Diary of a Voice Teacher

Guidelines What Does it mean to be a Singer? 1.  Your Body is your Instrument – overall health             a. plenty of SLEEP   ...

A concept that has come up several times recently in both speech and singing students is the power of the vowel.  The vowel is what a singer...

I am in the process of rereading FM Alexander's The Use of Self  and I was in Chapter 3 last week.  (A little nerdy, I know.)  The idea ...

I was reading an Agatha Christie short story the other day, in which one character mentions that it was hard to find servants who used ...

I have a musical theater student, in her late 20's, who is learning "Woman" from The Pirate Queen.  She loves the song, which ...

I had a reminder this week of the need to monitor my own coordination when I am teaching voice lessons.  I found myself consistantly physica...

Mary is making such lovely progress in her speaking.  Her breathing coordination is clearer, her head/spine balance is much better.  Mary wa...