Mrs. Adrienne G Mondeau

Adrienne Garcia Mondeau comes from a musical family and is a third generation music teacher on her maternal side and comes from musicians and vocalists from her paternal side, as well. Adrienne teaches piano and voice. Her students usually stay with her for many years.

“I use method books, then let the students also choose what they like to perform”.  I start with a Classical piano approach and like to enter my students in the various events offered by the Music Teacher Association.  With vocal training, I teach the young children ‘singing lessons’ but never push the voice until after the voice changes, around 13 or 14 years old.  After that age, I use a Bel Canto technique to aid the voice in producing full sound without incurring problems with the vocal chords.”

Adrienne was first taught by her mother, who was a concert pianist and also played professionally with many famous and popular music groups of the past. Wanda Garcia accompanied artists like Lily Pons, Gabriel Cansino and Ruggiero Raimondi, as well as Hollywood singers, comedians and artists from the 1930’s through the 1980’s.  Both Wanda and Adrienne are written up in the Who’s Who in Entertainment from 1992 to 1998.  

Adrienne started singing and playing piano at a very young age.  She was in her elementary school orchestra, the Junior Symphony in Las Vegas and sang in school and church choirs, growing up.  In high school, Adrienne won the highest grade of the Nevada piano awards; she also studied classical voice and performed many recitals and began a professional career, early.  She received a scholarship to study music at UNLV.  

Adrienne helped her husband form a jazz/rock band, and they traveled and played around the United States for seven years. She studied with many professional musicians and vocalists as well as her academic training at UNLV.  

Adrienne’s resume includes playing piano and singing with the Nevada Opera Theater for 30 years. Some of the operas and musicals included: La Boheme, La Traviata, Madama Butterfly, Man of La Mancha, Camelot, the yearly Veteran’s celebration for the Governor during Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day events.  Adrienne also played and performed in many productions put on at Spring Mountain Ranch such as: Sweet Charity, Finian’s Rainbow and Fiddler On The Roof.

When she was with the Nevada Musical Theater Guild, they put on: South Pacific, Oklahoma and Most Happy Fella, among other productions.  One of their productions was the professional “Here’s Entertainment” at the Bourbon Street Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in the 1980’s. Adrienne still sings with the Southern Nevada Musical Arts group which performs Master Composers Choral Concerts and sings behind Andrea Bocelli when he performs at the MGM Grand. Adrienne also sings with the Myron Heaton Chorale year round.  She has traveled with them to Europe to sing at the Great Cathedrals. She has sung at the famous Salzburg Music Festival, Notre Dame in Paris and the Vatican in Rome. 

Adrienne also has her own choir and has been organist/pianist/keyboardist at Henderson Presbyterian Church for 40 years. She has taken her choir twice to sing at Carnegie Hall with world famous John Rutter.  Adrienne is a member of the Music Teachers National Association;  the Las Vegas Music Teachers Association;  the Social Register; and is Secretary of the Nevada Local SAGAFTRA Union.