Classical Voice with Andrea Z.

Welcome! One possible snapshot: With piano or guitar, I accompany my student in a song they choose and we create a rendition together, which often culminates in a video or "live studio" type of recording of it. Another possible snapshot: At the piano, I help develop a voice by vocalization, guiding them through an infinitely detailed work of awareness, technique and aural control. Yet another: A singer-songwriter student works with me on their composition. We create a printable, publishable score of their song, reviewing decisions and polishing gestures along the way. You can count on: • Vocal training (correcting the natural faults of the Voice, dissolving rigidity and confinement of the Voice) • All things COMPOSITION • Classical PIANO training • Content-heavy music literacy. Not just the mere "code" of notes and rhythm, but the patterns and qualities of music regarded as movement, gestures and character. • Integrative training for the singer including notions of dramaturgy, mimics, declamation, and most enthusiastically, FOREIGN LANGUAGES. • Guidance to a well-trained attentive HEARING that enables the rise of knowledge and control in music-making regardless of genre. The studio is a broad welcoming space located on the first floor of an old Victorian mansion in the Denver Uptown neighborhood. In Broomfield, I receive students at my living room piano. About me: I have been dedicated for the last 9 years to the historic study of the Operatic Voice. Before that I earned two diplomas in music composition and pedagogy. Composing songs and pieces of music, as well as studying guitar, piano and percussion later, has been a means to further a vital singing desire that burns in my heart since childhood.