Professional Profile

Professional Profile

Brenda McDooling Duce is an established Independent Music Professional.  As a professional Music Director, Musician, Pianist and Keyboardist, her Broadway Musical Theatre Direction, Orchestration and Performance credits include Les Misérables, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Nunsense, Sweet Charity, Two By Two, Kiss Me Kate, The Pajama Game, Crazy For You, Me And My Girl, Anything Goes, The King And I, Oklahoma, Guys And Dolls, The Boy Friend, No, No Nanette, Bye Bye Birdie and the Operetta Tom Sawyer.

As Owner of Starbound Music Studios, her musical credits include signature Artist/Entertainer in The Firestarter Piano Lounge at Casino Rama. She has held the positions of Senior Advanced Piano/Theory Instructor/Consultant with The Melody in Me Academy of Music and Performing Arts (formerly Cingolani) and Administrator/Teaching Co-Ordinator of Peel Music School, among multiple professional positions as Music Director, including South Simcoe and Orangeville Music Theatres, and Guest Artist for Theatre Orangeville. She has enjoyed a full-time career schedule of accompanying, adjudicating, consulting, directing, mentoring, performing and teaching.

Ms. McDooling has worked with Actors, Artistic Directors, Choreographers, Dancers, Directors, Entertainers, Playwrights, Producers and Singers from 3SG Talent Management, ACT-CO Festival, Barrie Jazz & Blues Festival, Calgary Winter Olympics, Casino Rama, Catherine Faint Entertainment Incorporated, Charlottetown Festival, Cingolani Academy of Music & Performing Arts, Deerhurst Inn, Firestarter Lounge, Hockley Valley Centre of The Arts, J. C. Dance Troupe, Joy of Performing Arts Academy, Kiwanis Music Festival, Northern River Arts & Entertainment, Orangeville Music Theatre, Roland & Romaine Productions, South Simcoe Theatre, Stage West, Stratford Festival, Theatre Orangeville, The Melody In Me Academy Of Music & Performing Arts, Toronto Sky Dome, Toronto Smile Theatre, and has accompanied lead soloists of the Canadian Opera Company and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Brenda is certified by the National Ballet School in advanced piano accompaniment for dance, the Royal Conservatory Of Music in advanced classical piano performance and theory and holds Teaching diplomas from the Royal Conservatory Of Music (classical), the Technics Music Academy (pop keyboard), and a Teaching diploma specializing in the Kelly-Kirby Kindergarten Piano Method. She has held memberships with The Ontario Registered Music Teachers’ Association (ORMTA), The Canadian Federation of Music Teachers’ Association (CFMTA), The Georgian Triangle Music Teachers’ Association (GTMTA), and The Songwriters Association of Canada (SAC).

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