NORTH COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
ABOUT US
Founded in 1998 by professional singers and teachers Pamela Laurent and Scott Gregory, the Voice Studio, and now the North County School of the Arts, offers a comprehensive teaching curriculum that empowers students to become better singers, actors, dancers, and performers.
Students of all levels and aspirations are welcome. The spectrum of our students ranges from beginners, gaining their first performing arts experience, to experienced performers who want to sharpen their technique. We warmly welcome beginning students, and are supportive of all new students. We also pride ourselves in keeping lessons and classes as challenging as students desire, as well as adjusting our teaching style to match a student’s ambition.
NCSA is committed to a professional staff of working professionals/performers who can better relate to, teach, and motivate our students. Students are enabled to use these instructors as a resource for real-world performing situations.
Our students have performed at some of the region's most prestigious venues: The Old Globe, The Staples Center, Moonlight, The Starlight Theater, North Coast Repertory Theater, and even at Padre's games!
In addition to local and national performing, our students have been accepted into some of the most prestigious university programs in the United States. This year, our students have been accepted to USC (Thornton School of Music,) Baldwin Wallance Musical Theater Dept., Boston Conservatory of Music, Vanderbilt (Blair School of Music), Chapman, Redlands, Rider University and many others. Our students work hard, and their instructions helps them achieve their goals and dreams.
OUR STAFF
Pamela Laurent
Voice Instructor, Vocal Coach, Director, Professional Singer
Pamela, along with her husband, Scott Gregory, co-founded the Voice Studio in 1996, and North County School of the Arts. (NCSA) She also oversees the Best of Broadway camps, classes and private music lessons for NCSA. Laurent is the Artistic Director for Ovation Theatre's Musical Theatre Productions (previously a part of NCSA) and has directed over 15 productions: Anything Goes, Beauty and the Beast, Guys and Dolls, Cinderella, Into the Woods, Shrek, the Musical, Oliver!, Seussical, The Wizard of Oz, Oklahoma!, Annie Get Your Gun, Annie, Honk!, and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and more.
Originally a professional singer and performer, Pamela has performed in musicals and operas in the US and abroad. She sang the role of Mme Giry with the international cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera in Hamburg, Germany for more than 500 performances. On the operatic stage, Pamela has performed leading roles with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Whitewater Opera, Seattle Opera, National Opera Company, and Lyric Opera of San Diego. She has sung leading roles in Carmen, Hansel and Gretel, The Marriage of Figaro, La Cenerentola, The Tales of Hoffmann and The Merry Widow, as well as many others.
Laurent began her career in Chicago with the Lyric Opera of Chicago. While there, she was a Metropolitan Opera district finalist and 1st prize winner for Chicago’s Bel Canto Competition.
Scott Gregory
Voice Instructor, Vocal Coach, Director, Professional Singer
The North County School of the Arts (NCSA), founded in 1996, and the Voice Studio are the creation of Scott and his wife, Pamela Laurent. Together they have built one of North Counties premier places to learn from working professionals, the requirements of acting, singing and dancing on the professional stage and in front of a camera.
In addition to the acting, dance and singing classes that are offered through the NCSA, Scott, and Pamela, teach a select number of private voice students in their private studios.
Scott serves as the Music Director and Set Coordinator for the Ovation Theatre's Musical Theatre Productions (previously a part of NCSA) and has music directed over 15 productions: Anything Goes, Beauty and the Beast, Guys and Dolls, Cinderella, Into the Woods, Shrek, the Musical, Oliver!, Seussical, The Wizard of Oz, Oklahoma!, Annie Get Your Gun, Annie, Honk!, and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and more.
Scott Gregory started his career as an operatic baritone. He has been seen throughout the U.S. and Europe. He has sung extensively in San Diego, singing Figaro, in the The Barber of Seville, the Father in Hansel and Gretel, the Father in the world premier of Rumplestiltskin, and many others. He has been heard as Guglielmo, in Cosi Fan Tutte, Top, The Tender Land, Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, Dandini, in Cinderella, Mr. Ford in Falstaff and others. He sang almost 1000 performances of Raoul, Vis. de Chagny and Msr. Andre' in the German production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera.
In addition to his teaching responsibilities through the Voice Studio and the NCSA, Scott is on the Voice Faculty at the University of San Diego.
Scott's students have been seen on the professional stages in New York, London, and San Diego, etc. as well as in many Television shows.
Scott is a member of the National Association of Singing (NATS)