About Celia

music coordinator | voice | piano

My Story

Celia is a classically trained vocalist and musical theatre performer from Indio, CA. She graduated with her BA in Music with an Emphasis in Vocal Performance from Regis University in Denver, Colorado. Her degree provided her with knowledge of healthy vocal technique, music theory and composition, and music history. She believes that music is the ultimate selfless gift because it requires vulnerability, honesty, empathy, and making connections with others. Her private voice teachers have inspired her deeply, and she wants to give others the same opportunity to be touched by music the same way she has. Celia wants students to have a safe space to feel creative and express themselves, and then go forth into the world as their most authentic selves and use music to make it a better place.

Celia’s love of music began as a child. She was extremely shy growing up, but always felt her shyness disappear and her light shine when she sang a song or pretended to be someone else. (Legend has it that a next-door neighbor once overheard a six-year-old Celia singing to herself in the backyard!) …And she hasn’t stopped since. Her experience includes many choral ensembles, solo classical performance (creating and debuting two headlining recitals), and a wide variety of straight plays and musical theatre. She was also a therapeutic music intern, singing for patients and patient families in the cardiac unit, surgery recovery and waiting area, and radiation and cancer treatment area.

Celia was in the vocal ensemble of Denver’s Gilbert and Sullivan Troupe, the Empire Lyric Players, in their production of the operetta Ruddigore. Her favorite roles she’s played include Anne Frank (Anne Frank and Me), Hodel (Fiddler on the Roof), Hero (Much Ado About Nothing), Hope Cladwell (Urinetown: The Musical), Tracy Turnblad (Hairspray), and Morticia Addams (The Addams Family musical.) Celia was the first place at the Hi-Desert Cultural Center for the Desert Music Foundation Scholarship Vocal Competition, and was also a finalist in the Musical Theatre Division of the National Association for Teachers of Singing (NATS) Vocal Competition.

Fun fact: Celia previously worked at Animal Samaritans as their Development and Volunteer Coordinator and grew up learning the importance of using your passions to give back to your community.