Guides: Music Career Resources @ Pitt: Vocal Performance

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Vocal Auditions

Tips for Singers by Carolyn Wilkins; Jonathan Feist (Editor)
Call Number: MT893 W55 2008
The Singer's Companion by Sharon L. Stohrer
Call Number: MT820 S856 2006
The Handbook for Working Singers by Roma Waterman
Call Number: MT893 W38 2008

Opera and Classical Vocal Performance

National Opera Center for America - Career Guide for Opera
Includes sample cover letters/resumes, tips for role preparation, and many more articles covering a wide variety of topics.

The Opera Singer's Career Guide: Understanding the European Fach System by Pearl Yeadon McGinnis
Call Number: ML3795 M354 2010
Performing Life by Sharon Mabry
Call Number: ML3795 M174 2012

Popular Performance

Make Me a Star by Anastasia Brown; Brian Mansfield (As told to)
Call Number: ML3795 B827 2008

Musicals and Theater

So You Want to Be in Musicals? by Ruthie Henshall; Daniel Bowling (As told to)
Call Number: ML3795 H46 2012
Rock the Audition by Sheri Sanders
Call Number: MT956 S35 2011
Musical Scene Study: The Musicals of Rodgers & Hammerstein by Tom Briggs (Editor)
Call Number: MT956 R632 2007
Musical Theatre Auditions and Casting by Neil Rutherford
Call Number: MT956 .R884 2012
Get the Callback by Jonathan Flom
Call Number: MT956 F56 2009