IVA Singers Bootcamp 2026

2:00 - 2:10 p.m.

Welcome and Warm-Up

with Char Adams and Tom Bathgate

2:15 - 3:00 p.m.

MT Track: Sing the Role

Vocal Technique Lab: This is a musical theatre vocal intensive designed to help singers sound stylistically correct, vocally free, and professionally castable across today’s musical theatre landscape.

Pop Track: The Unlimited Pop Singer

with Renee Maranan and Annie Little

Vocal Technique Lab: If you want to sing pop, you need a voice that can do what you want it to do – without limits. By the end of this session, singers will have a better understanding of how vocal function and style work together. They will experience creating a more consistent, reliable pop sound by adjusting how their voice is set up so they can shift tone, style, and intensity without losing control or straining.

3:05 - 3:50 p.m.

MT Track: Sing the Story, Not the Song (Part 1)

Great voices get noticed, Great storytelling gets hired.

Live Performance Coaching: This is an acting-through-song intensive for musical theatre performers looking to move past “presenting” songs and start fully embodying them. The class will help performers create audition performances that feel grounded, alive, and emotionally connected. Get over “singing nicely” and command the room with truthful, magnetic storytelling.

Pop Track: Pop Style Formula

with Renee Maranan and Chelsea Cowan

Style Lab: Pop stylization doesn't have to be a mystery. By the end of this session, singers will learn a simple, practical formula for pop stylization. They will learn how to think of pop stylization in a more concrete way, using tangible elements to create a pop aesthetic that is intentional, iconic, and uniquely their own, without sacrificing vocal balance and control.

3:55 - 4:40 p.m.

MT Track: Sing the Story, Not the Song (Part 2)

Live Performance Coaching Continued.

Pop Track: The 5-Second Hook

with Renee Maranan, Chelsea Cowan, and Annie Little

Strategy Session:It only takes five seconds for listeners to decide whether they like a song or not. Take the guesswork out of being a captivating performer, and learn real-world strategies for making those first few moments count.

4:45 - 5:30 p.m.

MT Track: Auditions Are Not About You (and that’s the Good News)

Mental Health Initiative: This is a conversation about how to create your own internal resilience while facing the realities of comparison, judgement, and the stresses around auditioning. How to own what is yours and let go of what is not. This will be a panel format.

Pop Track: Owning the Pop Process

with Chelsea Cowan and Annie Little

Live Performance Coaching: Own your song and your creative process. Learn how to think strategically about your artistic and vocal goals, assess your vocal performances constructively, and apply technique and stylization choices in a way that makes a real impact, in real time.

5:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Networking

After these info-packed sessions, join us for a networking social. Connect with singers and artists from around Utah, you never know who you might meet.