Voice Teacher

Learn from a working singer who has more than 5 years of teaching experience.

What current and previous students have to say…

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The first step begins with you. Book a free trial lesson today!

I am happy to offer up to a 30 minute trial session for all potential clients. Please contact me directly via the contact page on the website to book.

My rate is $49 per hour.

 

Please contact me directly via the contact page on this website to ensure an effective booking.

Ethan’s Teaching Philosophy

Ethan takes a practical approach to teaching voice. He pulls from his own experience with opera, musical theater, jazz, choral music, sacred music and a cappella. Ethan teaches singing technique that can be applied to any style or genre, anchored in the beautiful singing of opera’s Golden Age . Work with the breath, language, and physical sensation will allow each student to let their own unique voice speak for itself, uninhibited. The best singing technique allows the singer to just "get out of the way,” prioritizing vocal freedom and an honest sound . This is the key to vocal ease, clarity, beauty and longevity.

In addition to work of a purely vocal nature, Ethan also pushes his students to develop their expression through story-telling. I offer the student work with the text, rhetorical inflection, verbal expression, and physical gesture. Quite often some simple dramatic work on its own will make an aria, song or show-tune easier to sing Ethan has studied the voice himself now for more than twelve years and is actively working in Germany as an opera singer.

Ethan holds a Masters of Music in Voice and Opera from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He also has a Bachelors of Music in Voice Performance from the University of Delaware, a nationally renowned music school for Music Education.

Ethan has more than nine years of teaching experience, including:

  • 2 Years at IU Jacobs School of Music as an Associate Instructor in Voice, teaching undergraduate and graduate secondary voice.

  • 6 years as a freelance teacher with students as young as 5 and as old as 72.

  • 1 year of teaching practicum while studying vocal pedagogy.