Melanie Schneider

After two years at the Regensburg Opera House in Bavaria, I started working as a freelance opera singer, having specialised as a step-in. Due my nerves of steel I was able to rescue many a performance - being called a day in advance, travel, arrive and sing and play the performance as a step-in, as if I had rehearsed to full four weeks.

Of course I also sang well planned performances in theaters throughout Europe.

Having acquired an additional qualification to teach Germand language and speech training with music to pre-school children, I have worked in this field for more than a decade now. Here I am very experienced in making everybody feel welcome and spotting the specific needs of each individual child. Thus it was possible for all the children in my respective groups to learn at their individual pace, as much as they possibly could.

This made up half of my working hours. For the other half I was conducting a children's choirs, I have singing students and I sing as a classical singer on weddings and funerals.

Since April this year I have started teaching Business English 6 hours per week to adults, an occupation I would very much like to grow and enlarge.

First I was employed as a junior secretary in Dublin, in order to acquire the necessary one year work experience to obtain a position as a PA in Ireland.

Afterwards I was employed as a personal assistant/foreign language correspondet at Schmitter Ireland Ltd., in Killorglin, Co. Kerry, where I was responsible for all in- and outgoing correspondence and supported the company's CEO in all his tasks.