Lovejoy Choirs

Private voice lessons will be given through the Lovejoy Choral Department during class time, or other arranged time. Class time will be given on a first-come, first-serve basis.
There will be one 23-minute lesson per week.
The cost is twenty dollars per lesson.
Monthly payments in the form of check or money order are due to the lesson teacher at the beginning of each month. This will usually be $80.

Participate in the solo/ensemble event.
Attend recitals scheduled during the year.
Come to the lesson prepared, with a cooperative and respectful attitude.
Bring all assigned materials to each lesson.
Recommended practice time is twenty minutes per day, five days per week. More time may be necessary for those preparing for auditions or tryouts.

Students should make voice lessons a long-term commitment. (Ideally, for the entire school year)
If an unavoidable situation arises making it impossible to continue lessons, the student is expected to finish the lessons for the month that is paid for (no refunds).
If expectations are not met, the teacher may choose to discontinue lessons after finishing the month that is paid for.

If a student knows they will be absent, they should notify their teacher by phone. Failure to notify the teacher will result in default of the lesson.
Excused absences will be made up per the teacher’s schedule.
If a teacher cannot make up a lesson, they may elect to credit the lesson back.
In the event the teacher must be absent, notification will be made and lessons made up at the earliest possible time.

Students who are planning to audition for All-Region Choir should learn their music as soon as possible as there will be limited time when lessons begin. Students should learn notes and music before coming to the lesson so that lesson time can be spent on musicality, phrasing, and vocal technique. Please see choir directors for more information on All-Region.

Mezzo Soprano Jessie Hinkle received a Bachelor’s Degree of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of North Texas and her Master’s Degree of Music in Operatic Vocal Performance from the prestigious Manhattan School of Music in New York City. After graduating, Ms. Hinkle lived in New York for many years and performed on some of the world’s most respected opera stages, concert halls and in the 2003 Broadway production of Puccini’s La Boheme, produced and directed by the legendary film director Baz Luhrmann (“The Great Gatsby, “Moulin Rouge” & “Romeo + Juliet”). She is equally at home in the musical theater repertoire having performed such roles as Anita in West Side Story and Petra in Sondheim’s A Little Night Music to great audience acclaim. Ms. Hinkle has studied and coached with some of the opera world’s most esteemed and influential teachers and singers and brings to her students the techniques and body of knowledge that comes from working with many of the greatest operatic figures of the 20th and 21st Centuries.

Patricia Vigil, Coloratura Soprano
From Verdi’s innocent yet strong-willed Gilda, to Mozart’s ferocious Queen of the Night, to Strauss’s zany and resourceful Adele, Patricia displays versatility, dramatic skill, and effortless coloratura. A native of Colorado now residing in Denton, Ms. Vigil has sung throughout the United States with such companies as Opera Company of Philadelphia, Intermountain Opera, The New Sigmund Romberg Orchestra, Asheville Lyric Opera, Concert Opera of New Jersey, Ridge Light Opera, Atlantic Coast Opera Festival, Lancaster Opera Company, Utah Festival Opera, Opera Delaware, Baton Rouge Opera, Opera Iowa, Des Moines Metro Opera, Sarasota Opera, Opera Southwest, Cleveland Opera on Tour, and Opera Theater of Philadelphia. Her roles include: Gilda in Rigoletto, Norina in Don Pasquale, Susanna and Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro, Olympia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Fire in L’énfant et les Sortileges, Oscar in Un Ballo in Maschera, Madame Goldentrill and Miss Silverpeal in The Impresario, Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Héro in Beatrice and Benedict, and Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute. Ms. Vigil is a recipient of the prestigious Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshana Foundation, as well as winner of the Diamond Award at the Vera Scammon International Voice Competition. Patricia Vigil recently completed her DMA at Temple University, where she studied with David Arnold.