Michael J. Peterson 

Previous unpaid speaking roles

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• English
• Japanese

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• UK Cockney
• UK English
• USA Boston
• USA California

• USA New York
• USA Southern
• French
• German

• Italian
• Japanese

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Michael J. Peterson
901 Alhambra Avenue,
Frankfort, Indiana 46041
Home Telephone (765) 659-4317
Cell Phone: (317) 408-7806
www.michaelpeterson7.exploretalent.com
E-Mail: singa2oon@sbcglobal.net
Vocal Coach and Talent Scout for:
Talent-Fusion Agency (317) 951-2230
FAX (866) 737-6560
320 N. Meridian Suite 901
Indianapolis, IN 46204
e-mail: mike@talent-fusion.com
Web: www.talent-fusion.com
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Acting / Film-TV /Vocal –Music Work
• Vincent - 48 Hour Film Project, Indianapolis Aug 2013
• Walter – Featured Extra, Indiana Exteriors Shoot,
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2016335/June 2013.
• The Stage – Indy film lead – PJ Roberts French– 2011
• The Departure Lounge – featured extra July 2010
• Relaunch-Indy film lead –Jennings- April 2010
"Relaunch" won several awards at the 2011Envision Film Festival
Taylor University. Best Picture, Audience Choice, Best Liberal Arts Film
• Away in a Manger-Featured Film Extra – NY 2009
• Footloose-the Musical–Rev Moore-July 2007
• Lend Me a Tenor February 2007 Clinton County Civic
• Lend Me a Tenor – 1992 RBBS
Midwestern Premier – Role of Tito Merelli
• Disorder in the Court – Judge Titus Clapham - CCC
• Wonderful Town – - Orchestra Director RBSS
• Children of Eden –Footlight Musicals (Piano 3) Indy
• Brigadoon – Mr. Lundy – Orchestra Director RBSS
• Guys and Dolls - Orchestra Director RBSS
• Jesus Christ Superstar - Music Director/Coach RBSS
• I’ll Be Back After Midnight – George – RBSS
• On Golden Pond – The Postman - RBSS
• The Boys Next Door – Incidental Characters - RBSS
• A Thousand Clowns – Leo Herman, “Chuckles” -RBSS
• Barefoot in the Park – Mr. Velasco - RBSS
• Never Too Late - Harry Lambert – SST
• Indianapolis Arts Chorale – Tenor / Soloist
• Dick Wolfsie A.M. Indiana –Soloist
• Zone 3B Chairman for HS - ICDA & ISSMA 7 Years
• Regency Advanced Vocal / Advanced Champion
• Theater-In-The-Woods – an Evening with Sondheim
• Regency International Competition –Adv. Winner
• Mooresville Comm. Music Society – Tenor Soloist
• Gospel Jubilee Recording
Setting of Local Residents Lyric to music
• Clinton County Children’s Theater Dir. 1997 – 2003
• Mousetrap – Christopher Wren – SST
• Handel’s Messiah – Tenor Soloist (Multiple concerts)
• South Pacific–Emile de Becque–Wyoming /Indiana
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Music/Stage Director
Red Barn Theater/Shawnee Summer Stock
• The Mikado Oct 2008 & Jan 2009- Director/Producer
• Is There Life After High School - Orchestra Director
• Cabaret- Orchestra Director - Red Barn (RBS)
• Guys and Dolls- Orchestra Director – RBS
• The Student Prince- Director – Shawnee Stock (SST)
• Damn Yankees – Director – SST
• The King and I – Director – SST
• Camelot – Director – SST
FRANKFORT, INDIANA - Stage Director
• The Sound of Music
• Oliver
• Annie Get Your Gun
• Anything Goes
• A Funny Thing Happened (Forum)
• Man of La Mancha
• Kiss me Kate
• The Man Who Came to Dinner
BLOOMFIELD, INDIANA – Stage Director
• Harvey – Director- Bloomfield
• Fiddler on the Roof – Director- Bloomfield
• You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown – Bloomfield
• South Pacific – Director- Bloomfield
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Indianapolis Opera Chorus 1998-2004 Seasons
2003 – 2004 Season- Rigoletto
2002 – 2003 Season -La Traviata, *Die Fledermaus (Chorus, ballroom dancer & soloist), La Boheme
2001 – 2002 Season -Aida (High Priest), Samson & Delilah
2000 – 2001 Season -Don Giovanni, Il Trovatore
1999 - 2000 Season –Tosca, Faust
1998 - 1999 Season - The Barber of Seville, The Flying Dutchman, Macbeth
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*PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND WEB LINKS *
StarNow.com – Entertainment Industry professional = http://www.starnow.com/michaeljpeterson
Explore Talent.com - vocal coach/performer = http://www.exploretalent.com/michaelpeterson7
Betterfly.com - Voice/Audition Coach/Instructor = http://betterfly.com/

Previous speaking roles

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I have a following at: https://www.n1m.com/michaeljpeterson I have posted a variety of recordings here as well as activities listed on IMDb as a professional page. https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm10405362?rf=cons_nm_chgpimage&ref_=cons_nm_chgpimage Wher

Intermediate

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Intermediate

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Classically trained

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Tenor

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• Pop
• Rock
• Classical
• Opera

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• Pop
• Rock
• Indie
• Electronic

• Jazz
• Classical
• Country

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Influences: Owl City, Bette Midler, Lee Greenwood, Margaret Harshaw, Irving Berline, Michael Buble, Cecilia Bartoli, Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubek, Jussi Bjorling, George Gershwin, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Others

https://www.n1m.com/michaeljpeterson Vocal Instructor 1978 - present. The Peterson Studio of Voice (studied with Margaret Harshaw [Miss Harshaw spent more than 20 seasons rostered with the New York Metropolitan Opera] - distinguished professor of voice, Indiana University. Studied with Marcia Baldwin who also had been rostered with the Metropolitan Opera).

I am a tenor with baritone range with a developed head voice/falsetto which has benefitted me in characterizations, voice overs and in playing characters of both genders.

All State Choir Zone 3B Chairman for North Central Indiana (1989-2001, rehearsal conductor for mixed choir 1989 - 2006), See acting experience for performance, directing and conducting experience in summer stock theater, Indianapolis Opera, and contract as a vocal coach for Talent Fusion Agency in Indianapolis, Indiana for which I also serve as a talent scout.

Past conducting and directing positions include being the music director for the Jackson Hole Playhouse in Jackson Hole Wyoming; Musical Director for Shawnee Summer Stock Theater in Bloomfield, Indiana; Music Director and Day Staff for the Red Barn Summer Stock Theater in Frankfort, Indiana.

I play piano sufficient to accompany, and coach singers in classical repertoire (Italian, German, French, English), Folk Singing, Pop, Alternative, Country, Musical Theater and Opera.

Students have gone on to study at universities, becoming music teachers themselves. Many have performing resumes themselves with community, university and state choirs, winning state and national competitions. I am a member of the Indiana Federation of Music Clubs, for which I have been a contest site judge, and aid for organization, affiliated with NFMC - the National Federation of Music Clubs.

• English
• Japanese

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• UK Cockney
• UK English
• USA Boston
• USA California

• USA New York
• USA Southern
• French
• German

• Italian
• Japanese

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