Biography
Nicole Marschall resides in Apple Valley with her husband Todd & their three dogs Frank, Ty-Ty & Xena. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, Morris, with a degree in Vocal Performance/K - 12 Music Licensure, where she also studied Piano Performance and Accompanying. Additionally, she studied music at the Institute of European Studies in Vienna, Austria.Ms. Marschall has taught voice and piano privately and in the classroom at the elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels since 2002. She currently has voice studios in her home, Eagan High School, and Apple Valley High School. She has received recognition for "Who's Who in America's Teachers" from 2006 - 2010. She is a member of the National Association of Singing (NATS), and Apple Valley Music Teachers Association (AVMTA) and was recently appointed Co-Chair for MN-NATS (Programs) and Co-Chair for AVMTA (Festivals). Ms. Marschall has studied voice with Jean del Santo, Dr. D.D. Michael-Mechelke, Janet Ahern, Ulrike Sych (of the Vienna School of Music), and Donna Robin (former Vienna State Opera Soloist). She has studied piano with Julia Tinhof of Vienna, and Kay Carlson.
Ms. Marschall is the music director for Second Stage Theatre Company, music director and pianist for the Burnsville Senior High School musical theatre program, and is an accompanist and administrative assistant for the Allegro Choral Academy. In ten short years, Ms. Marschall has musically directed and/or played for over 30 musicals. In addition to her work in musical theatre, she is also the Chorus Master for the University of Minnesota, School of Music Opera Theatre, having just began work on her fifth opera with the company, Cosi fan Tutte. She is thrilled about the partership that both David Walsh and the University is providing for local high school students through these community outreach projects. She taught five Vocal Master Classes this past year and presented "Body Movement and Musical Theatre for Young Voices" at the MMTA Summer Conference in June of 2009. She was awarded an Independent Teacher Fellowship in the Summer of 2011 to attend the NATS Salt Lake City Workshop.
Professionally, Ms. Marschall has sung in the chorus for Sarah Brightman's "La Luna World Tour", Vienna, Austria; and in Maurice Ravel's "L'Enfant et Les Sortileges" and Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" at Orchestra Hall. She has been the Rehearsal Accompanist for Schoenberg's Gurre-lieder, a UMM Chorus project with the MN Orchestra, and UMM's African Sanctus. She accompanies for many local high schools and local productions, including Normandale College. She has played for the former UMM Chancellor (Sam Schumann) numerous times at both the UMM and UMTC campuses and has played for UMN recruitment events.
Ms. Marschall performs often in the community at coffeehouses and for weddings and special occasions and sings in the non-profit cover band "All My Favorites". She enjoys being a rock star for the band and loves that the group dedicates their time & talents to the arts, having helped to raise and donate over $120,000 in the past eight years to benefit the local arts community. Her music studio often volunteers their time by performing at the Children's Hospitals of Minneapolis and St. Paul, local nursing homes and assisted living centers, and other local venues.