Masterclass Clinicians + Application

Meet the Master Clinicians

Will Reynolds

Commercial Music & Musical Theatre

Will Reynolds is an award-winning theatre artist, writer, and educator devoted to spreading the belief that art is an act of service. He helps performers stop chasing approval and start creating from a place of truth and purpose.

As a composer-lyricist, Will won the 2018 Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Writing and was a songwriter for Central Park on Apple TV+. His musical The Violet Hour (written with Eric Price, featuring Jeremy Jordan, Santino Fontana, Erika Henningsen, Solea Pfeiffer, and Brandon Uranowitz) has been heard by millions of listeners worldwide and was named 2022 Cast Album of the Year by The Broadway Radio Show. His song "Tavern” was recorded by 6-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald.

As a performer, Will has appeared in the national tour of Mamma Mia!, Daddy Long Legs Off-Broadway, the NYC revival of Sondheim’s Passion at Classic Stage Company, Tony Kushner's The Illusion at Signature Theatre, and regional productions at The Old Globe, The Fifth Avenue Theatre, Goodspeed, and Walnut Street Theatre.

Will has served on faculty at Pace University, CAP21/Molloy College, Hussian College, and Marymount Manhattan College, and has been a guest artist at Carnegie Mellon, Penn State, Roosevelt, and Manhattan School of Music. Through coaching, courses, group programs, and his Inner Circle, Will helps artists worldwide move past fear and perfectionism to create work that's bold, truthful, and grounded in Service.

Leah Hawkins

Opera & Classical Singers

A native of Philadelphia, soprano Leah Hawkins is the 2024 recipient of the Beverly Sills Artist Award from the Metropolitan Opera. The 2025-26 season brings a role and house debut as Madame Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmélites at The Dallas Opera, Serena in Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera, Tosca in her house debut at La Monnaie / De Munt in Brussels, and many exciting concerts and recitals.

She began the 2024-25 season in a lauded recital at the Park Avenue Armory, followed by several recital and concert appearances in New York City. She made an exciting role debut as Leonora in Il trovatore at the Met, and returned to both Arizona Opera for her acclaimed role debut as Aida, and the Philadelphia Orchestra for Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. She began the 2023-24 season in Verdi's Messa da Requiem and X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X at the Metropolitan Opera, reprised her roles in X at Seattle Opera, and debuted as Giorgetta in Il Tabarro at Dutch National Opera. She had a series of exciting role and house debuts in the 2022-23 season, beginning the season as the Foreign Princess in Rusalka at Pittsburgh Opera, followed by Ariadne auf Naxos at Arizona Opera, Tosca at Opera Memphis and Santa Fe Opera, and Musetta in La bohème at the Metropolitan Opera.

The winner of the 2023 Marian Anderson Award, a 2022 Richard Tucker Career Grant, and the 2021 Women in Classical Music Career Development Award, nominated by Renée Fleming, she recently presented a recital at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, sang La bohème with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Verdi's Messa da Requiem with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel, and appeared at Bayerische Staatsoper and Opéra national de Paris. 

Masterclass Application

Teachers are only able to submit 1 student per masterclass. Application Deadline is 2/20 at Midnight. Teachers and applicants will be informed if they will be singing in the class or not between 2/23-2/27 Each Clinician will work with 6 students and 2 alternates.

The fee to participate is $25 and payable directly to the pianist. Please contact Rebecca Pieper (RebeccaSings78@gmail.com) if the fee is not possible for the student.

This form is to be filled out by teachers only