Brenda McDooling Duce

Name:	Brenda McDooling Duce
Location:	Wasaga Beach Canada L9Z 0C6
Contact:	Starbound Studios Send Brenda McDooling Duce a message

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Professional Profile
Brenda McDooling Duce is an established Independent Music Professional. As Music Director and Musician, Broadway Musical Theatre Direction, Performance and Orchestration credits include Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Nunsense, Sweet Charity, Two By Two, Kiss Me Kate, The Pajama Game, Crazy For You, Les Miserables, Me And My Girl, Anything Goes, The King And I, Oklahoma, Guys And Dolls, The Boy Friend, No, No Nanette, Bye Bye Birdie, and the Operetta Tom Sawyer.

As Owner of Starbound Studios, Ms. McDooling is a signature performing artist in the Firestarter Piano Lounge at Casino Rama. She has held the positions of Senior Piano Instructor and Consultant for The Melody In Me Academy Of Music And Performing Arts (formerly Cingolani Academy Of Music And Performing Arts), Music Director for South Simcoe Theatre and Orangeville Music Theatre, and has been a guest artist for Theatre Orangeville. She enjoys a full-time schedule of accompanying, adjudicating, consulting, directing, mentoring, performing, recording and teaching.

Ms. McDooling has worked with Actors, Artistic Directors, Choreographers, Dancers, Entertainers, Playwrights, Producers and Singers from the ACT-CO Festival, Barrie Jazz & Blues Festival, Calgary Winter Olympics, Casino Rama, Catherine Faint Entertainment Incorporated, Charlottetown Festival, Cingolani Academy Of Music & Performing Arts, Deerhurst Inn, Firestarter Lounge, Hockley Valley Centre Of The Arts, J. C. Dance Troupe, Joy Of Performing Arts Academy, Northern River Arts & Entertainment, Orangeville Music Theatre, Roland & Romaine Productions, South Simcoe Theatre, Stage West, Stratford Festival, The Melody In Me Academy Of Music & Performing Arts, Theatre Orangeville, Toronto Sky Dome, Toronto Smile Theatre, 3SG Talent Management, and has accompanied lead soloists of the Canadian Opera Company and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Brenda is certified by the National Ballet School in advanced piano accompaniment for dance, the Royal Conservatory Of Music in advanced classical piano performance and theory, holds Teaching diplomas from the Royal Conservatory Of Music (classical) and the Technics Music Academy (pop keyboard), is a member of the Ontario Registered Music Teachers’ Association (ORMTA), the Canadian Federation Of Music Teachers’ Association (CFMTA), the Georgian Triangle Music Teachers’ Association and has been serving the community since 1976.

{Updated 01/28/2015}

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Orchestral Playing, Session Work, Solo Performance