Michael J. Peterson
901 Alhambra Avenue,
Frankfort, Indiana 46041
Home Telephone (765) 659-4317
Cell Phone: (317) 408-7806
www.michaelpeterson7.exploretalent.com
E-Mail: singa2oon@sbcglobal.net
Vocal Coach and Talent Scout for:
Talent-Fusion Agency (317) 951-2230
FAX (866) 737-6560
320 N. Meridian Suite 901
Indianapolis, IN 46204
e-mail: mike@talent-fusion.com
Web: www.talent-fusion.com
Wainwright M.S. Choral Director
Faculty Listing
http://wms.tsc.k12.in.us/index.cfm?event=search&se...
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Acting / Film-TV /Vocal –Music Work
Shattered People – Sec.Lead – Church Singer ‘11-12
The Stage – Indy film lead – PJ Roberts – March ‘11
The Departure Lounge – featured extra July 2010
Relaunch-Indy film lead –Jennings- April 2010
"Relaunch" won several awards at the 2011Envision Film Festival, - Taylor University. It won Best Picture, Audience Choice, and Best Liberal Arts Film
Away in a Manger-Featured Film Extra – NY 2009
Footloose-the Musical–Rev Moore-July 2007
Lend Me a Tenor February 2007 CCCT
Lend Me a Tenor – 1992 Red Barn Theater
– Midwestern Premier – Role of Tito Merelli –
Disorder in the Court – Judge Titus Clapham - CCCT
Wonderful Town – - Orchestra Director RBSS
Children of Eden –Footlight Musicals (Piano 3) Indy
Brigadoon – Mr. Lundy – Orchestra Director RBSS
Guys and Dolls - Orchestra Director RBSS
Jesus Christ Superstar - Orchestra Director RBSS
I’ll Be Back After Midnight – George – RBSS
On Golden Pond – The Postman - RBSS
The Boys Next Door – Incidental Characters - RBSS
A Thousand Clowns – Leo Herman, “Chuckles” -RBSS
Barefoot in the Park – Mr. Velasco - RBSS
Never Too Late - Harry Lambert – Shawnee Theater
Indianapolis Arts Chorale – Tenor / Soloist
Dick Wolfsie A.M. Indiana –Soloist
Zone 3B Chairman for HS - ICDA & ISSMA 7 Years
Regency Advanced Vocal / Advanced Champion
Theater-In-The-Woods – an Evening with Sondheim
Regency International Competition –Adv. Winner
Mooresville Comm. Music Society
Gospel Jubilee Recording
Musical Setting of Local Residents Lyric
Clinton County Children’s Theater Dir. 1997 – 2003
Mousetrap – Christopher Wren – Shawnee
Handel’s Messiah – Tenor Soloist ( Multiple perf.)
South Pacific–Emile de Becque–Jackson /Lafayette
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Music/Stage Director
Professional /Stock/Community Theater
The Mikado Oct 2008 & Jan 2009- Director/Producer
Is There Life After High School - Orchestra Director
Cabaret- Orchestra Director - Red Barn (RBBS)
Guys and Dolls- Orchestra Director – Red Barn
The Student Prince- Director – Shawnee Summer Stock
Damn Yankees – Director – Shawnee Summer Stock
The King and I – Director – Shawnee Summer Stock
Camelot – Director – Shawnee Summer Stock

Stage Director
The Sound of Music – Stage Director
Oliver – Stage Director-Frankfort
Annie Get Your Gun – Stage Director- Frankfort
Anything Goes – Stage Director- Frankfort
A Funny Thing Happened (Forum) – Stage Director
Man of La Mancha – Stage Director- Frankfort
Kiss me Kate – Stage Director- Frankfort
The Man Who Came to Dinner– Frankfort
Harvey – Director- Bloomfield
Fiddler on the Roof – Director- Bloomfield
You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown – Frankfort
South Pacific – Director- Bloomfield


Indianapolis Opera Chorus 1998-2004 Seasons
2003 – 2004 Season- Rigoletto
2002 – 2003 Season -La Traviata, *Die Fledermaus (Chorus, ballroom dancer & soloist), La Boheme
2001 – 2002 Season -Aida (High Priest), Samson & Delilah
2000 – 2001 Season -Don Giovanni, Il Trovatore
1999 - 2000 Season –Tosca, Faust
1998 - 1999 Season - The Barber of Seville, The Flying Dutchman, Macbeth
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*ADDITIONAL PROFSSIONAL ACTIVITIES *
Coaching with Roy Samuelsen – Indiana University Professor of Voice – Spring 2010
Workshops in New York - the Classical Singer Convention – May 2010:
Dr. Todd Queen of Colorado State & Opera Fort Collins
Dan Montez – General Director of Taconic Opera in New York
Ken Benson - vice-president at Columbia Artists Management
Kristene Wallis & Wally Burr Agencies – voice over workshop Chicago 2009

Vocal Coach & Talent Scout for Talent-Fusion Agency - Indianapolis, Indiana
Peterson Studio of Voice – Frankfort, Indiana and Lafayette, Indiana Studios
Coaching Musical Theater, Pop, Jazz, Country and Classical Styles – Garcia Method of Voice
Languages coached: German, Italian, French, English – fluency in Japanese and an instructor in the language
East Asian Studies Center - New Japanese Language Standards Presenter - IUPUI, Indianapolis 14 July 2007
University of Wisconsin – Madison – Workshop 2007 – Using Film, Manga and Anime in a Japanese Classroom.
University of Missouri – St. Louis - Workshop 2007 – Strategies for Teaching Japanese to Teenagers
Purdue Extension Services / Ivy Tech / IU Kokomo – Japanese instructor as contracted
The Japan Foundation – Grant committee members reviewing requests from Institutions and Individuals (2000)
Clinton County Library (1997 - 2006). Children's Theater Music Director, Stage Director. Set Design and
Construction / co-producer relationship with wife. Group Voice Teacher ages 9-18 Spring Semester 2006.
Vocal Adjudicator for Talent Shows, County Fairs, Music Festivals
Very Special Arts of Indiana – past contributing educator / facilitator
Private Vocal coach (Owner / Operator of Peterson Studio of Voice) Frankfort and Lafayette, Indiana:
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* MEMBERSHIPS & POSITIONS HELD*
(AITJ) Association of Indiana Teachers of Japanese –Newsletter Editor – 3 Terms
(IFMC) Indiana Federation of Music Clubs / Wabash Valley Junior Music Festivals
West Lafayette Musicale – Music Teachers & Performers Association
(CCMAA) Clinton County Musical Arts Association Judge, Vocal Coach
(NCJLT) National Council of Japanese Language Teachers President (2000-2001) - Alliance Board,
Secretary - 1999-2000, Contest Director. Board of Directors 1997-2001, Newsletter contributor.
(ICDA) Indiana Choral Directors Association - All State Choir - Zone 3B Chairman auditions/mixed choir.
(ISTA) Indiana State Teachers Association
(CCCT) Founding Charter Member of Clinton County Civic Theater
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*AWARDS, GRANTS, & HONORS*
Chicago Showcase 2009 – National Agents– Placed top 4 in Vocal, Monologue, Cold Read and Improvisation
Who’s Who of American Teachers – Years 1992, 1998, 2004 and Stanford Who’s Who for 2011.
Indiana Foreign Language Teacher of the Year 2003-2004 – Secondary School Level
Indiana Department of Education and Ball State University – Learning and Teaching about Japan Grant 2001
Indiana Department of Education and Ball State University – Learning and Teaching about Japan Grant 1995
TV Channel 13 Shining Star Teacher - State of Indiana Finalist
Frankfort Times Clinton Countian –for choral work and as orchestra director for the Red Barn Theater
Governor Orr - Indiana Letter of Appreciation - State House Christmas Choir Performance
Jaycees - Bloomfield Indiana Award of Appreciation
Regency International Advanced Vocalist Award - National Qualifier
Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honors Society – Indiana University Friend’s of Music Scholarship
Phi Kappa Phi Music Scholarship - Weber State College
US ARMY * US Army Europe - 118 Performances - Army Commendation Medal –Soldiers Magazine Article
German - American Liaison - 7th Army VII Corps.
Sterling Scholar English and Literature- 1 of 14 State of Utah Finalists
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*EDUCATION*
Masters Degree – Indiana University Choral Vocal Concentration
Bachelors Degree – Indiana University BME Choral / General Music, Japanese, German, Music Theory, Orchestration, Theater, Arranging and Composition, Piano, Conducting, Voice, General Music Methods, Opera Theater, Singing Hoosiers, Arts Administration, Music Education and Theater Major. Choreography and Choral Techniques. Opera Direction with: Nathaniel Merrill, Ross Allen, Hans Busch & Jack Eddelman, Study of Boris Goldovksy - Opera Staging Vocal Studies: Dist. Prof. Margaret Harshaw / Marcia Baldwin. Recent study (2010) with Roy Samuelsen, emeritus professor of voice / Indiana University
Work with John Jacobson – Choreographer, Mac Huff – arranger and composer.
Ballroom Dance with Larry Schmidt, Lafayette, Indiana
Work with Peterson Studio of Dance (owned and operated by my wife – Susan J. Peterson),
Workshops in ballroom dance.
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*PERSONAL RESEARCH & OUTPUT*
1. Workshop Presenter – Japanese – Washington D.C., Chicago, Ill., Dallas-Texas, Denver, Co., SLC – Utah,
2. Japanese 747 - Instructional Japanese Grammar & Culture Textbook Supplement, Japanese CD Set
3. General Handbook developed for Arts Administration (194 pages) – Used by Clinton County Civic Theater

PROFESSIONALLY: As a performer my work has been in ACTING and SINGING, but I also have substantial credit as a DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, CONDUCTOR and work in some films. I uploaded a recent short film, “The Stage” - (May 2011), produced by Taylor University. I was asked to take part in this Spring 2011 film, based on work I did for the universities film program in last years production of "Re-launch", which is also in my video portfolio here at Explore Talent. My theatrical background includes set design, set building, prop acquisition and construction, costuming, script editing, rewriting, orchestra rehearsal/conducting, vocal coaching and vocal maintenance of singers during a performance run, as well as other behind the scenes preparation. As a musician/singer/vocal coach I am Owner / Instructor of PETERSON STUDIO OF VOICE. (Lafayette, Indiana and Frankfort, Indiana). My degree in Choral/Vocal music is from Indiana University, where I studied with distinguished professor of voice Margaret Harshaw and Marcia Baldwin (both were rostered with the Metropolitan Opera, NY). Some of my students have taken state and national awards in voice and acting. In 2010, to brush up on my vocal work and vocal teaching, I studied with Roy Samuelsen, an internationally known operatic bass/baritone who retired from the Indiana University voice faculty. I believe that those who teach, should be able to DO, and should continue to learn and work in their music and theatrical fields. Besides being a singer, actor and stage director with experience as a choral conductor and a number of years filling these various roles in summer stock as an orchestral conductor, I spent seven years as a zone chairman for the INDIANA CHORAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION as the ALL STATE CHOIR ZONE CHAIRMAN (zone 3B - 25 school districts). Along with the auditioning responsibility, I conducted the rehearsals leading up to state performances in Indianapolis for the mixed choir from those who auditioned in the zone. My wife, owner and instructor of PETERSON STUDIO OF DANCE, has joined me in judging various county fair talent shows in Central Indiana, and some JUNIOR MISS STATE FINALS over the years, because we are both committed to education, coaching and talent of all ages. I am slated to take part in a Spec Commercial for the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society, Inc. on July 2nd, 2011, the date of my most recent update of my talent information and resume here on ExploreTalent.com.
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ADDITIONALLY: I am a voice coach and talent scout with TALENT FUSION AGENCY in Indianapolis. We are always seeking models, actors, singers, dancers and performers of all ages, while making contacts across the nation in various markets. As such, we do not place talent locally, but instead provide talent for national showcases in which directors and producers from TV, film, recording, Broadway and other performance venues come to audition the talent pool we, and other agencies like ours, bring to each 4 day showcase. You could think of us as providing a multi-course buffet of talent for the casting directors and producers who come to each showcase. In this way, we provide the broadest market in which to display or exhibit your talent or talents.
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TALENT FUSION is affiliated with Global Stars Network, and has a reputation of providing the participating cadre of casting directors and upper level entertainment professionals in attendance from around the world with the best prepared and trained talent for fashion/commercial runway, film, television, print photography modeling, recording executives with actors, models, singers and dancers of all ages and types. In our one year association, we have already received the Agency of the Year Award twice (November 2010 and May 2011) for the talent we’ve introduced to the visiting agents, casting directors and producers from around the globe who attend the four day auditions cycles, which recently have been 4 days aboard cruise ships out of Tampa, FLA or Los Angeles, CA which have chartered salons and stage where the auditions are nearly continuous for registered talent.
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You can contact me at singa2oon@sbcglobal.net, find me on Facebook or my Talent Fusion Agency e-mail – “mike”@talent-fusion.com - without the quotation marks or the space.
For TALENT FUSIONS web page, point your browser to-

http://talent-fusion.com/main.html
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VOCAL PERFORMANCE and VOCAL METHOD:
My music degree and studies include singing and coaching singers in Italian, French, German, English of course, and dialects. My personal resume includes musical theater, opera (performing with the Indianapolis Opera from 1998 through 2004), pop, jazz, musical theater, C&W, gospel, and other contemporary styles. The method I teach has been proven to protect the voice, give greater power to projection, and increase the years of performing for a singer. Most of my directing has been for stage, but my acting includes voice over work, character voices, and film with a good deal of experience on the stage myself. In my bag of tricks, I have been a children's theater director and stage presence coach for ages 9 and up. Several of my students have performed regionally in musical theater, and in showcases, receiving high praise, success and recognition.
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GARCIA METHOD OF VOICE: I am an instructor in the Garcia method of voice, which had it's beginning with Manuel Garcia 1775 - 1832,(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Garcia(tenor) continued through his son, also Manuel Garcia although my line of instruction came through his daughter Pauline Viardot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Viardot) and through Anne Eugenie Schoen-Rene who was with Julliard School of Music. Through Viardot and Schoen-Rene, the techniques were passed to a multitude of operatic stars of the last century, including Margaret Harshaw who sang more Wagnerian Opera roles from Contralto through Soprano than any other female opera singer in history. Some histories claim her beginnings as a mezzo, but her first role at the Met was as the contralto Norn in Ring des Nibelungen. For more information on her career and thoughts on singing as well as acting, you can peruse an interview of her from 1994. This grand lady of the old Metropolitan Opera, with a fierce intensity to pass the technique to students passed away in 1997. I count myself lucky to be one of only two education majors Miss Harshaw ever accepted into her voice studio during her tenure at Indiana University. For the interview with broadcaster Bruce Duffie - see// http://www.bruceduffie.com/harshaw.html

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OTHER PERSONAL EDUCATIONAL ENDEAVORS / JAPANESE LANGUAGE: I live in Indiana and taught Japanese as a day job, along with my vocal coaching in the evenings, from 1995-2010, in a district where I was the corporation department chair of world languages. Being highly energetic, during that time I was teaching Japanese, I served on the board of directors for the National Council of Japanese Language Teachers, also serving one year as the president of that organization. I learned Japanese when I lived n Japan for 2 years as a missionary. I shifted gears back to my original degree of voice and performing by taking over a choral / vocal program in a Lafayette, Indiana school district for the 2010-2011 school year. I still teach Japanese as contracted, and will be doing a one week workshop for youth ages 8-18 for Purdue Extension Services in Frankfort, Indiana in June 2011.

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I am completely open to meeting just about anyone from any walk of life. I've learned that I can always add something to my bag of acting tricks from observing and meeting. For a bit broader list, you can check my interests. As for professionals in the business.... and only writing about American film actors....I have a strong appreciation of Johnny Depp's ability to field any character with a totally different persona. I feel the same for Meryl Streep in her range from Julia Childs to her role in Mamma Mia. However, my lists of actors and singers who inspire me in a variety of ways would get too lengthy and take more time to go through than does my RESUME or my ABOUT ME segment above.