Voice Lessons

Deborah Heagen received her BFA in Theater with a concentration in acting from Five Towns College before working regionally (Centenary Stage Company’s A Christmas Carol (Sally Anderson); Dix Hills PAC’s Thoroughly Modern Millie (Mrs. Meers); Allegro Theatre’s NJ premiere of Urinetown: The Musical (Hope Cladwell)), Off-Off Broadway (45th St Theater’s Happy Hour), and in NYC cabarets including Tim Realbuto’s Because I Can- Parts 2 and 3 (Triad Theater) and A Tribute to Jeanine Tesori at Feinstein’s 54 Below.

Deb also provided the voices for an alien and a ghost in the SAT prep game, The Verbal Edge. In addition, she played the lead role in an after school special for Turkish television called The Wisdom Tree. Deb is a Board Certified Music Therapist and enjoys working with her pediatric patients. In addition to teaching, She earned her Masters Degree from Drexel University in Music Therapy.

Deb has been teaching voice, acting for voice, and music to children and teens for over twelve years. Her students have gone on to top Universities for Musical Theatre and Voice, won national and international vocal competitions and scholarship pageants, been signed to professional representation, and continue to book professional work in FIlm, TV, Stage and Commercial work.

Soprano Diana DiMarzio has appeared on theatrical and concert hall stages around the world. She was recently seen as Annie Dummermut on Broadway in The Visit opposite Chita Rivera and the late Roger Rees as well as in the final Broadway musical of The VIsit written by the Tony-winning team of Kander and Ebb, with a book by Terrance McNally, garnered 5 Tony Award Nominations.

She also starred on Broadway as the Beggar Woman opposite Patti LuPone in the critically acclaimed, Tony Award-winning revival of Sweeney Todd directed by Tony Award winner, John Doyle. Her performance was widely recognized. Opera News declared “DiMarzio does impressive instantaneous transitions between vulgar and soulful” and Variety also confirmed that “Diana DiMarzio has striking moments as the Beggar Woman”.

Her greatest personal acclaim came from Stephen Sondheim when he thanked her for “singing the role as I originally had intended!” She reprised the role across the country in the first national tour, playing such theaters as San Francisco’s ACT and the Ahmanson in LA, again to winning notices. She was seen as the Beggar Woman last fall in the Michigan Opera’s production of Sweeney Todd as well as a production with the Virginia Opera and was invited to Munich, Germany for the 60th Anniversary Jubilee concert with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester under the baton of Ulf Schirmer.
Following her Broadway appearance, composer Adam Guettel cast Diana as Signora Naccarelli in the first national tour of his Tony Award-winning musical The Light in the Piazza, directed by Tony Award winner, Bartlett Sher and produced by Lincoln Center. She had the opportunity to work with John Doyle again in his newly conceived production of Ten Cents a Dance, making its American premier at the prestigious Williamstown Theater Festival and later at the McCarter Theater.

Recent stage engagements include the role of Aldonza in the national touring production of Man of La Mancha, with Jack Jones; the mother in the National Tour of Evita, directed by Michael Grandage; as Aunt Eller in Oklahoma with the Charlottesville Opera and was recently seen as Madame Giry in the American Premiere National touring production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies directed by Simone Phillips. Orchestral and concert engagements include performances at Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, guest soloist with the Aegean Chamber Orchestra at Ephesus in Turkey and soloist with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Richmond Symphony and Westfield Symphony.

She has appeared on the television show The Sopranos and was cast by Sidney Lumet in his film, Find Me Guilty starring Vin Diesel. She was awarded a grant by the National Italian American Foundation to produce her concert entitled Cinema Italiano, which she debuted at Symphony Space in New York City. Diana holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Vocal Performance from Carnegie-Mellon University and currently resides in New York City. www.dianadimarzio.com @dimarziodiana

Cameron Richardson-Eames is an award-winning British pianist and tenor, based in London and New York. He is a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge University, the Royal Academy of Music in London, and a former US-UK Fulbright Scholar at The Juilliard School where he studied under Dr Brian Zeger, Margo Garrett, and JJ Penna, and held the Irene Diamond Fellowship, the Samuel Sanders Award for collaborative piano, and the Arthur Gold, Robert Fizdale, and George H Gangwere Scholarships.

At Cambridge he was a Choral Scholar and graduated with high First Class Honours, a Senior Academic Scholarship, Isaac Newton Scholarship, Research Scholarship, the Edith Leigh Memorial Prize for piano, as well as the inaugural postgraduate scholarship for voice, before going on to serve three years on the Cambridge University Music Faculty, teaching Dissertation Studies and Keyboard Harmony. At the Royal Academy of Music, he was awarded the Major Von Someron Godfrey Award for accompanists, Dame Ruth Railton Prize for chamber music, Katie Thomas Memorial Award for outstanding achievement, and the honorary Diploma of the Royal Academy of Music for outstanding postgraduate performance. He won the Accompanist Prizes in the Dame Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition, and the Sidney Sussex Lieder Competition.

Cameron trained as a joint first-study singer and has performed with the Grammy-nominated groups Polyphony (Stephen Layton, voted second-best choir in the world by Gramophone magazine) and The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, with whom he recorded fourteen CDs for the Hyperion record label, winning many international awards such as BBC Music Magazine Record of the Year, and Gramophone Magazine Album of the Year. He appears as a tenor soloist on the Christmas album ‘Yulefest’ (Hyperion), about which the Los Angeles Times wrote ‘if you’re not touched by tenor Cameron Richardson-Eames, you have Grinch in your soul’. He has also worked as a session singer at Abbey Road Studios, appearing on film soundtracks.

He studied voice with Professor Susan McCulloch (Guildhall School of Music and Drama), and teaches voice with private practices in New York and Los Angeles, with current students appearing in many Broadway shows (including Matilda, Frozen, School of Rock, Kinky Boots, The Ferryman), world tours (Kinky Boots, Fun Home), television series (Billions), commercials (Nissan, JetBlue, RiteAid, Hilton Hotels) and feature films (Avatar).

Cameron is a Fellow of Trinity College London in piano performance, adjunct faculty at New York University, a staff pianist at The Juilliard School and has worked as a vocal coach to the Juilliard School pre-college division.