Faculty Profile

Michelle Hackman

NMS Voice Faculty

Michelle Hackman has been teaching voice and performing professionally in the Chicagoland area since 2001. Graduates of her studio have gone on to study, and to major in musical-theatre, vocal-performance, music-education, music- business, music-therapy, and vocal-jazz performance at many of the most prestigious colleges in the country including NYU, Berklee, Emerson, Belmont, and Northwestern. Many of her students are also award-winning singers receiving acknowledgements from The Schmidt Competition, Classical Singer Vocal Competition, and numerous college talent scholarships. She has also had students audition for and participate in some of the most prestigious summer programs in the world including: The High-School Music Theater and Classical Vocalist Programs at Interlochen, ISYM, Broadway Break-Thru, Oberlin Vocal Performance Program, and Tanglewood Young Artist's Program through Boston University.

Ms. Hackman is also an award-winning performer herself and enjoys performing primarily opera and musical-theatre and holds a BFA and MFA from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.