Maura Sharkey-PrymaMaura Sharkey Pryma (she/her) has enjoyed teaching voice and performance artistry to young and mature singers for over 25 years. Maura holds a position as a sessional instructor at MacEwan University's Theatre Arts Program, and teaches privately in-person and online from Edmonton, Canada. Besides teaching privately, she instructs a class called Learn English Through Singing The Sharkey Method™, an in-person and online 11-week course with a focus of learning English as an additional language and English pronunciation through contemporary songs.
With a cross-training studio that combines traditional pedagogy with 21st century musical theatre singing pedagogy, Maura strives to remove fear by taking risks and making noises, and cultivating greater awareness of physical sensations. She trains and mentors students in musical theatre, classical, contemporary commercial music, song interpretation, breathing and vocal techniques, basic physiology, aspects of voice and speech, and acting training. In addition to helping singers select music and prepare for auditions, performances and examinations, her main focus is ensuring the voice is functioning as it should for optimal vocal ease, quality and longevity, and advocating for efficient vocal production.
- Location: Downtown Edmonton & North West Edmonton
- Online lessons