For inquiries, you can email me at korrieyamaoka@gmail.com or find me on instagram @korrieyamaoka.

Hey! I’m Korrie Yamaoka, and I'm a vocal coach, music director, and host of the Studying the Song podcast, where I talk all things auditioning and vocal styling for musical theatre. I’ve got a masters education in musical theatre history and repertoire as well as an undergraduate degree in music and years of cover bands and singer songwriter performances. (See my official bio below for the deets.)

I’m a mom and wife. I’m vegan/plant-based. And, I ritually purchase plants and forget to water them. I dream of having a home herbal apothecary where I can cure my everyday ills with homemade potions and teas, but again, the watering factor.

As a Vocal Coach, I love working with singers who:
a) want to zero in on styling their vocals for specific eras and genres of musical theatre
b) love to explore how songwriting structure and musical elements inform their storytelling choices
c) freaking love to sing and are willing to relentlessly pursue "the work"
d) want to create a deliciously diverse audition book

As a Musical Director, you'll find me working on projects that are either:
a) new works that feature a rock band in the pit
b) personally inspiring scores that kick my butt in the conductor/keyboard chair (e.g. Violet, Hadestown - dream show!)
c) anything with dreamy ensemble harmonies

As a composer and songwriter, my music blends elements of folk, pop, jazz, and theatre. I’ve recorded an album (Illumine) that’s available on itunes, written for theatre, and continue to produce genre-bending music that is somewhere between concept album and a theatre performance.

I have wildly diverse history of experiences and have become my own unique combination of talents, skills, and passions. I believe this really applies to every performer - each of us has our own unique greatness that we bring to the stage.

xo,
Korrie

Korrie Paliotto is a music director and vocal coach in San Diego, CA. A specialist in musical theatre history and contemporary pop/rock performance styles, Korrie explores the intersection of rock music and musical theatre and has been a guest lecturer at Musical Theatre Educator’s Alliance (MTEA), Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), Pomona College, and San Diego Repertory Theatre Surround Events.

Selected music direction credits include White Christmas (Gateway Playhouse, NY), Phantom (Gateway Playhouse), Beth Malone: So Far (New York and San Diego), Everybody’s Talkin’ (San Diego Repertory Theatre with Alice Ripley and Greg Jbara), Violet (San Diego Repertory Theatre), Cabaret (AMDA College and Conservatory, Los Angeles).

As a teaching artist, she is strongly committed to educating the next generation of performers and has directed shows and outreach programs at the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts, San Diego Opera, San Diego Junior Theatre, and Pacific Children’s Theatre. She loves to work with young people because of their unbridled belief that the world is full of possibilities and that they can (and should) make the world a better place for us all.

M.F.A in Musical Theatre, San Diego State University; B.A. in Music, San Diego State University.