Teaching Staff

Our TAGteach™ certified staff consists of highly regarded professional dancers and performing artists, each with exceptional teaching experience. Our teachers cultivate enthusiasm in our students through their own joy in dance and out of their sincere love for children (we TAG, we don’t nag!).

David Testa
David is celebrating his 33rd year as one of Boston's most respected pop, jazz and musical theater vocal coaches and technicians. While maintaining a studio on Boston common, Mr. Testa had the good fortune to work, as a coach, teacher and mentor, with Broadway performers, theatre, rock and pop stars alike.  His resume is extensive - here are a few highlights:

• Vocal Coach to American Idol Finalists (most notably Constantine Maroulis) 
• Preliminary Judge for American Idol in NYC
• Many year alliance with "Aerosmith" as a vocal specialist.

"David Testa's voice students are ALWAYS prepared, ALWAYS intuitively sing the right song, and, most importantly, ALWAYS sound GREAT!"
- Bernard Telsey Casting Inc. NY, NY

An accomplished performer himself, David has appeared in many varied lead roles in Musical Theatre. More recently, David has musically directed and sung back-up for many locally produced CD's recorded in the Boston area (including the talented Leah Langefeld). 

Mr. Testa proves his confident versatility as he is also often called on as a guest musical director/composer for such varied opportunities as the "Boy's Club Telethon" to the first (and flop!) production of The Who approved "Tommy - The Musical", in addition to the many regional pit orchestras he has conducted.

"Simply, I would not be the singer I am without David"

- Josh Young - National tour, Les Miserables "Marius" (presently) International Tour, West Side Story "Tony"

Mr. Testa has served as Accompanist/Musical Director for Saturday Night Live's Terry Sweeney and his hit off-Broadway show "It's Still My Turn", a one "woman" show featuring Terry as Mrs. Nancy Reagan! As a result, David had a turn touring as the inimitable and infamous "Kandy Kane's" musical director/concubine as well as accompanying many of Boston's jazz greats.

More locally, a sought after adjudicator at both Emerson College and Berklee College of Music, he was a vocal judge for the New England Finalists at the North Shore Music Theater's Karaoke contest.  

"He is simply a 'miracle worker' with the human singing voice."
- Richard Itczak, Artistic Director - Turtle Lane Playhouse

 
For the past five years, David has maintained a lovely home in Beverly's Cove area, where he was care-taker for his beloved mom, Marcie and continued to work privately as a vocal coach.

[Top]

Our 2009-2010 season instructors include:

Beth Wheeler: Ballet, tap, jazz, preschool, primary (director, A Dancer’s Dream; VP and co-founder, TAGteach International)

Sarah Cook: Hip hop, preschool, primary (assistant director, A Dancer’s Dream)

Elloree Crowe: Theatre Dance

Tabitha Liversidge: Classical & contemporary ballet

Rocky Mendes: Rhythm tap

Joey Mirabile : Theatre Dance

Smaranda Moisescu: Rhythmic gymnastics

Suzanne Perdue: Classical & Contemporary Ballet, Jazz, Tap

Melissa Powers: Jazz, tap (NE Dance Champion)

Cheri Spencer: Tap, jazz (NE Dance Champion)

David Testa : Acclaimed Vocal Coach, Accompanyist & Musical Director