Corinne Letourneau

Originally from Hendersonville, North Carolina, Corinne has a diverse musical background, and has been teaching and performing professionally for over 20 years. She began her career at The Flat Rock Playhouse (State Theater of N.C.), studying with their youth program and performing on the mainstage. During high school she toured around the country three summers as a dancer in Hoctor’s Dance Caravan, and attended the NC Governor’s School in 1992, singing first soprano in their Choral Music program. Corinne also studied and taught dance and gymnastics classes several nights a week at Pat’s School of Dance as a way to pay for her own lessons.

Corinne received her BFA in Musical Theatre from Florida State University in 1999, and has played several lead roles in theaters around the country, including Sarah (Guys and Dolls), Maggie (A Chorus Line), Yonah (Children Of Eden), Maggie (Brigadoon) and Liesl (Sound of Music), as well as first-chair trumpet in the pit orchestras of The Music Man and Three-Penny Opera. After college, Corinne sang at Disney World in Orlando, FL, with world-renowned a cappella group Voices of Liberty, and toured with hip-hop group Raination in New York City, playing several festivals and opening for groups including The Black-Eyed Peas, Kanye West, The Roots, Jimmy Cliff, The Lonesome River Band, etc. While in New York, she performed at several venues including B.B. Kings, The Paramount, The Bitter End, Mexicali Blues, C.B.G.B.s, and The Baggott Inn.

In 2006, Corinne received a degree in Audio Engineering from the School of Audio Engineering (New York/Nashville), and worked under Rick Giles (#1 hit songwriter for Reba McEntire, Rascal Flatts, etc.), as a recording and mixing engineer for several Nashville artists. She recorded and co-produced an album of her own original songs, called All My Days, which is available on iTunes. Her voice can be heard on several other albums, including Harbinger (Raination), Underlay (Nashville artist Sali Hagan), and Jump Right In (GIA Publications).

Corinne currently plays roughly 175 shows a year, and is the lead singer/acoustic guitarist/keyboard player with her band High 5. In addition, she teaches voice, guitar, and piano lessons out of her home and at Wando High School. She teaches music in all genres, including musical theater, opera, rock, pop, jazz and country.