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Instructor Bios
 Laurel Massé is a founding member of the Grammy
Award-winning group Manhattan Transfer, and
for seven years toured internationally recorded five albums with the
group. Laurel has toured her solo
concerts in the US
and Europe. She has released four
acclaimed solo CDs Alone Together, Easy Living, Again, and Feather and
Bone. In the course of her career Laurel has performed at such
prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, the London Palladium, Salle Pleyel de Paris, the Hollywood Bowl, the
Smithsonian Institute; jazz festivals in Montreal, Chicago, Syracuse,
Detroit and Saratoga Springs; Birdland and
the Blue Note in New York City, the Roxy Nightclub and the Cinegrill in Los Angeles, Chicago's Green Mill, and
Harrah's, Caesar's Palace, MGM Grand and the Hilton in Las Vegas and
Lake Tahoe. She was the host and resident artist of The Laurel Massé Jazz Show, a monthly live concert performance
program broadcast by WAMC Northeast Public radio. Laurel has taught Master Classes and
workshops nationally, and is a member of the teaching faculties of the
Cabaret Conference at Yale, Ashokan Fiddle
and Dance, and the Singer's Forum.
 Wendy Lane
Bailey has performed in a variety of renowned venues around
the country including Symphony Space, The Kennedy Center's Millennium
Stage, Blues Alley, The Duplex, Danny's, the Emelin
Theatre, Helen's, The Cabaret at Odette's, Don't Tell Mama, New York
City's Town Hall, the Blue Room of the Fairmont Hotel In New Orleans,
Signature Theatre, The Roslyn Spectrum Theatre, Source Theatre, The
Lyceum, Metrostage and various corporate and
private functions. Her voice can be heard both onstage and in the
recording studio backing up a diverse group of singers including
Broadway's Susan Egan, and Jason Graae, and
Pop Legend Lesley Gore. In addition to her work as a performer, she has
expanded her work into teaching, directing and coaching performers. Her
teaching credits include private coaching and master classes for such
venues as Loyola University in Baltimore MD
and The Theatre Lab of Washington, DC. She was the Associate Director
of the Cabaret Conference at Yale
University. She
is the recipient of a Backstage Bistro award and in 2007 was
nominated for a WAMA award from the Washington Area Music Association.
 Tex Arnold is a pianist,
arranger, conductor and composer, whose credits include music director,
arranger and conductor for the legendary Margaret Whiting's
radio, television, recording and symphony
orchestra performances, for over 25 years. Tex has also played and/or
conducted for Larry Adler, Sally Mayes, Ruth Brown, Sally Ann Howes, Marilyn Michaels, Julius LaRosa,
Rita Moreno, Four Girls Four (Rose Marie, Helen O'Connell, Margaret
whiting and Rosemary Clooney), Carol Hall, Dick Shawn and most recently
Melissa Erico. After leaving Michigan State,
Hubert "Tex" Arnold began his professional career in the late
60s as a staff arranger for the US Military Band at West
Point, while subbing on keyboard for the Broadway musical
Company, joining the national tour following his leaving the military. Tex served as the musical supervisor, vocal
arranger and orchestrator for the London
production of The Betrayal of Nora Blake. Prior to this Tex was the
2001 musical director for the Off-Broadway show Pete 'n' Keely, the musical director for the 2000 O'Neill
Theater Center's concerts in St. Petersburg, Russia, featuring the
songs of Johnny Mercer performed by a company of American artists
including Sally Mayes and Julie Wilson. Tex has written orchestrations
for the Lincoln Center American Songbook Series and the Carnegie Hall
tributes to the songwriting teams of Comden
& Green and Alan and Marilyn Bergman, and arranged and conducted
the Johnny Mercer Tribute at the 92nd Street Y's Lyrics & Lyricists
series for Margaret Whiting, Julius LaRosa, Carol
Woods and Marlene VerPlanck. Tex's concert music has been commissioned and
recorded, including performances of his trumpet concerto by the Los
Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, and the CBC Enterprise
release of a work commissioned by the New York Saxophone Quartet.
Photos of Laurel & Wendy
Lane by Bill Westmoreland
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