is the founder of both Performers Career Center and The West Village Musical Theatre Festival. He is a medically-trained voice physiologist and highly-regarded as a master teacher in the fields of functional and performance mechanics, and has served as the PDP (Professional Development Program) Director of the New York Singing Teachers' Association and is in current demand as a lecturer in master classes and programs all over the country and abroad. Specializing in popular opera, legit musical theatre and contemporary repertoire, his own professional performance career has spanned over thirty years in venues ranging from Broadway to international opera houses and concert halls and as a featured performer on Cunard's Queen Mary 2. Mr. Wickham has been featured as an vocal consultant/expert for Inside Edition, Vh1, and ESPN, Time Out, The New Yorker, Backstage and the Village Voice. His students include many celebrities and professional singers who have appeared on and off Broadway as leads and supporting players in over eighty shows nationally, as well as principal and supporting performers at tier 1 opera houses across the country and Europe. His students are signed with record labels such as Jive, Atlantic, Universal, Virgin, So So Def and Sony Music. In addition to studies in voice and composition at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, the Manhattan School of Music, and The Juilliard School, Mr. Wickham has pursued studies in voice anatomy and physiology (specializing in developmental Otolaryngology) at the renowned Bill Wilkerson Center (Vanderbilt Medical School) under the tutelage of Dr. Robert Ossoff. He is a proud student and protege of Maitland Peters, Chairman of the Voice Department at the Manhattan School of Music. An accomplished professional stage actor, Mr. Wickham also studied extensively for five years at the William Esper Studio (with Bill Esper directly) where he later teacher-trained and became affiliate faculty. He has also trained at Stella Adler, HB Studios, Jon Dapolito Studios and The Actor's Studio.
