I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.
Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.
No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.
All of my experiences as a singer will be of good use long into the future, when I get old enough to finally train others.
I've been studying voice for quite a while, especially opera, for at least seven or eight years.
Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I gave a song recital.
I've studied classical singing, but not to a great extent.
I've studied voice from a few different people for years.
The Italians are not indulgent, as Americans are. They don't have the patience to teach young singers how to move. They think you should learn in school.
It was at Juilliard that I realized that being a singer encompasses so many things that I am interested in. Literature, languages, physics, history, art. You really get to explore so many things.
