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Colette Todd is an Instructor of Voice at Loyola University Chicago and the founder of Star Music Studio where she has been teaching voice privately for twenty years specializing in contemporary music methods, musical theater, and crossover to classical style. Ms. Todd also serves on the Executive Board of the Chicago Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS). Early in her career, she also established herself as a music teacher and choral director in the public schools, teaching for over a decade at both the elementary and high school levels. Since then she has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Music Education at Carthage College, and was the founding director of the Carthage College Vocal Jazz Ensemble at Carthage College in Kenosha, WI. Ms. Todd has also taught music within the Theatre Conservatory of the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in Chicago. Ms. Todd received her own training at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she received a Bachelor of Music Education degree with High Honors, and a Master of Music Education degree from VanderCook College of Music in Chicago. |
Onstage, Ms. Todd has garnered critical acclaim and three Joseph Jefferson Awards highlighting her wide dramatic range as Diana in Next to Normal, Clara in Passion, and Angela in Honky Tonk Angels. She has performed all across Chicagoland including Writers Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Marriott Theatre, Drury Lane Oakbrook Theater, Theater at the Center, Mercury Theatre Chicago, Light Opera Works, Boho Theater, Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre, Fox Valley Repertory Theater, and Williams Street Rep.
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