Margot Hanson

Margot Hanson’s professional background includes jazz, opera, Broadway theater, television, and radio. She sang with the National Jazz Ensemble in New York and was a guest with the Swedish Radio Jazz Orchestra. She spent five years with the San Francisco Opera Company. She was in the original Broadway cast of “Promises, Promises” as well as the original Off-Broadway cast of “Now is the Time for All Good Men”. She sang as a regular guest on the Arthur Godfrey radio show and has recorded with United Artists, Columbia Records, Chiaroscuro Records, Folkways, and Spoken Arts. Since leaving New York and San Francisco for Bellingham, Washington, Margot has performed locally at the Bellingham Festival of Music and occasionally finds time to do productions in Western Washington University’s summer stock (Anna, in “The King and I”) and with the Bellingham Theatre Guild (Domina, in “Forum”), for which she won the best supporting actress award in 2000. She most recently was seen in “Once Upon a Mattress”, at the Bellingham Theatre Guild. Margot’s teaching includes workshops at the Hochschule fur Darstellendekunst in Graz, Austria, and at the Taller de Musicos in Santiago and Madrid, Spain. She is an associate of Michael Warren (New York City) and participates in his Intensive seminars both in New York and Bellingham. She has a private studio in Bellingham where she has been teaching vocal technique and repertoire since 1986. Her first solo album is, "It's About the Song", and she has most recently recorded her second solo album entitled, “I’d Rather Be Singing". Professional MySpace Layouts by Iron Spider