Key Academy of Music
June M. Nathaniel
Managing Director - Key Academy of Music
Musical Director - CMDFTT
June Nathaniel is the principal teacher and director of the Key
Academy of Music (formerly Music School at the Normandie),
situated at 25 Alexandra Street, St. Clair.
June is a former Trinidad & Tobago Music Festival winner, as well
as a Trinity College of Music exhibition champion at age 17. She
went on to study at the Royal College of Music, London
(1960-1963) where she obtained the A.R.C.M. in Piano Teaching
and in Singing Performing.
She won two scholarships in music, to Vienna and to Munich, and
chose to go to the Hochschule Fur Musik - an opera school in
Munich- for four years, after which she spent two years at
Professor Frederick Husler's Scuola di Canto in Lugano,
Switzerland, was a member and soloist with Radio Lugano Choir
(Switzerland), and sang in Schonberg's "Die Gluckliche Hand" at La
Scala, Milan, Italy.
With a stipend from The Arts Council of Great Britain, she formed
"The Felson Trio" composed of her soprano voice, clarinet and
piano, and gave recitals throughout England and Ireland. And did
much more with many other choirs in England.
June never gave up Trinidad and on some of her extended
vacations back home was Musical Director for the first production
of Walcott's Joker of Seville and of "Who She" by the New World
Performers ('75), worked on the first recording of Joker,
rehearsed Neal & Massy All Stars for two months for the 1989
Pan is Beautiful production, and judged parang and other local
competitions.
In April 1996, she returned home to Trinidad, where she has
been sharing her time and talent with students, ever since.