Tory Gozzi holds a Master of Music in Voice Pedagogy and Performance from Westminster Choir College and a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Belhaven University. She also holds teaching certification in contemporary commercial music styles through Shenandoah University’s CCM Vocal Institute (Somatic Voicework™ – The LoVetri Method) and is a full-fledged member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS). Tory is an ABT® Certified Teacher, who has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training in Pre-Primary through Level 5 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum and also has her certification in the Russian Vaganova Method through the Open World Dance Foundation. She currently serves as the Artistic Director for the Newtown Centre of Classical Ballet & Voice in Newtown, CT.

She has studied dance and dance pedagogy under Marsha Ismailoff Mark, Jennifer Johnston, Shamil Yagudin, Laura Morton, Elizabeth McMillan, Krista Bower, Erin Rockwell, Belhaven University, Ballet Magnificat!, the American Academy of Ballet, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre.  She has studied voice and voice pedagogy under Christopher Arneson Carolann Page, Christopher Shelt, Pamela Hoffman, Anne Gray, Gena Everitt, Elizabeth Richardson, and Aaron Odom.  In addition to teaching at NCCB&V, Tory also serves as a professional vocalist in both Western Connecticut and New York and is the choir director and cantor at St. Marguerite Bourgeoys Parish in Brookfield, CT.

Through Belhaven, she was privileged to take part in a partnership arts program that took international music and dance ministry trips to various cultures around the world; through this partnership, she worked in the African countries of Zambia and Uganda and in the South American country of Peru. In her last five years at NCCB, she performed as a principal dancer with the studio, the Malenkee Ballet Repertoire Company, and the Danbury Music Centre; roles include Cinderella, Sugar Plum Fairy, Dew Drop Fairy, Snow Queen, Arabian Queen, and Clara. During her graduate studies at Westminster, she was privileged to participate in their Symphonic Choir with whom she sang Brahms’ Requiem at Verizon Hall in Philadelphia, The Messiah at Lincoln Center, and The Resurrection Symphony at Carnegie Hall in New York. She performed in Tosca with New Jersey Opera, Alcina with Westminster Opera, and The Old Maid and the Thief and The Gondoliers with Belhaven Opera.  Her voice has been featured on several local CDs including Way of the Cross, Connecticut Voices for Heroes, and five personal albums. As an artistic director, she has re-staged and choreographed productions of The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Peter and the Wolf, Circus, Sleeping Beauty, Paquita, Coppelia, Under the Sea: a Handel’s Water Suite Ballet, Four Seasons, Les Sylphides, The Planets: a Gustav Holst Suite, and La Bayadere with productions of Magic Key and Cinderella currently in the works.