Founders
About the Founders:
Tom Frazee has been performing since he was 15, and has been full time faculty at Berklee College of Music and UNLV for a ten year period. During his tenure at Berklee, Tom was instrumental in starting several top level programs. Two stand out programs are below.
Most "interestingly notable" was John Scarpulla, who before joining the ensemble had never played "funk" or anything but straight ahead jazz. He got hooked and became a natural. 4 years after leaving Berklee, he auditioned for the tenor book with the real TOP. When he walked into the audition, he put the music stand behind him and played 6 songs with the band from memory...back from the days of the Berklee Ensemble. Needless to say he got the gig and performs regularly with Diana Ross, Billy Joel and other top touring acts
Since leaving academia, Tom has pursued all areas of music technology, and has become a lecturer for several different software platforms. During the late 80's after leaving Berklee, Tom was honored to work with arranger, manager, composer, Joe Zito. Joe was Musical director for Nat King Cole and conducted the Ed Sullivan Orchestra.
For the last 20 years, he and his partner have run Admagination Studios, a northwest audio for broadcasting production facility. Tom has been working with technology in music since 1984. He brings to this project and beyond his vision of a clear, fast track Educational Model that has been in beta development for over 4 years.
Nancy Roché has been a professional singer / songwriter / actress since the age of 15. As a vocalist, she has an extensive resume of live and recording projects that have taken her around the world.
After moving to LA in the late 80's, she became a staff vocalist and "ghost" lyrist for Columbine Records. This was a recording studio and publisher that specialized in making demos for songwriters. It was her job to not only be vocally adaptive but to be able to tweak lyrics that didn't quite flow.
Nancy is Creative Director at Admagination Studios, writing and performing on over 300 radio ads and station ID packages in over 48 markets nationwide. The music school will utilize her classical vocal foundations, contemporary vocal performing along with her vocal CV “Discover Your Voice” exclusively.
Here writing career includes her own album of self-penned originals, a unique facet of their business...commissioned songs and of course the hundreds of jingles. It's important to know that Admaginations custom jingle production creates more than just a title and phone number. Our full sing versions and sing outs require just as much creative writing as songs do.