Voice Instructor – All Styles Solo – Ensemble – Diction

Linda’s enthusiastic and encouraging teaching style reaches all ages with a classic and fun foundation of vocal training. She then imports the foundational principals into all styles of vocal music. Contemporary, Pop, Broadway, Classical, UIL Competitions, theatre audition preparation and more!

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

MAYA ANGELOU

“For Linda, Who uses both heart and head in beautiful balance . . AND transforms us with her is-ness.”

JANE MARSHALL

CHECK OUT AN EARLIER ALBUM: She collaborated on portions of her cousin’s album as pianist, arranger, singer and composed music for one selection. Check out “Lullabies and Little Ditties” on Amazon!

Piano Educator & Ensemble Coaching

Linda has a broad background in piano education and styles. Her beginners use the entire keyboard in their very first lesson with the Frances Clark series. Or are you an adult that wishes to pick up where you left off and want to learn how to practice and have fun? Are you a piano player that wants to learn how to “add” and fill out a hymn or tune? This is your studio!

Voice Over Artist

Mark from Lubbock, an Apple Music listener wrote about the Christmas album, “Awesome.” 12/12/21

Composer: Piano, Choral, Musical Theater, Kids Music

Stream/Purchase Her Piano Christmas Release at itunes, Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon

Enjoy musical reveries of comfort and joy! All tracks are improvisations from one or two takes without music, just inspiration. The album includes two original pieces. “Wise Travelers” and an “O Holy Child of Bethlehem” which was composed as a choral round and is now reimagined ! Share with your friends. Give it a review!

Kim from Lebanon, IL on 12/12/21 wrote about the Christmas album, “I am sitting here listening. A beautiful way to end my day! Thank you for sharing your gift!”

Linda Baumheckel – 317-902-9817

FASCINATING FACTS An 18 year old Linda began writing musicals for two summers, with co-writer and lyricist Mark Hawbecker, for a Chicagoland Park District children’s theatre. They were both actors and she was the Music Director. One of the shows “Freedom’s Ring” went on to be selected and produced by their hometown’s Bicentennial Commission for a community auditorium performance. It was also picked up by an Ohio high school to produce and perform. Linda and Mark’s high school choral director invited her to arrange the show’s pivotal song “Liberty” for mass choir and instruments that was performed in the Spring concert and recorded on an LP. When she was 20 she partnered with a local Cincinnati TV and theatre actor, Jack Williams. He needed a composer for his lyrics and show “Of Dragons and Dwarves.” The show was produced by the Cincinnati Marimont Players and found its way to Mary Martin’s Casa Manana Theatre in Fort Worth for a run. Linda went on to write and create shows and music scores for church children’s choirs, and a variety of special events including a Las Vegas National Student Broadcaster’s convention and wrote and performed a song for a CBS Network Sunday Morning show, “The Year of the Child.“

Linda began her higher musical education at Chicago’s Roosevelt University Conservatory of Music as a double major in voice and piano.  Pre-college she studied piano with the renown Elvina Truman Pearce, and was offered two separate college piano scholarships. While at Roosevelt she simultaneously toured the country as keyboard player in the Jamz Dutton’s Rosewood Rebellion percussion band playing university, community concerts and programs in public schools.

Linda received her B.F.A. in Broadcasting from the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music having studied voice with Patricia Berlin. She was also active in NBC’s public service television as musician and host which extended into radio. Cincinnati birthed her church music career as pianist/organist, and went on to become a contemporary worship band and handbell choir director. She evolved into a full time Church Music Director covering 30 plus years of voice and piano teaching, four recording projects, and directed two choir tours to Germany and Switzerland. As pianist, she joined a third tour to Germany for the musical “Godspell.”

She personally recorded two albums as a Christian artist and sang in a Southern Gospel quartet with two recordings. She served on the voice faculty for the Texas Southern Gospel Music summer school after having founded the Austin City-Wide Southern Gospel Choir with one recording. Her career includes actress, pianist and music director for multiple community theatre groups in Ohio, Illinois, New York state and Texas, She also conducted workshops in Austin on how to audition for a community theatre musical.