Projects

Regina maintains a diverse career as a performer, a voice teacher/dramatic coach, clinician for high school and college voice programs, Artistic Director of a workshop series for young artists, and creator and administrator of a website for private music teachers and music students. Check out the links below.

The Zona Studio

Voice Teacher/Dramatic Coach/Director

With over 25 years experience, Dr. Zona has taught voice and opera in universities across the country including the University of Minnesota Duluth, Shorter College in Rome, Georgia and Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. She teaches voice at all levels from beginning to advanced teaching both classical voice and musical theatre styles. Her students have gone on to sing in opera companies around the world and Broadway national tours and regional theatres across the United States. She currently maintains a teaching studio in Yonkers, New York and Manhattan.

Dr. Zona is also a critically acclaimed director of opera and musical theatre. She was the Opera Program Director at the University of Minnesota Duluth where she directed 5 operas in four years including Hansel and Gretel, Falstaff and Cosi fan tutte. She was also the Artistic Director of the Sieur DuLuth Opera Training Program from 2008 to 2010.

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Mission: Artistic Performance

Artistic Director

One of Dr. Zona's greatest passions is working with young artists who are on the professional track and making that important transition from being a student to becoming a true artist. The M.A.P. Program consists of two intensive workshops - one for opera artists and one for musical theatre performers - held twice a year in New York. Classes, mock auditions, questions/answer sessions and individual consultations are led by prominent artistic directors, agents, coaches, conductors and choreographers. Topics that will be covered include:

Audition Techniques – repertoire, presentation, how to show off your strengths and who you are in the confines of one aria or 16 bars

Career Planning – goal setting, marketing, networking, setting yourself up as a business

Total Artistic Preparation –how to go beyond just learning the words and music in order to create believable characters, truly communicate emotion through the music and take risks, discover your unique gifts as a performer and how to present them so that you get noticed

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Music Lessons Resource

Creator/Administrator

Dr. Zona is the creator and administrator of Music Lessons Resource, an online community meant to serve private music teachers and current or prospective music students where we share helpful information, reviews of goods and services, and links that promote the teaching or study of music.