FAQs
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
1. Getting to know their voice by exploring the existing range and abilities. I do this by having them sing something they are comfortable with then vocalizing them throughout voice 2. Begin at the beginning: start with teaching correct breathing and then coordinate phonation into the exhale part of breathing. 3. Add the musical phrase....one at a time slowly, until the student begins to master the coordination and timing of correct breath intake to release into creating tone and phrase.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
I have worked with every king of singing aspirant from ten year old child to mature men and women.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
I became fascinated with the process of voice development as a freshmen in a Bachelor of Music program at Marymount College in Tarrytown, NY. I had vocal issues that needed special handling and a teacher who understood how to fix vocal problems. I got hooked! I took my first voice student in my sophomore year and, with the hands-on help of my teacher, (Whitfield Lloyd Schanzer), I learned the process from the bottom up. By my senior year, I created and taught a special speech class for the acting majors as well as continuing to teach my private voice students. I was offered a teaching position at the college before I had completed my final exams. I taught at Marymount for 13 years. During that time, I went on and received a Master of Music Degree in voice and opera from Manhattan School of Music.