A BIT ABOUT ME
Live Your Dream
April Lisette is an award-winning vocalist, musician, and educator from Albuquerque, New Mexico. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance from New Mexico Highlands University, where she graduated on both athletic and music scholarships. Her vocal training includes study with Danya Tiller, Dr. Andre Garcia-Nuthmann, Carol Jennings (member of the Grammy Award–winning Phoenix Chorale), and continued advanced study with Dr. Elena Blyskal and Jared Trudeau, a direct pupil of renowned pedagogue Mary Saunders Barton. She also studied piano with Dr. Deborah Wagner and Dr. Joseph Gonzales.
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April earned a Master of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre Vocal Pedagogy from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee—one of only a handful of artists worldwide to hold this highly specialized, one-of-a-kind terminal degree focused on training versatile, multi-hyphenated musical theatre performers and teachers.
She began studying piano at age six under Mary Jobe and Flora Russo, earning superior ratings for nine consecutive years, as well as first- and second-place scholarship awards at ages eleven and twelve. A lifelong composer, April has written over 30 original works, with more than half composed between the ages of twelve and twenty.
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In 1995, April was selected for the Young Razzcals Jazz Project, directed by Dave Adams. The ensemble produced multiple recordings featuring April as a vocalist and performed as guest artists at the prestigious Telluride Jazz Festival. Alumni of the project have gone on to study at top conservÚ conservatories—including New England Conservatory and Boston Conservatory at Berklee—and now perform in major orchestras and alongside Grammy Award–winning artists.
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April has also been a member of the contemporary folk-rock group Wild Humans, producing a full-length album under the same name, currently available on all major music streaming platforms.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Making Every Lesson Count
April started teaching at age 16 and never thought that besides performing, it would become her career and passion. She has worked as a teaching artist, actor, and singer in New Mexico, Arizona, and Hawaii as well as faculty at Pas De Deux, The School of Rock, New Mexico School of Music, and The Growing Stage. She also served as the acting coach and resident actor at Play Conservatory's summer stock production of Children of Eden in 2016 and acting coach for The Tortoise Versus the Hare: The Greatest Race in collaboration with Missoula Children's Theatre in 2017. Children of Eden was the first show in the Southwest done simultaneously in spoken English and ASL.
April has also accompanied students in various recitals at Carnegie Hall, internationally in Toronto at the Royal Conservatory of Music, with her private studio, and other venues in Albuquerque, NM.
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Currently, April is an assistant professor of voice with faculty appointments at Berklee College of Music, Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Brookline Music School.