Sariah Pinick - Voice

Sariah Pinick, Instructor of Voice, has been teaching at Music/Arts Institute® and Blue River Community College since 2000. She has also taught at the Kansas City Kansas Community College, Northland Cathedral School of Music and the University of Missouri Community Music Program. Sariah completed a Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance Magna Cum Laude in 2000 from the University of Missouri and a Master of Arts degree in Music from the Conservatory of Music - University of Missouri, Kansas City in 2003. While at the Conservatory, she focused her studies on Voice Pedagogy and centered her thesis on the transformation of Expressionism during World War I through Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck. Sariah has studied with Jo Ella Todd and Un Chong Christopher and has performed in master classes for Richard Miller, Evelyn Lear and Paul Kiesgen.

Sariah is active in the National Association of Teachers of Singing and Missouri Music Educator's Association. She is an active member of the Kansas City Alumnae Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota, a professional music fraternity for women and has served as Vice-President of Membership and Chairwoman of Alumnai Projects.

The vocal technique taught in her voice studio is based on the Italian technique of appoggio breathing and the bel canto ideal, or what she prefers to define as healthy singing. This, coupled with the balance of breathing technique, diction and musicality assures the student longevity, flexibility and beauty of the voice. Her students have earned superior ratings at competitions at the District and State level and many have gone on to earn music scholarships at the collegiate level. They have been featured in numerous musical theatre and opera productions in the Kansas City Metro area.

Ms. Pinick has adjudicated vocal competitions for the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Sigma Alpha Iota and American Kids, Inc. Sariah was a recent Semi-Finalist for the Center for Contemporary Opera Opera Singers Competition in New York. She is frequently showcased with the Metropolitan Choral of Kansas City and has recently been the featured soprano soloist in Mozart's Coronation Mass at the Kansas City Kansas Community College's Master Works Concert. Sariah sings in churches throughout the Metro area and has commissioned a vocal work by Seattle composer Cristopher Ewing to set the poetry of Dorothy Parker and eagerly awaits its premiere.