Marieke Schuurs, BM, MFA, is a lyric soprano classical singer and a mezzo-soprano character and jazz singer.  She performs opera and jazz throughout the Pacific Northwest.  Marieke's voice training studio, Cantare Voice Studio, is located in Eugene, Oregon.  As a vocal trainer, Marieke specializes in classical technique and body awareness work for all types of singers, actors and for public speakers. 

Marieke began her training at the University of California, Irvine.  After college, she taught at community colleges, sang and conducted choirs at churches, and performed as a professional caroler during the holiday season.  She moved to Eugene in 1996, where she opened Cantare Voice Studio, and continued her own voice training by entering the studio of Ms. Ellen Faull, formerly of New York City Opera.  She also began training in Bodymapping with Barbara Conable (author of What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body) and completed her training as an Andover Educator in 2006

Marieke has sung with the Eugene Opera, Willamette Concert Opera and the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus.  She has conducted the Girlchoir for Oregon Festival Childrens’ Choirs and was Chorus Master for Eugene Opera from 1999 - 2004.   She has been a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) since 1986. She has adjudicated voice competitions for both the Oregon Music Educators Association (OMEA) and NATS.  

Marieke performs as part of a vocal/piano jazz duo, Afterhours-jazz.  She also founded and directs Yuletime Carolers.  In her vast amounts of spare time, she enjoys the company of her two teenage daughters and her fiance and rides her Harley Davidson.