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In The Studio
Benjamin Czarnota is a Level III Certified Teacher of Somatic Voicework™ - The LoVetri Method and particularly interested in working with singing actors to cultivate an understanding of and relationship to their instrument that will enable them to perform successfully across the widest breadth of musical styles desired, with access to the full extent of dramatic choices healthily possible. For two years, he was the Coordinator of Musical Theater Voice at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, having formerly served as a member of the voice faculty at the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music for over a decade.
During this time, he has seen students go on to perform in leading roles on Broadway in the casts of American Psycho, Anastasia, Godspell, Hands on a Hard Body, Kinky Boots, Les Misérables, and ONCE; and on National Tours in: A Chorus Line, The Color Purple, Flashdance, Kinky Boots, and Wicked. In addition, former students have been seen all over the country in countless regional productions. In his private studio, he has worked with everyone from a Tony award-winning singing actress to a speaking actor in a one-person play portraying dozens of uniquely voiced characters across the full spectrum of gender, age, and origin.
Benjamin currently teaches at Heidelberg University and the Baldwin Wallace Community Arts School, as well as in his private studio and online.
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On The Stage
A lifelong lover of new works, Czarnota originated the roles of Mr. Webb in the world premiere of Ned Rorem’s operatic setting of the iconic Thornton Wilder play Our Town and, recently, Otto Frank in the world premiere of Anne Frank. Other notable roles include Stanley Kowalski in Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Schaunard in La Bohème, and Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, as well as roles in The Merry Widow, Susanna, Savitri, and Un Ballo in Maschera with companies such as Wichita Grand Opera, Cleveland Opera, Cleveland Opera Theater, Opera Circle Cleveland, The Janiec Opera Company, and the Indiana University Opera Theater. While attending Indiana University, he was chosen by baritone Håkan Hagegård to perform the role of Anton Chekov in Dominick Argento’s A Few Words About Chekov in music written for the world-renowned singer. He has also appeared as baritone soloist in the Fauré Requiem, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, the Mozart Requiem, and Handel’s Messiah in appearances with the Traverse Symphony and the BlueWater Chamber Orchestras. Regional music theatre roles include the title role in Sweeney Todd, Marcus Lycus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Freddy in My Fair Lady, the Father in Children of Eden, and Emile de Beque in South Pacific, a production with the Akron Symphony Orchestra at EJ Thomas Hall.
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Featured Testimonials
Real Voices, Real Experiences
His patient approach and attention to detail were invaluable as these exercises and tips gave me added confidence about performing my essentially non-stop stream of spoken words.
I highly recommend Benjamin as an extremely effective Vocal Coach, Musical Director, or Production Director. He is the real deal.
In only a few short weeks and a handful of lessons I have improved leaps and bounds. The feedback I have gotten on my voice since starting lessons has been extraordinary.
Czarnota is a downright multi-versed genius. He’s always studying, always discovering, always dismantling the most abstract of sounds. He loves what he does, and thank god, because he is one of the few doing it.
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