{"id":382,"date":"2015-05-02T18:59:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T22:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/?p=382"},"modified":"2025-03-10T13:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:33:16","slug":"samantha-berardesca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/samantha-berardesca\/","title":{"rendered":"Samantha Berardesca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"385\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/samantha-berardesca-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Samantha-Berardesca.png?fit=375%2C503&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"375,503\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Samantha Berardesca\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Samantha-Berardesca.png?fit=224%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Samantha-Berardesca.png?fit=375%2C503&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Samantha-Berardesca-224x300.png?resize=224%2C300\" alt=\"Samantha Berardesca\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Samantha-Berardesca.png?resize=224%2C300&amp;ssl=1 224w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Samantha-Berardesca.png?w=375&amp;ssl=1 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/>Samantha Berardesca (BA Voice, Dalhousie; MA Music Education, Columbia University; Speech-Language Pathologist candidate, Dalhousie) is an avid music educator with a passion for vocal pedagogy &amp; voice instruction. She has worked as an Applied Voice teacher at TC, Columbia University; at several conservatories in New York and Ontario; as Master Voice teacher at the Canadian Dance Company; and at her private voice studio downtown Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Addison Brasil is a Canadian actor (AEA), dancer, educator, adjudicator and choreographer. Currently residing in LA, Addison has performed throughout the US (Beauty and The Beast (Disney), West Side Story, Ann Reinking\u2019s Piano Keys and multiple productions across Asia (Royal Caribbean). He also contributed to Theatre20&#8217;s creative team for the inaugural production of Bloodless: The Trial of Burke and Hare.\u00a0These ESA alumni partnered to create the PrePro Artist Collective, a triple threat program that prepares young artists for real-life industry needs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:preprocollective@gmail.com\">Email Samantha<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.preproartistcollective.com\" target=\"_blank\">PrePro Artist Collective website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ScUR8FpIlk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samantha Berardesca (BA Voice, Dalhousie; MA Music Education, Columbia University; Speech-Language Pathologist candidate, Dalhousie) is an avid music educator with a passion for vocal pedagogy &amp; voice instruction. She has worked as an Applied Voice teacher at TC, Columbia University; at several conservatories in New York and Ontario; as Master Voice teacher at the Canadian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[17,53,52],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-music-theatre","tag-17","tag-music-educator","tag-voice-teacher"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Samantha-Berardesca.png?fit=375%2C503&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8vWl8-6a","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":388,"url":"https:\/\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/addison-brasil\/","url_meta":{"origin":382,"position":0},"title":"Addison Brasil","author":"maestra","date":"May 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Actor, Model, Choreographer, Teacher & Philanthropist \u00a0Currently residing in Los Angeles as a recipient of the O1 Artist visa. 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