Maura Sharkey-Pryma.
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With over 25 years of intensive training and experience, Maura Sharkey Pryma (she/her), the owner of The Sharkey Voice Studio and creator of Learn English The Sharkey Method™, gives you the best experience as a voice singing specialist, instructor, mentor, clinician and consultant.
Maura has enjoyed teaching voice and performance artistry to young and mature singers for over 25 years. After more than 15 years of teaching at MacEwan University's Conservatory of Music, Maura now holds a position as a sessional voice instructor at MacEwan University's Theatre Arts Program in Musical Theatre Performance, 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™ (LETS), an in-person and online 11-week course with a focus of learning English as an additional language and English pronunciation through contemporary songs. Maura began voice study at the University of Alberta, receiving a Bachelor of Music and Masters of Music in Vocal Performance. She continued her training at the Salzburg Mozarteum Sommerakademie and with Canadian opera training intensives, Opera NUOVA and The Opera Project. In 2019, she earned certification of completion of the Vocal Pedagogy Professional Workshop Course at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee. In 2021, Maura successfully completed Level 3 Somatic Voicework™ training with The LoVetri Institute through Baldwin Wallace University. To that end, Maura still studies voice regularly, attends workshops, maintains a physical practice, and works on her own performance in order to best serve her students. |
