Angela G  
Instruments: Voice
Styles: Classical, Musical Theater, Opera

I've begun teaching students 3 years ago with Boston City Singers as a teaching fellow. Having a good breathing technique and maintaining good posture is essential to teaching voice students. The breath is the foundation of the voice and if students breathe well and comfortably, they will sing with more ease and will have much more fun singing! I also make sure that each student is given a specific exercise or piece of music to work on each week in addition to songs, so that their warmups complement the songs they are working on.

For beginning voice students who are late elementary/early middle school, much of the learning will be on breathing and posture as well as being expressive as they sing in addition to basic music skills. Their warmups are likewise based on those points. Intermediate students who are in later middle school and high school will focus more on singing with a clear tone that is not breathy nor strained as well as more intermediate songs, including introduction to foreign language pieces, or musical theatre tunes. More advanced students in high school will be focused on producing a tone that is classical and coordinating with good breath as well as polishing good Italian language songs with an introduction into operatic arias (most will be from operettas, depending on the students capability).