The goal of the voice studio is to encourage creativity and confidence within individuals. Musicality is not a talent instilled from birth, but instead something cultivated through time and dedication through the craft. The voice studio cultivates an environment in which students feel comfortable to make bold musical choices, mistakes, and music they love through encouraging autonomy, promoting diverse selections of repertoire and cultivating lesson’s towards the individual student. 

Student Autonomy 

Promoting students to practice autonomy is important in all aspects of the voice studio. Within lessons, students lead the lesson to fulfill their vocal needs and goals at the time. This is supported and encouraged through strong communication between student and teacher, where the teacher can ask questions to gauge how the student is feeling; what thoughts they are having on how the lesson is going and how they would like the lesson to continue. Encouraging students to have freedom in the choices they make in their lessons and in their own time will allow the students to create deeper personal connections to the music, along with building confidence and allowing freedom in making bold choices in their work, which is encouraged.

Diverse Repertoire Choices

Students have the freedom to choose their own repertoire, varying in style and genre. Repertoire preparation is a vital aspect to learning music, and should be done by each student in order to make larger connections to the music, either personally or by understanding the worldly context of the piece. Students are encouraged to explore repertoire by composers by diverse backgrounds, and music by composers who reflect identities similar to their own. Exploring this repertoire can cultivate a deeper connection to the music, and uplifts marginalized voices, which are often overlooked in musical communities. Along with working on standard classical repertoire, it is important to allow students the freedom to expand their style of singing by exploring other genres such as; musical theater, jazz or commercial style singing if they so choose, as exploring genres of singing will ultimately make a stronger singer and performer. Exploring other genres can also help prevent burnout, and continue to bring inspiration into the other genres the student is working on. Encouraging students to continue to fill their artistic inspiration is important in creating performers who are good at what they do, and love to do it.

Cultivation of individual growth

The voice studio aims for individual growth, and there is no directly right or wrong way to move forward, and therefore cannot be graded by a teacher, but instead graded by self reflection of the student, who understands their personal growth best. The goal in lessons is to provide students with the tools they need for healthy voice exploration and development in the practice room. This includes vocal exercises, body alignment movements and breathing exercises, but also habits of positive self talk, body scanning and journaling or logging practice sessions to maintain a healthy mindset towards one’s voice. These practices look different for every student, and it is the goal of the teacher to get to know students on an individual basis in order to create the most effective and fun teaching environment for the student.