Joanna Hake – Voice & Piano
Joanna has been an artist, musician, and songwriter for most of her life. She grew up idolizing her father, an extremely accomplished pianist, organist, and flautist, who began teaching her piano at a very young age. In High School, Joanna earned the opportunity to participate at the ARTS Festival in Orlando, Fl where she won 1st in Monologue, 2nd in Singing, and 3rd in the Cold Read. As a result of ARTS, Joanna attended a 4 week Music Theatre workshop at New York Film Academy where she studied with various Broadway and Off- Broadway Instructors in Dance, Acting, and Voice/Singing. After competing, composing, and performing throughout most of high school and college, Joanna earned a BFA degree with an emphasis in Music Theatre from the University of West Florida in Pensacola. While studying in college, Joanna began taking on vocal students at the suggestion of her own voice teacher.
Following her degree, Joanna was on cast at Sterling Renaissance Festival in Sterling, NY, where vocal coaching became a necessary skill in a time period where “microphones don’t exist”. After Sterling, Joanna took on an Administrative position at Luna Stage in West Orange, NJ where she met and worked with various artists of the stage and screen as well as Grammy Award Winning producers. In addition, Joanna began teaching piano and voice in that area with Alexa Teebo Voice Studio. After a total of 12 years, Joanna has been able to cultivate her own way of teaching, involving the body as a whole. Her results have yielded excellent self- confidence, progress in self- discipline and performance, and genuinely positive attitudes from her students, regardless of age. Joanna believes that a person’s voice is one of the greatest gifts we get in this life and she is very excited to continue sharing that message with Boulevard Music!