GOTTA SING??? GOTTA BREATHE??? GOTTA SPEAK???
CAMI CAN HELP!!!
CAMI THOMPSON is now accepting new students in the Bay Area and Northern Nevada.
Cami can help you discover your strongest, healthiest, and most expressive voice! Strengthen, expand, increase the power, range, and emotion of your song!
Cami has been teaching and coaching singers for over 25 years, and can help you prepare for auditions, shows, concerts, club dates, personal and professional goals, and can coach in technique, breath work, jazz improvisation, interpretation and presentation, and can instruct in basic musical knowledge like piano, transcription, and songwriting.
In San Francisco, Miss Thompson also has a digital recording studio with equipment for making demos, audition CDs, and recorded applications for college or competitions.
* Develop correct, powerful BREATHING from the core of your diaphragm
* Increase your vocal RANGE, DYNAMICS and CONTROL
* Improve the QUALITY, TONE AND EXPRESSION of your voice
* Discover your OWN UNIQUE SOUND and make it more musical
* Get ADVICE AND KNOW-HOW on the opportunities in the MUSIC BUSINESS
* Learn techniques to REDUCE STRESS onstage, at auditions, in school
* Learn MICROPHONE TECHNIQUES for studio work and live performance
* Learn to re-acquaint yourself with your ARTISTIC CREATIVE SELF!
* Gain CONFIDENCE in all that you do — singing, speaking, living!
* Gain SELF AWARENESS, SELF-EXPRESSION AND SELF-ESTEEM
* Get help, SONGWRITERS, with your writing and compositions
* RECORD YOUR OWN DEMO in a digital recording studio with ProTools (San Francisco)
* Learn how to create PROFESSIONAL MUSIC BOOKS for band, choir, lyrics, shows
CAMI THOMPSON is a professional singer, songwriter, arranger, teacher, band leader, recording artist and producer with over 30 years professional experience on stage in nightclubs, concert halls, cabarets, jazz spots and theaters around the world. She is a gifted and trained vocalist and musician in jazz, classical, opera, theatrical, Broadway, rock and pop music, and has successfully taught hundreds of students privately and in clinics for over 25 years throughout the western US and Europe.
RATES:
* Private lessons = $50/hour
* 5 one-hour lessons package = $225 ($45 per lesson = save $25)
* 10 one-hour lessons package = $430 ($43 per lessons = save $70.00)
* 15 one-hour lessons package = $615.00 ($41 per lesson = save $135.00)
LOCATIONS:
SAN FRANCISCO = Lessons take place in Cami's private, safe, comfortable studio overlooking the city of San Francisco near the top of Twin Peaks.
RENO: Lessons take place in the family home in SW Reno, overlooking a garden and expansive city views.
RECORDINGS/PRACTICE:
Cami encourages students to record the lessons and practice daily to develop powerful breath control and vocal strength. Students are welcome to record the lesson with their own device, or Cami will record the lesson on iPod, and then transfer the session to the computer and burn a CD on the spot.
CONTACT CAMI AT Cami@CamiThompson.com
In her VERY AFFORDABLE private lessons and clinics, Cami first guides the student through relaxation and stretching techniques to calm, connect, relax and energize the body. Then she teaches proper breathing exercises and techniques for a powerful, supported and healthy sound. Finally she shares her vocal techniques and singing exercises that have helped to create Cami's own powerful, dynamic, beautiful voice, and have helped hundreds of students create a strong, healthy voice they love, and love to share!
Special lessons can be designed for the student's specific needs: confidence, control, power, jazz style (scatting, phrasing, song selections) theatre auditions, American Idol auditions, college applications, weddings, family events - no dream is too small or too big!... Cami wants you to SING!
ABOUT CAMI: At 17, Cami was the youngest member of the renowned Nevada Opera Company, under the direction of Ted Puffer. At the University of Nevada-Reno, from 1976 until 1985, Cami studied classical voice for over 9 years with various teachers, as well as jazz/pop voice, musical theater, keyboards, percussion, theory, arranging, and recording engineering, while performing leading roles in stage shows, concerts, operas and theatrical productions, and playing keyboards and singing in rock, Top 40 and funk/soul bands.
At the age of 21, under the stress of working professionally in so many areas of music and attending classes, Cami developed vocal nodes, and underwent surgery to remove them. Through careful, patient speech and vocal therapy, Miss Thompson fully recovered her voice, and gained a greater respect for the vocal process, as well as a greater understanding of how to handle the stress of performing in public, the responsibility of staying healthy, and the need to practice and use proper technique in all styles of singing. Cami can be an excellent teacher for singers in crisis, as well as anyone with a true desire to sing and sing better!
Miss Thompson has been vocal director at the Nevada Repertory Theater Company, 2 large professional mainstage production shows at The Reno Hilton (now Grand Sierra Resort, Reno), and director of many of her own productions with Cami Thompson Music Company LLC. She sang for three years with the prestigious, twice Grammy-nominated, 12-voice a cappella group, the L.A. Jazz Choir. She has been an opening act for dozens of performers, including The Manhattan Transfer, Nancy Wilson, Dianne Reeves, George Shearing, Jon Hendricks, Lou Rawls, and many others. She has been the lead in over 15 professional musicals, most recently in 42nd Street Moon's "Girl Crazy" in San Francisco. Cami performs at jazz festivals and concerts across the country and in Europe as a guest artist as well as with her own groups. She has released 5 albums under her own name, and has recorded on dozens of recordings for other artists, also sometimes working as vocal arranger. Her recording of “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” (she sang all the parts) was featured recently for the opening dance sequence on FOX TV’s “So You Think You Can Dance.” Cami sings at night clubs, festivals, concerts, private parties and charity events around the West; you can hear her by visiting her website, www.camithompson.com, and listening to tracks from her 5 solo albums and several guests appearances.