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Boulder’s Best Singing & VOICE Lessons

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Where does your singing journey start?

Enroll your Kids

If you are a parent looking to find singing lessons to accompany your child’s participation in school programs, such as choir, chorales, and/or musical productions, our voice staff have performed in, directed, produced, and vocal coached all the above.

 

Lessons for Adults

Adult voice lessons are designed according to your musical taste and aspirations. Your voice teacher will create lesson plans that work for your weekly schedule. Our adult students are also encouraged to perform in our recitals and join adult rock bands. Now’s the time to check taking voice lessons off your bucket list.

 

We offer Voice Lessons in Boulder and Online.

So what are you waiting for?

 

VOICE Lessons Built For YOU

  • Learn at your own pace
  • Lessons built on your musical tastes
  • Online Voice lessons available
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Show off your skills

 

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Perform at our end of the semester shows.

Invite your friends and family.

bLow everyone away!

We cover all production costs.
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Become a Rockstar

Want even more spotlight?

Become a rock vocalist in your own band!

Add weekly band practice to your voice lessons and perform live at our seasonal rock concerts. Start with a free trial session.

Our Teachers

 

Olivia “Liv” Roumel


My Favorite Quote

“You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.” Oscar Peterson

 


How I Started Playing Music

My passion for singing and writing was alive as early as I remember - I still have notebooks filled to the brim with lyrics that I would sing for family and friends. I started singing in a choir around the age of nine, and started voice lessons around that time to correct a vocal health issue. The intense experience of re-training myself how to speak and sing got me intimately connected to my voice, thus beginning my journey as a vocalist. My curiosity and studies in jazz began when I was twelve, and I picked up the electric guitar around this time as well. I took full advantage of my high school’s chorale music program and threw myself into the musical theatre program in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I wrote music and poetry as a teenager, and practically worshipped Fiona Apple. I got to sing in my high school’s jazz band for two years, and attended summer vocal jazz camps at both Western Michigan University and the Jacob’s School of Music at Indiana University. I have enjoyed jamming, writing and performing with various stellar musicians through the years in the Ann Arbor area, Boston, and here around Boulder.

 


My Favorites In These Five Styles:

Neo Soul: Erykah Badu

Soul: Marvin Gaye

Funk: Sly and the Family Stone

Pop: Joni Mitchell

Jazz: Sarah Vaughan

 


My Education, Accolades, And Experience

I attended Berklee College of Music in Boston for vocal jazz and completed my bachelor’s degree in music and psychology at Naropa University in Boulder in 2019. I have been playing solo gigs for the last decade, and have had the chance to be on stage with a variety of bands as a singer and guitarist.

I studied vocal jazz with acclaimed jazz singer and educator Sunny Wilkinson, who helped expand my repertoire and improvisational chops as a jazz singer. At Berklee, I sang in the Pletenitsa Balkan Choir, which specialised in folk music from the Balkans and Middle East. I continued to focus on songwriting skills at Berklee and even got to study with Livingston Taylor in his stage performance class. 

I transitioned to Naropa, where I spent a lot of time writing and improvising in experimental jazz styles. I learned studio techniques and production in my time there, and got to record solo as well as with my band at the time. I have a home studio and currently record my own music, as well as doing session work.

I began my teaching career while at Naropa, where I privately taught piano, guitar, and voice. I’m especially inspired to teach anything in the world of jazz and soul, but I love rock, folk and pop styles as well. I feel my array of experience in diverse musical situations helps inform personalised lesson plans for each student.

 


My Approach To Teaching

I see my role as a teacher is to pivot to each student’s unique needs and musical goals, while keeping health and the love of music as top priorities.  I focus heavily on performance and being confident on stage, as well as having lots of real life music skills, like chart writing, that allow students to communicate effectively with musicians. I offer myself as a resource to help people discover new artists and love sharing my knowledge of music. Playing diverse and exciting songs are a core part of my lessons, and I use these tunes as vehicles to learn about scales, techniques and exercises.

When it comes to singing, I dealt with a vocal health struggle at a very young age and was able to naturally heal it, so this is something I have a keen awareness of with voice students. I love helping people find the fullest potential of their voice, and use a wide array of tools and visualisations to help with that.

 


One Of My Practice Techniques

One of my practice techniques is to learn the chord scales that make up each chord of a song. It’s a great way to train my ears to hear what’s coming, and understand the soloing potential of the whole tune.

 



Melissa Lubecke


My Favorite Quote

“Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.”
― Kamand Kojouri

 


How I Started Playing Music

Both my parents were music majors! They met in opera acting class. It’s been a family profession ever since.

 


My Favorites In These Five Styles:

Rock – Coheed and Cambria, Chicago, System of a Down, Staind

Pop – Mariah Carey, Demi Lovato, Christina Aguilera, ABBA

Musicals – Phantom of the Opera, Hairspray, Waitress, Hamilton, Shrek the Musical, The King and I, Rent, In the Heights, Jekyll and Hyde

Jazz – Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington

Classical – Richard Strauss, Claude Debussy, Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart, Libby Larson

 


My Education, Accolades, And Experience

I received my Bachelor of Music from Baylor University in 2013, after spending four and a half years studying and working as a church musician. While there I participated in the Baylor Opera program, debuting roles such as Mdm. Silberklang in Mozart’s Der Impresario, and 2nd Lady in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneus.

After taking three years to hone my craft, I attended the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria on scholarship. There I studied the German language in an accelerated class and used it in my day-to-day interactions. I was blessed to perform on several concerts, including sacred music and music in Spanish.

Shortly after my Austrian training, I returned home to start my Master of Music at the University of Texas-San Antonio. While there, I studied vocal pedagogy with the esteemed pedagogue, John Nix, learning how to teach singing to students of all ages and ability levels. I was awarded my degree in Spring of 2018.

After graduating, I committed myself to applying all the teaching techniques I learned in my private studio in Houston. My students performed in musicals in the Houston area and competed in the Texas All-State competition.

 


My Approach To Teaching

My approach to teaching is informed by all the teachers who shaped me growing up. I have a deep love of language and seek to communicate to the audience in all things. I do not believe in “good” or “bad” sounds. Efficiency is the name of the game, and I hope to develop strong ears in my students so that they can make the most efficient choices possible while singing. Since singing is so vulnerable, I make sure to keep each lesson grounded in flexibility and empathy.

 


One Of My Practice Techniques

Chunking! Separate your hour (or three!) of practice into small segments. 15-30 minutes at a time. The human brain concentrates best in smaller chunks of time. I like to start with a warm-up and then 15 minutes of focusing on problem spots in my music. Then it’s time for a break! Follow this up with another 15-30 minutes of practice where you focus on singing all the way through your songs without stopping, and without being judgmental of yourself.

 



Julia Wanrow


My Favorite Quote

“The light shines in the darkness and the darkness cannot overcome it. “ John 1.5.


How I Started Playing Music

I am a Boulder native and grew up in South Boulder attending Bear Creek Elementary. I began piano lessons in the 2nd grade and voice lessons in middle school and continued both through my high school years. I attended Fairview High School and participated in various choirs such as Madrigals and Show Choir. I performed Marc Cohn’s “Walking in Memphis” at the annual Fairview talent show my senior year. I was also one of 3 students to be invited to sing in the Colorado All-State Choir. I spent hour upon hour as a teenager at my family piano playing through my beloved Tori Amos and Marc Cohn books. I was a competitive swimmer from a young age and swam for Fairview High School for 3 years. Later in life I swam the Alcatraz Invitational in California swimming from Alcatraz to the San Francisco Bay in 50-degree water temps with my younger brother Paul who also lives in Boulder. 


My Favorites In These Five Styles:

Christian Contemporary Music (CCM)- Lauren Daigle, Kari Jobe, Hillsong United, Brandon Lake, Elevation Music, Phil Wickham.

Pop- Marc Cohn, Adele, Bruno Mars, Tori Amos, Taylor Swift.

Rock- Beatles, Elton John, John Mayer, the Police, Fleetwood Mac.

Classical- Chopin, Debussy, Beethoven, Berlioz.

Country- Carrie Underwood, Morgan Wallen, Faith Hill, Alan Jackson.


My Education, Accolades, And Experience

I am a Colorado native and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Vocal Performance from University of Colorado Denver. Before graduating I studied for 2 years at the Conservatory of Music at the University of the Pacific with an emphasis in Music Therapy. After graduation I completed graduate education courses at Metropolitan State College in Denver. I opened my private piano and vocal studio in 2012 and have enjoyed teaching piano and voice to all ages ever since.

I also have an extensive background in church leadership and have led music vocally, from the piano, and with bands in a large 1,000-member church for over 15 years. I participated in and led music on a Medical Mission trip to Tegucigalpa, Honduras in 2016. I also volunteer to lead yearly youth trips each summer. Recently I began work on a weekly basis with a collective of church music leaders and musicians who travel and provide leadership for musical teams and congregations in need of musical directors around the greater metro area.


My Approach To Teaching

Many believe that to play an instrument or to sing you need to be gifted and talented in these areas. Natural talent is awesome, but a real desire to learn and a commitment to work toward a goal is much more valuable. I believe that anybody can sing or play an instrument beautifully with the correct training, motivation, and encouragement!

Playing and singing music has always grounded and connected me to something greater than myself. The gift of music has carried me through difficult times and brought great peace and joy to my life. I am passionate about sharing the gift of music to facilitate physical, emotional, and social growth in the lives of my students.  


One Of My Practice Techniques

I spent years of voice lessons beating my voice into submission and then wondering why I wasn’t getting the results that I so desired. After studying extensively under a vocal coach out of Nashville I began utilizing vocal exercises that revolutionized my approach to singing and later to teaching. Understanding where and how the sound is generated and resonates in the human body is key. Simple daily resonance exercises working with the 3 registers- head, chest, and pharyngeal (or middle voice) have changed the way I sing and practice. I love sharing these exercises and tools with my students and over time watching them grow in freedom, power, and confidence.


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