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HOUSE OF SONG GEELONG

Please email:
​[email protected] for online vocal sessions.



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Marcia offers online singing lessons or songwriting sessions for individuals or groups.
An online 
group vocal masterclass session is also available. 

Sharing songs, harmony, vocal yoga and sound bath for vocal strength and building your voice.

Vocal Workshop PD with Marcia Howard. Online or at 
 House of Song, Geelong
For more information please email:[email protected]
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House of Song, Geelong Presents:​
Professional Development, 'Build Your Voice' Workshops with Marcia Howard. 

This session is suitable for audience members, singers with no prior experience including classroom teachers, public speakers, actors, music educators, students and anyone who relies on their voice professionally or just wants to sing and learn how to project and use their voice.


​Participants will receive a certificate verifying completion and attendance of the training workshop.
Completing the course teachers will contribute two hours of PD addressing the standards as listed from the Australian Professional Standards for teachers towards maintaining proficient teacher registration in Victoria. Teachers who complete the modules / professional development will understand that this learning will assist in addressing the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. 
(A Certificate for two hours Professional Development Accreditation can be issued to each vocalist by request).

Marcia is a composer and a music educator. She is currently a casual lecturer in Music Education at Deakin University and has taught Vocal Masterclasses as a part of the Music Performance Degree at Collarts in Melbourne. She has been a Performing Arts specialist at primary and secondary school level for over twenty years as well as a performer on the world stage for over thirty years.
Enquiries email: [email protected]
VIT registered.


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Marcia Howard on the Voice 2016.
Team Delta!


"In my 5 years as Casting & Music Producer on The Voice Australia, I've come across thousands of Australian singers, and Marcia Howard is among the finest of them all. Her musicality, connection and depth of experience are beyond comparison. It was an absolute pleasure and delight to be able to meet, work with and learn from Marcia during her time on The Voice Season 5."
Rachel Rigg, Music Producer, The Voice, Season 5, 2016.


"The PD, Build Your Voice Workshop at House of Song, Belmont, Geelong was really enjoyable. I really learnt a lot about singing at the session and we sang songs together. At the end of the session I received my own individual House of Song PD certificate. We had teachers, public speakers and singers at the PD. A great mix"! Penny Martin
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"Marcia's voice workshop was great. Pre-service teachers need to learn to use and care for one of their most important teaching tools – their voice. The Victorian Department of Education and Training recognises that voice care is essential to teachers’ professional and personal health and wellbeing. However, voice projection and protection is sometimes a neglected aspect of teachers’ professional learning. This workshop enables pre-service teachers to practise using their voice in different ways, understand how the voice works and how to care for it and learn how to use the voice and non-verbal communication to develop a safe and supportive learning environment (AITSL Standard 4). It does this in a fun and interactive way."
Rebecca Cairns, Deakin University, MALT Education Lecturer. 
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​​'’From the well where the song is sprung,
the land and the sea were sung
and the sunset it was pink 
and I saw the bluest water and the blackest stones
It was the place where I was given my name,
My country, Nunagini, Nangala,
Two sisters dreaming place.”
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What the Session's Include
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MEd Monash University (Research Masters. Belonging Through Song).
Dip T. ACU, 
Cert IV Music, VIT registered. Estill Vocal Method, level 1 & 2. Grade 6 Voice, A.M.E.B. Grade 5 piano, Trinity College, London.
Experience
Vocal masterclass 
Vocal Yoga classes
​Live performance sound and visual presentation classes.
Preparing a stage plan.
Using 'pro tools' software recording for live work and songwriting process.
Music publishing, protecting coyright.

The Business of Music and putting on a show and getting an audience, promotion and publicity.
​Harmony. Reading music and improvisation of parts for live and recorded performance.
Classroom music teacher year prep-12.
​Classroom drama teacher, year prep to Year 11.
Voice lessons, piano and guitar lessons
Director of school musical productions
Choir Director
Music Theory.
Deakin University, Geelong and Warrnambool, Music Education lecturer.
Vocal Masterclasses, Collarts Melbourne, Music Performance Degree students.
Judge Battle of The Bands.
Kool Schools.
Rock Eisteddfods
Eisteddfod and school choir director and piano accompanist.
​Vocal Director for school musicals and piano accompanist.
Songwriting workshops, secondary & tertiary students.
Working with indigenous artists in an educational setting creating pedagogy with music song dance and story.
Vocal workshops using sheet music, improvisation, harmony and singing in local languages. Festivals and concerts.
Creating methodology and course content using relevant pedagogy for performing arts content, primary, secondary and tertiary.
VET music teacher, Year 11.

Performing Arts Teaching.

John Pujujangka Pirin School, Mulan, Great Sandy Desert West Australia. 1991.
Bellarine Peninsula Schools 1997-2001. 2015-2018.
Institute of Korri Education, Deakin Uni Geelong (1998).
Emmanuel College, secondary school, Warrnambool (2005-2014)
St Joseph's primary school, Warrnambool (2002-2005).
Caulfield Grammar Wheelers Hill, 2018 (Songwriting workshops, Year 8).
Northern Bay College Corio, Geelong (Performing Arts. 2017).
Collarts, Music Performance Degree, Melbourne (2015-2018) Music Education.
Deakin University, Geelong & Warrnambool ( 2017-2018). Music Education.

Aspire Geelong. Indigenous music composition workshops (2018).
Kaleidescope, soundscape, movement and indigenous story workshops with primary schools, Blakiston Theatre, Geelong Performing Arts Centre (2018).
St Leonards Primary School. Musical Director, 'Cinders' (2018).
Primary School Teachers voice care workshop (Deakin Uni 2017).








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"Dear Marcia,
Cinders was amazing and I want to say a big thank you for directing it. Thank you for working with the rest of the staff throughout the term to develop the wonderful performance by our kids that we saw last night. 
Your expertise and clear view of what needed to be done to ensure that every child felt supported and happy while performing was a key to our success. To be able to achieve what we did in one term was astounding and we have all learnt so much from you – children and adults.
There has been a wonderful buzz in the school today and many positive comments and messages of congratulations from parents as well as from kids and teachers. It has been a pleasure to work with you Marcia.
Thanks again and best wishes".

Jenny Cowburn, Principal St Leonards Primary School (2018).
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