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Featured Voice Teachers Near Irvine, CA

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Here are just a few of the many teachers offering Voice lessons in Irvine . Whether you are looking for beginner guitar lessons for your kids, or are an adult wanting to improve your skills, the instructors in our network are ready to help you now!

Cesar B

Instruments: Voice

My approach to singing comes from the Bel Canto school of singing. Bel Canto is Italian for beautiful singing and while I was trained this way, I believe in meeting students at their vocal level and build from there. I dont subscribe to the one size fits all method because we all perceive our voices very differently. Throughout my university years, I had some teachers who got frustrated when they instructed me to sing a certain way that I could not understand and I never want my students to be confused or feel misunderstood during our lessons. Read More

Billy C

Instruments: Voice

I'm a passionate and motivated vocal instructor in Southern California. I specialize in Master Class vocals for very advance singers, but also cover the very basics to pass on master vocal knowledge to the beginner singers. I am an artist, performer, as well as a student. I believe that in order for my students to gain higher level knowledge, the most important thing is to continue to learn. The moment your desire to learn is gone, you will have stopped improving yourself as an artist.This is one advice I would like to give ALL artists! Read More

Fraser P

Instruments: Piano Voice Trumpet Euphonium

I always like to get a feel for the students ability first and then choose the right level to begin with them. I always start with some exercise work to strengthen the basics and then include a lot of fun pieces to boost the fun and satisfaction with the improvement. I am very effective at improving a players ability and enjoyment of the instrument. Read More

Leah L

Instruments: Piano Voice

I have been teaching private music lessons for 2 and a half years to students from ages 4 to 50. I've had over 15 years of performance experience, in various settings in both in piano and voice, that I apply to each of my lessons. Read More

Steve B

Instruments: Piano Voice Cello

Have fun. Love what you do. If it stops being fun push a little further ahead and see what happens. All it takes is a little ember to start a fire and I am ready to help my students find that fire within themselves. Its not always going to be easy and they will fall and stumble and when that does happen (and it will) I will be there to show them how to pick themselves up. Read More

Kevin W

Instruments: Piano Voice Synthesizer Keyboard

It is always important to set goals in a given time, regardless of age. Typically this means a performance which the student can work towards. For beginners it is important to spark the interest in the beauty of music, which brings a natural motivation a student needs to work on his own. Basic sheet reading and developing rhythm is a must and will be focused on. It is also important to note, that these skills will be learnt by applying them to songs carefully chosen together with the student. Read More

John H

Instruments: Piano Voice

I am a Los Angeles native who's excited to pass on the legacy of music to curious minds! In 2020, I graduated with my Master's Degree from the Boston Conservatory in Music, and this education has left me with a deep understanding of many different aspects of music, including piano and vocal performance, composition, history and dramaturgy, and theory. I believe learning is about developing a fluency in music in general as well as understanding and implementing specific techniques. Read More

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Joyce L

Instruments: Voice

Does music run in your family? Tell us a little about your musical family members.
My dad played guitar "by ear" and actually was a student at Berklee College of Music after WWII. Other than that there was no real music in my family. Mom did like listening to "crooners" as well as Sarah Vaughan and Eydie Gorme (two great singers) so I learned a lot of tunes before I even realized I was doing that!

If you play more than one instrument, how did you decide to start playing the second? (Or 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc)!
Although voice is my main instrument, I found it helpful to have a piano so I could actually play melodies and accompaniments for the difficult songs I wanted to sing. I can play accompaniments at voice lessons which I teach, but I remember a Professor in Grad school who said: "When you teach a lesson, be sure to LISTEN to the singer, rather than concentrate on the accompaniment you are playing." Good advice. These days I try to use my pianistic skills at the beginning of lessons, then let lessons culminate by having students sing with high level professional accompaniments - so they'll be performance-ready.

What is your favorite style/genre of music to play and why?
Despite my traditional music education, I now prefer to perform in the jazz genre. Both undergraduate and graduate schools taught traditional European music. However, teaching at a great commercial music college taught me to study the masters in the Jazz field. *Jazz musicians need the "chops" of classical musicians PLUS the mind of composers, since they must compose on the spot. Quite a dichotomy. It's funny, before you study jazz, you might think that classical music is the most demanding....hmmm

If you weren't a musician what do you think you'd be doing instead?
I could have done most anything. I scored so high in mathematics on my PSAT, that I considered becoming a mathematician or scientist. Having a difficult childhood, I was determined to take the first full scholarship I was offered for college study. My family was so poor that I didn't realize I could have applied to Harvard or any other college and I simply applied to one, for which I received a full scholarship. I could have made much money in any other field, but I loved singing - so this was it!

What is your dream piece to perform and why?
This was Cinques Poemes de Baudelaire by Claude Debussy. I ultimately performed these pieces in Tanglewood as well as while a Professor at Berklee College. They are the epitomy of great poetry and great composition in a contemporary style I love. It was quite difficult to find pianists who had the ability to play this rapturous and extremely difficult music. Once in grad school, I asked a pianist if he'd ever played these songs. His response was "Only in my dreams." He went on to become a world famous conductor after a Professorship at Juilliard in NYC.

If you have a Music Degree, what is it in (Performance, Education, Musicology, Theory, Composition, etc) and why did you choose that degree?
I first chose Music Ed. to study in college. After playing violin, then clarinet each for a semester, I realized that I should develop myself so that I could concentrate on singing. Thus I became the first Performance Major at U. Mass, Lowell. In graduate school, I continued the Performance emphasis by singing songs by Composers in whom I was interested, sang solo with the Graduate concert Choir as well as being the "Pop Singer" soloist when we went on tour. Even did a year of singing in the Opera Department at N.E.C. Starred as Penny in the Three Penny Opera by Kurt Weill.

When did you decide to become a professional musician? Was it a gradual decision or was there a defining moment for you?
I guess it was gradual, with academics always being important, it was that 1st full scholarship offer that made the ultimate decision to start my path into music.

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