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About Michelle Kopper

Michelle Kopper Seymour  returned to Portland in 2004, after 16 years performing and teaching in NYC, with a passion for teaching and a strong commitment to the artistic process. Michelle is the owner of Vanport Square Studio where  she combines 25 years as a professional actor/singer with over a decade of yoga & dance meditation to bring unique insight to her classes and workshops.

Michelle is a certified teacher of both Rasa Yoga and The Nia Technique. Breath, movement & sound are an integral part of all her work. Michelle also teaches the Summer Teen Musical Intensive at Portland Center Stage and is honored to serve as the President of the Portland Area Theatre Alliance.

About Her Music:
Singer-songwriter Michelle Kopper’s music is at once personal and universal; her compositions are intimate, soul-searching, sweetly edgy, yet sharply ironic/neurotic. In most of her music, love and doubt intermingle until they merge into a single sensation. She subjects herself to a fresh examination of earlier sins from her younger life with a hesitantly searing, fiercely stinging longing that can suddenly yield serene revelation.

Her genre-defying sound combines narrative with brute confession. With a touch of R&B, a bit of rock, a hint of folk and a dash of jazz, Kopper’s sound is haunting, poignant, and a helluva lot of fun. Original EP release available on  CD Baby.