My Coach

Nazia Chaudhry

("Naz")

Nazia is a multifaceted performer and musician. She is an accomplished singer, actor, voice over talent, songwriter, arranger, and educator. She enjoys teaching all levels and has served as a coach for many of Dallas and D.C.'s most gifted performers. In 2009, Nazia was Music Director and vocal instructor for the world-renown Septien Entertainment Group’s Summer Vocal Camps in Dallas. She likes to instill confidence in students with a customized approach designed for each individual student's needs. She encourages healthy belting techniques for singers and introduces other important concepts for freeing the voice, and incorporates acting methodology during lessons. Nazia currently maintains both a private and online studio, where she coaches singers of all genres as well as many speakers, business professionals, voice over artists, on camera actors, and professional performers under artist management.

Nazia has performed in hundreds of productions from stage to screen. She has studied under some of the nation's best voice and acting coaches, including Vera Katz, Brenna McDonough, Brett Manning, Tom McKinney, Renee Grant-Williams, and Rosana Eckert. She has also been represented by the top acting and voice over agents in Atlanta, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia.  While attaining her bachelor’s degree from the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, she began her professional singing career as a soprano soloist in Florida. Nazia has performed throughout New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Dallas, and Atlanta in film, commercials, industrials, voice overs, musicals, opera and regional theatre. The shows that have garnered reviews in The Washington Post, Potomac Stages, and Talkinbroadway.com. She has also worked as a role player for many corporations and government agencies.

Nazia's extensive experience in jazz, pop, adult contemporary, opera, and musical theater has allowed her to share her passion for performance and singing with audiences from children to dignitaries, and from large stadiums and concert halls to intimate jazz clubs. Nazia was a National Anthem singer at RFK Stadium for the Washington Nationals. She toured internationally throughout Spain as a featured jazz soloist with Jubilate, one of South Florida's highly acclaimed vocal groups. She also toured regionally with Jubilate, performing in concerts with Grammy Award-winning singer Bobby McFerrin, Latin Grammy Award-winning flautist Nestor Torres, actor/singers Clifton Davis and Harry Belafonte, and Metropolitan Opera soprano Marvis Martin.

Currently, Nazia is working on her debut album release.  She still acts and sings professionally around Atlanta, while pursuing her master's degree in jazz studies at Georgia State University. Nazia performs regularly at the 5 Seasons Prado in Sandy Springs, GA  with Drive-By Big Band, which is a group  comprised of Atlanta's top musicians.  For two years, Nazia also attended master's courses at the prestigious University of North Texas School of Music. She performed on a tour around Georgia with the GSU Big Band and has performed with the UNT Jazz Singers, The Wall of Jazz, George Romano & The Euphoria, and toured throughout Texas with D-Town, a vocal project commissioned by the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau. She has had the honor of performing for the Mayor and City Council of Dallas as well as for the Chinese Consulate and Georgia's state representatives.

Some of Nazia’s other credits include: The Kennedy Center, Rialto Center for Performing Arts, Atlanta's Symphony Hall at  Woodruff Performing Arts Center, Hard Rock Café DC, Hewlett-Packard, Discovery Channel, Georgia Lottery, Good Morning Houston (ABC), and San Antonio Living (NBC), TXU Energy, JC Penney, Superpages, National Geographic, Winner of Mrs. India East Coast 2006, voice actor for Japanese anime at FUNimation, The Smithsonian’s Discovery Theater, Studio Theatre, Victorian Lyric Opera Company, Wooly Mammoth Theater, Studio Theater, South Asian Literary & Theatre Arts Festival, and Washington Savoyards.