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ELISE AS A TEACHER:

Elise Behunin graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Brigham Young University in 2012 and is a voice teacher in Fort Collins, Colorado. She has been actively working with vocal students in solo and group settings for more than a decade. Click here for information about voice lessons. She is married to a piano accompanist, Matthew, and has two young boys. 

Elise also teaches beginning violin and has developed her own violin primer, Super Strings, for young students. The violin method melds traditional violin approaches with fun, child-focused activities.

​​Elise's propensity for the stratospheric vocal gymnastics of a coloratura soprano was evident from the age of two when she sang along with her mother's flute. These vocalizations prepared her for such roles as Mabel from the Pirates of Penzance, where her voice was described as "lovely enough to melt any pirate's heart" (Standard Examiner, Ogden, 2007). She is especially passionate about French opera, having lived and studied in Paris for half a year and later working for a year and a half as a volunteer for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Belgium; there she was able to gain a love for cheese and chocolate as well as perform in choirs and as a soprano soloist.

RESUME

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Music, Vocal Performance
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, 2012

COACHING AND CHORAL EXPERIENCE

Voice, violin teacher and vocal coach, 2003—Present
Choir Director, Local and Regional Church Choirs, 2007, 2010-2011, 
2016—2017
Vocal Coach for Public Speaking, Phoenix AZ, 2014—2015
Children’s Singing Director, Local church programs, 2011—2013

​PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE

Soprano Soloist
LIGHT THE WORLD, Regional Choir Concert, Ft. Lauderdale FL

Titania, Midsummer Night's Dream the Musical
LITTLE BROWN THEATER CO.

Peep Bo, Mikado
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY

Duchess of Paza-Toro, The Gondoliers
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY

Susanna, Le nozze di Figaro
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, Opera Scenes

Marie, La fille du régiment
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, Opera Scenes.

Mabel, Pirates of Penzance
PLAIN CITY THEATRE 

Soprano Soloist
INSTITUT DE RELIGION LYONNAIS, Christmas Concert in Lyon, France.

Soprano Soloist
Baptismal music in Chicago, Illinois; Lyon, France; Lausanne, Switzerland; Luxembourg; and Paris, France.

Soprano Soloist, Handel's Messiah
Handel's Messiah, SALT LAKE ASSEMBLY HALL

Tuptim, The King and I
HUNTER HIGH

Cinderella, Into the Woods
HUNTER HIGH

Cosette, Les Misérables
HUNTER HIGH

FOREIGN LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE

Fluency in French
Basic Italian
Singing Experience in Danish, Finnish,
​German, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish

DRAMATIC EXPERIENCE

The Olle-Madsen Handcart Company Documentary
DREAMCHASER ENTERTAINMENT
Voice Talent

Joseph Fielding Smith, a docudrama
DREAMCHASER ENTERTAINMENT
Principal Actress, Louie Shurtliff Smith

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