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Christiaan S.

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Teaches online

Teaches all skill levels

Age: 5+

Speaks Italian, German, French, Czech, Russian, Yiddish, German Latin, Italian Latin

Teaching since 2005

Certificate of Opera Performance

About Christiaan S.

5.0

(29)

Christiaan's students have sung at Madison Square Garden and Columbia University, and secured admittance to Master's degrees at NYU and London's Royal Central School. Christiaan's teaching style blends the joy and play of music with discipline through exercises, physiology, Alexander Technique, text analysis, and acting in order to achieve your greatest musical dreams. Christiaan played Gaston in the Broadway tour of Beauty and the Beast. He has three opera degrees and has worked with opera legends Marilyn Horne and Jake Heggie. He works with Lady Gaga's teacher, he arranged his own recital of pop songs at Carnegie Hall, he has written and recorded in Nashville and the U.K, and his latest project, a big band album titled, "Come Fly With Us," is available on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify.

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Bentley Cir

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Teaching Hours

Monday

4:30 PM-6 PM

Tuesday

4:30 PM-6 PM

Saturday

6 AM-8:30 AM

Sunday

6 AM-10 AM

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Pricing

30 minutes

$125

45 minutes

$164

60 minutes

$200

90 minutes

$325

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29 Reviews

Derek

Online

Christiaan is a great teacher! Very thorough, patient, intelligent. He has a unique background in multiple styles/genres. I'm looking forward to more lessons with him!

Posted Mar 16, 2021

George

Online

WOW! Seriously, he's that good. Before I started my lessons with Christiaan I would blow my voice out during extended singing sessions and knew I needed to find a vocal coach with the expertise to help me to prevent permanent damage. He quickly identified my strengths and weaknesses and gave me many tools and techniques I never even thought I'd be capable of. Christiaan has an amazing teaching style and always brings positive energy to each lesson. He knows how to offer constructive criticism in a gentle way that makes you excited to want to do better. I'm much more motivated and confident as a singer-songwriter as a result of these lessons and I can't thank him enough for bringing that element to my life.

Posted Jul 2, 2020

Jerry

Teacher's studio

I took classes with Christiaan for about a year and a half. He is a really experienced singer, and his lessons were amazing! We worked together for a grad school audition for vocal performance. I would not have got the offer without Christiaan. He was super helpful, patient, and really helped me become a better singer/performer! Definitely recommend his lessons!

Posted Feb 19, 2020

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Experience

Gaston

Aug, 2015 - Jul, 2016

Beauty and the Beast National Tour

Performed all 326 of 326 shows as Gaston.

Education

BM - Voice Performance

Aug, 2004 - May, 2008

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Certificate of Opera Performance

Aug, 2010 - May, 2012

Boston University Opera Institute

MM - Voice

Aug, 2008 - Jun, 2010

Indiana University-Bloomington Jacobs School of Music

Awards

Nora Sands Award

Mar, 2009

Orpheus Vocal Competition

Phyllis Curtain Award

Aug, 2011

Boston University Opera Institute

Affiliations

American Guild of Musical Artists

Jan, 2012

An American labor union that represents 8,000 current and retired opera singers, ballet and other dancers, opera directors, backstage production personnel at opera and dance companies, and figure skaters.

Actors' Equity Association

Jan, 2017

Actors' Equity Association, founded in 1913, is the labor union that represents more than 49,000 Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society.