​Sarah Mae Lagasca is an active singer, music educator, and voice coach in her hometown of New York City.  She is a proud public school music teacher and also maintains a private voice studio, specializing in musical theater and contemporary performance. In addition to regularly performing at venues around the city, she has prepared vocalists and choral ensembles for sold out performances at Terminal 5, Music Hall of Williamsburg, and The Governor's Ball Music Festival. She currently teaches at Brooklyn High School of the Arts where she is working to develop the school's new Contemporary Voice and Recorded Vocal Music Program.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2016 - PRESENT
Vocal Music & Musical Theater Teacher​
​​BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
Director of BHSA Women’s Choir and Freshman Choir. Music director and vocal director for annual school musical. Classes include choir, contemporary vocal technique, music theory, and introduction to guitar.
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​2017
Vocal Faculty
​​WESTMINSTER COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
Contemporary Vocal Institute for High School summer program. Responsibilities include group lessons in pop and jazz technique, sectional rehearsals for the vocal jazz group, elective classes in songwriting and improvisation, and performance master classes
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2014 - 2016
Choral Director & Vocal Music Teacher
LAGUARDIA ARTS HIGH SCHOOL
Full time Choral Director/Voice Teacher for Vocal Music Department. Director of the LaGuardia Girls Chorus and Freshman Chorus. Classes included: Introduction to Sight Singing for Vocal Majors, Freshman Class Voice (Italian Art Song & German Lieder), and Sophomore Class Voice (French & English Art Song).
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EDUCATION

2013
BM Music Education
WESTMINSTER CHOIR COLLEGE
Coursework in elementary and secondary general music education, conducting, guitar and recorder, instrumental methods, music theory, critical pedagogy in music education, educational and adolescent psychology, solo voice, piano, technology in the music classroom, music for special education students, and assessment. Alto in Westminster Williamson Voices. 
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CHORAL PERFORMANCES

CONTACT

For more information regarding guest teaching,
conducting, voice lessons, or singing engagements
sarahmaelagasca@gmail.com