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Alumni

Whitney Fincher
Whitney Fincher graduated from
Georgina DiMattia

"At fifteen, there really aren't many life experiences that preapere one for performing with Ed McMahon on Star Search. Thankfully, had quite a few years of solid training with EVSPA. Ron and Sandra and their dedicated staff train their students as though every single one will be a star.

During my experience on Star Search, I found myself repeatedly relying on my training with Ron and Sandra to calm my nerves and conduct my performance in a professional fashion."

EVSPA after taking private voice lessons for 5 years. Whitney performed in the teen country group, Sunkissed, cutting a demo CD and performing across the Southeastern US.
Brittaney Morrison

When Brittaney Morrison first auditioned for the Apollo Theater in New York City, she was told that she would never make it singing a Broadway song. She was also the only minor auditioning. Brittaney held fast to the advice her EVSPA vocal teacher and to what she had been prepared to sing. Brittaney went on to sing all three competitive rounds and was noted to be the first singer to have money showered on her from the balcony. When asked how she did it, she responded; “I kept my focus on what my teacher told me to do.” Ms. Morrison has since sung for Disney and Nickelodeon, at the NAACP conference in Los Angeles, at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C., Madison Square Garden.
Melanie Hamrick
Born in Williamsburg, Virginia, Melanie Hamrick trained with Sandra Balestracci at the Eastern Virginia School of the Performing Arts for five years. She was a scholarship student for five years at the University Ballet Academy (formerly known as the Kirov Academy of Ballet) where she studied with Alla Sizova for three years, as well as Nicolai Morozov and Adrienne Dellas. She has performed the wedding pas de deux and the Bluebird pas de deux from The Sleeping Beauty and the grand pas de deux from The Nutcracker.

Hamrick attended the summer program at the School of American Ballet for three years and attended ABT’s Summer Intensive Program in 2003.

Hamrick joined ABT’s Studio Company in September 2003 and the main Company as a member of the corps de ballet in April 2004.