I'm a professional singer with opera and concert credits throughout the US as well as experience as a sacred soloist and cantor, and I am a creative, patient and supportive teacher with a voice studio on the Upper West Side of Manhattan (in New York City).
My approach is playful and non-judgmental and multi-sensory—using visual, auditory and kinesthetic modes of learning, and making liberal use of silly animal sounds and primal emotion and all kinds of imagery as well as elements of massage, accupressure, yoga, Alexander Technique, brain theory, physiology and anatomy. There's lots of looking in the mirror to see what you see. And feeling what you feel from within. And really noticing what you hear. And connecting to the flow of the breath—breathing deeply and powerfully, which is an incredibly healing thing in itself.
Whatever will help a student find their personal connection to themselves is what I seek to discover and work with—it's all exquisitely individually focused. I meet each student wherever they are.
It's never a question of "Do I have enough talent to do this?" (which is usually the first thing people will ask!) but rather, "What do you need in this moment to open the way to greater awareness and freedom of expression?" Whatever "level" a person is at is legitimate and beautiful, whether "professional" or "utter beginner" or even self-described "tone-deaf".
Learning to sing is not about evaluation and judgment but rather a path of appreciation and celebration of one's unique gifts, of inspiration and expansion, of manifestation of one's true voice. It is a beautiful process, a journey of discovery that is as important as its destination. It is the unfolding of one's inner self with joy.
