DreamDome

Ana Gonzalez-Porto has an M.Ed and is a certified Waldorf teacher. She taught at the Sebastopol Independent Charter School for four years. She received her undergraduate degree from Boston University where she attended the School of Fine Arts. She also attended Mannes College of Music in New York City where she was the featured alto soloist in Vivaldi's Magnificat and Mozart's Requiem. She premiered the lead role in the opera Marta and was cast as the lead, Natura, in the world premiere of John McDowell's Cosmographia. She performed in recitals and concert operas in New York as well as performing with Boston Lyric Opera in Boston, Massachusetts. She was a featured performer with Boston Opera Lab playing Dido in Dido and Aeneas, the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors and Dorabella in Cosi Fan Tutti. She was a voice teacher at Sunbridge College and at Antioch's Graduate Waldorf Training Program. She was a radio anchor for MonitoRadio, WNYC, the NPR-affiliate in NY, and was the voice of sports features for ESPN Intl. She has studied voice for 27 years and taught voice for the last seven years. She has composed and arranged songs for voice, recorder and instruments and written and directed children's plays for the past four years. She currently sings with the West County Jazz Collective.	DreamDome honors the innocence and imagination of the young performer and features them in original musicals based on children's classics. Julie of the Wolves Little Women The Giving Child The Elf Mother Holle The Twelve Huntsmen The Giving Tree The Singing, Soaring Lark Polar Express The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces

Testimonials: "I have been to many play performances involving my children over the years, and I have found the plays Ana directed to be fabulous. Her plays have an artistic element which is sensitive, refined, and substantial. She is a genius with her musical embellishment, inspired with her casting, and a master at bring out the performer in child or adult." Gillian Haley, mother of 4 "Her students showed a level of competence and connection with their plays that never ceased to amaze me…showing a subtlety and refinement that I never once witnessed in any school production." Tim Sarter, Teacher, La Tercera School "Ms. Gonzalez-Porto has used her considerable talents to lead the children in her class to excel not only in singing, but in acting and dancing as well. Her students have performed several plays that have been truly exceptional." Kim Jamieson, Superintendent, Sonoma Valley Unified School District "What Ana imparts to the students fortunate enough to work with her is an essential part of the child's discovery of their growing self. I am certain that without Ana's artful instruction, my son would not have reached the level of musical and dramatic skill he currently holds." Luna Collins-Smith, Piano Teacher, Move Over Mozart "In all of Ana's performances I have been impressed with the caliber of musical and acting skill she has instilled in the children…she is a strong, firm teacher with a true love for children and a rare talent for music and the theater." Lisa Shulman, Children's Book Author and Teacher "While much of what they have learned to do is sophisticated and complex, it has also been taught in an age appropriate manner so that it comes forth as a natural expression and not as difficult striving." Kelcey Jacobsen, Assistant Teacher, San Francisco Day School	Classes: The Wishing Well The Magic of Music for Ages 5-7 Sebastopol Center for the Arts Tues &Thurs, Sept 7-Oct 7, 3:30-4:30 Fee $150 Thurs Oct 21-Dec16, 3:30-4:30 Fee $125 No class 11/25 Music Circles/ Instruments/ Singing Movement Storytelling/ Play-Acting The beginning of a magical journey that will teach children 5-7 how to play chimes, cymbals, xylophone, tambourines, dulcimer, pentatonic flute as part of the enchantment of music circles and storytelling. Piano accompaniment provided. The Magic of Music for Ages 8-10 Sebastopol Center for the Arts Tues & Thurs, Sept 7-Oct 7, 4:30-5:30 Fee $150 Children 8-10 and 11-14 will learn how to become the character in a story and how to move, sing, play an instrument and speak the lines of their character while working as part of an ensemble. The stories will be selected for the group and music written to match their skill level. Children will be grouped by skill level and age. Piano accompaniment included. Following The Elf's Journey Sebastopol Center for the Arts Tues & Thurs Oct 19-Dec 16, 4:30-5:30 4 rehearsals 12/8,10,13 &15 3:30-5:30 No class 11/25 Performance Eve of December 16 Fee $285 +$20 materials fee Payment arrangement available Children will be cast in excerpts from "The Elf," an original children's musical to be premiered in December. Children will begin to prepare their roles, songs, and instruments used in "The Elf." Children presenting "The Elf" must attend all scheduled rehearsals and the final performance. To register call Sebastopol Center for the Arts: 707-829-4797 www.sebarts.org For individual instruction and more information: 707-794-9843
For information and registration call 707-794-9843 email: ana gonzalez-porto
Individual singing lessons for adults: Howling at the Moon Voice Studio 794-9843