Denver Music Institute offers comprehensive voice instruction for vocalists of all ages. Visit the "Prices/Contact" page for prices and more info.

GIFT CERTIFICATES available. Visit the Prices/Contact page.

   
  Subjects frequently studied are :
 
  • Diaphramatic breathing techniques and exercises
  • Vocalises: individual warm up exercises
  • Speech level-singing technique
  • Healthy extension of "chest" voice range or "belting"
  • Tone quality
  • Utilization of breath
  • Harmonization theory and blending
  • Improvement of voice range, flexibility and power
  • Sight - singing
  • Music theory
  • Vocal hygiene: everyday and in performance preparation
  • Microphone technique and sound basics for singers
  • Ear training: intonation and intervals
    Vowel manipulation for different vocal styles
  • Stage fright: dealing with and overcoming it
  • Moving between registers: working through your "break" or passagio
  • Resonance
   
   
  Pilar Cragan
Pilar Cragan comes to the Denver area from New York City where she has spent the past couple of years teaching and performing. Pilar has performed with the Nashville Opera, Augusta Opera, Nevada Opera, Shreveport Opera and the Dicapo Opera company as a crossover artist in such shows as Side by Side Sondheim, The Mikado, Sweeney Todd, The Odd Couple, Camelot, Once Upon a Mattress, The Sound of Music, Into the Woods, Fiddler on the Roof, Carousel, The Threepenny Opera and the Man of La Mancha. Pilar studied vocal performance at the Manhattan School of Music. She enjoys teaching vocalists of all ages to sing better in pop, theatre and classical styles, either for solo, band, choir or karaoke performances!
   

 

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