A passionate vocalist, performing artist and arts education advocate, Madeleine is dedicated to building community and healing divide through music, storytelling, and performance. She has studied classical voice with Michael Chipman of the Colburn School of the Performing Arts and was the youngest artist selected to study opera at the Bel Canto in Tuscany Young Artist’s Intensive in 2023. She has performed as a solo or duet vocalist in over 25 professional cabarets and benefit concerts featuring renowned young artists in NYC and LA, and was the first place grand prize winner in ATNY’s youth cabaret competition judged by Fred Bronson (American Idol/BIllboard). Additional vocal genres also include bel canto opera (Italian), Zarzuela (Spanish), and jazz/pop/R&B. Her theater roles in NYC and LA include: Jennifer in KOTA’s US premiere of Knight at the Museum, Elle Woods in Legally Blonde at the Jaxx Theatre in Hollywood, Regina George in Mean Girls, Tess Tyler in KOTA’s Times Square production of Disney’s Camp Rock, Moana in Moana, Elsa in Frozen, Princess Fiona in Shrek, Izzy in the staged reading of the new musical, The Road to Soc-Con, Belle in Beauty and the Beast, and Wendy Darling in Peter Pan. Her passion for arts education has taken her both to rural Cambodia as a student ambassador selected to participate in a cultural music exchange with local high school students alongside Cambodia Living Arts, and the founding of her own public education initiative, The Speech Collective, teaching public speaking skills to local youth in public libraries through confidence building workshops, and she was most recently featured alongside her sister in Harper’s Bazaar Vietnam as a global fashion and arts youth representative. Her dance training includes competitive jazz, hip hop, and tap, including a first place award at the 2021 Royal Dance Competition for her musical theater solo rendition, ‘Ain’t We Got Fun’. Her music studies have also included classical piano with Rosanna Buchs of New York, vocal coaching from Eric Lifland, Bob Marks, and Clint Carter, and she has performed as a pianist in Carnegie Hall in the Winners’ Recital of the 2019 Little Mozarts Crescendo International Competition.
You can find Madeleine’s 2024 Summer Music Competition vocal performance here.