BIOGRAPHY
Kathleen Kernohan has been a professional singer, actress, harpist and recording artist for over 25 years. She has performed in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Vancouver, Seattle, the Caribbean, San Francisco, and on national tours. She toured with Robert Goulet in his night club act and in "Carousel" and also performed at the Seattle Repertory Theater, ACT, Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera, Pasadena Playhouse, Utah Shakespearean Festival and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. She has performed for or with Michael Douglas, Bernadette Peters, Don Ho, Jean Stapleton, Grocho Marx, Robert Goulet, Manhatten Transfer, Helen Reddy, and Gordon MacRae. Her recordings include "The Quite Land of Erin"--- Irish Songs with Celtic Harp.
She is a certified teacher of the world famous Speech Level Singing technique developed by maestro Seth Riggs. Kathleen studied as a voice student with Seth for 9 years until he encouraged her to become a teacher herself. She was honored, especially since SLS is by far the best technique she has ever come across. Speech Level Singing enables people to sing with a relaxed and effortless way that they speak. It has been used with great success by over 120 Grammy winners including such notables as Josh Groban, Natalie Cole, Stevie Wonder, David Archuleta (American Idol), Cher, Madonna, Bernadette Peters, Jenifer Lopez, Michael Bolton, Jesse McCartney, four winners of the Metropolitan Opera Award, and many, many other successful singers. Since Speech Level Singing is a technique,a foundation for singing, it can therefore be used for any style---pop, musical theater, jazz, country, rock, opera, gospel. In fact it is used by such diverse styles as singers Ray Charles to Phil Webb (principal Metropolitan lyric tenor) SLS enables singers to perform in any style with freedom and flexibility and with voices that remain healthy throughout a lifetime of singing.
EDUCATION
Seth Riggs 12 years
Univ. of Washington, BA in Music and Drama (Cum Laude)
Univ. of Calif, Santa Barbara
Calif. Lutheran Univ. (Post Grad in Education)
Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts
Neighborhood Playhouse, NYC
Private--Barbara Cook, Seth Riggs, Stella Adler, Daryl Hickman, Sandford Meisner, etc.
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