FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
• Standard Lesson (60 minutes): $150 • Introductory Lesson (Orientation + 90 minutes): $200
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
I teach students of all ages, voice types and levels from beginner to professional. Technique comes before genre. The main technical aim in the studio is to help students express their own, natural, pure, and style-free voice, which can be applied to any musical style or vocal field. Lessons typically include physical warm ups, breathing exercises, vocal exercises and technical work, visualizations, basic music theory and ear training, musical and repertoire work, diction work, characterization, and audition / concert preparation. However, all the training and technical mastery should serve to help the student sing from the heart, which may require a fresh look inside and even a journey toward what we really are, transcending both what we think we are and what others think we are. In this sense, the work I do with students may vary according to their readiness and willingness to progress at different levels toward voicing themselves with self-confidence. The diverse and colorful conversations I have with students in the studio range from the vocal maxims of the great Italian master Giovanni Battista Lamperti to the Thrive diet of the Canadian triathlete Brendan Brazier. In the introductory lesson I teach the fundamentals of my vocal system and I help the student to apply it to vocalization right away. With the next lesson I start teaching the Vocathletic workout. Ultimately lessons are split between technical work and repertoire work. I use Concone, The School Of Sight-Singing, with all students for technical and musical work. Sight-Singing becomes the byproduct of that work. I ask all students to read Vocal Wisdom, Maxims of Lamperti. With students who are interested in classical repertoire, the first book we work on is Vaccai. All students download the free version of Appcompanist for vocal exercises.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
RECOGNITIONS * Recognition on KLCC’s Inspiring Minds, National Public Radio’s Member Station in Oregon * Recognition with Official Citation, The Massachusetts State Senate * Certificate of Recognition by Thomas Menino, Former Mayor, Boston, Massachusetts AWARDS * Omaggio al Bel Canto Best Interpretation Award, Stelle dell'Anno Nuovo Festival, Consulate General of Italy and The Dante Alighieri Society Italian Cultural Center, MA * Winner, Honors Concert Competition, Longy School of Music, MA * Two-time Winner, Orchestra Soloist Competition, Longy School of Music, MA * Roberto Stagno Vocal Scholarship, Boston Donaudy Society, MA * Vocal Scholarship, Austria Culture Center, Istanbul, Turkey * Grant Award, Opera and Broadway Concert Project, Natick Cultural Council, MA AFFILIATIONS * Member, NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) * Member (Singer and Teacher), Boston Singers' Resource * Performer, Member (past), Boston Opera Collaborative * Bass Soloist, Section Leader (past), Quincy Point Congregational Church TEACHING POSITIONS * Vocal Instructor (past), Summer Choral Institute, The Boston Conservatory * Voice Faculty Member (past), Quincy Point Music Academy * Voice Faculty Member (past), A Street Music, Quincy EDUCATION * Graduate Performance Diploma in Voice, The Boston Conservatory * Opera Performance Program, Longy School of Music, Boston, Massachusetts * Voice - Opera Program, Istanbul University State Conservatory, Istanbul, Turkiye