FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
The first lesson is 30 minutes for $40 so we can meet on Zoom, you can ask any questions you have, and sing something for me to a backing track or video if you would like to. After that, most students take an hour long lesson each week for $75 an hour. If you would like to take a 45 minute lesson, that price is $60 a lesson. A few students like to take a lesson every other week, which is fine. We are working with the muscles around your vocal cords, and they need to be strengthened the same way you would work with muscles at the gym. So if you don't take the lessons at least every other week, we won't be able to make much progress.
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
Working to build and strengthen your voice. Introducing you to songs that are right for you. Helping you bring your own personal life stories into your singing performances. Working with you on audition songs for shows and college admissions. Teaching your how to take care of your voice when you are sick or hoarse.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
Initially, I attended NYU Tisch School of the Arts in their Musical Theater program, and continued studying at NYU Gallatin independent study program where I graduated with honors. In the past 20 years, I have continued to study singing with the best teachers I can find. Not only do I work on my own voice with them, but I apprentice to them by bringing in recordings of my students and asking them about the next level I should work on with my teaching. The most recent voice teacher I have studied / apprenticed to is Debra Byrd - who was the head voice coach on American Idol for the first ten years of the show, and is currently a Voice Teacher on NBC-TV's "The Voice," the Chair of the Vocal Program at Musicians Institute in LA, CA, and Artist-in-Residence at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA.