Tory Gozzi serves as the Artistic Director of the Newtown Centre of Classical Ballet & Voice in Newtown, CT.  Group and private ballet and/or voice lessons can be booked with her at the main studio in Newtown as well as privately out of her Brookfield residence.

She is trained and certified through the ABT’s National Training Curriculum and Open World Dance Foundation’s Vaganova Teacher Training Course alongside 14 years of performance experience and study.  Currently she teaches beginner through advanced ballet at the school as well as strength and conditioning, choreography, repertoire, and pointe classes for intermediate and advanced levels. 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 in the works.

She holds her Masters in Voice Performance and Pedagogy through Westminster Choir College of Princeton, New Jersey, and a Bachelors of Arts in Music through Belhaven University of Jackson, Mississippi, and is certified through Shenandoah University’s CCM Vocal Institute (Somatic Voicework™ – The LoVetri Method) for contemporary commercial styles. She is well studied in the areas of choral pedagogy, music theory, composition, sight-reading, and diction (English, Latin, Italian, French, German, Spanish), and her musical knowledge encompasses a variety of Broadway, pop/rock, and classical song styles as well as church music genres including hymns, contemporary, and high church music.  Her students have performed lead roles in local productions of Newsies, Les Miserables, Lion King Jr., Shrek Jr., Wizard of Oz, Guys and Dolls, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Into the Woods, and more, and several have gone on to pursue music performance and education degrees.  She accepts children ages seven and up as well as adult students.

For full information, including scheduling, tuition rates, policies, etc. please visit the school’s main page:  www.nccballetandvoice.com