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

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  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
   
   
  Amanda Starr Bean

Amanda Starr Bean completed her undergraduate work at Northwestern
University, where she graduated with honors in degrees of Vocal Performance and Italian. Amanda then went on to complete her master's work in vocal performance at Indiana University. Amanda has been teaching voice and piano for the past 5 years to students of all ages and levels of experience. Amanda has performed many roles in the operatic repertoire and her broadway credits include Polly Peachum in The Three Pennyopera, Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music, and Moonbeam McSwine in L'il Abner. Amanda enjoys teaching students of all ages, levels and styles.
   
  Aubrie Hamrick

Aubrie Hamrick holds a Bachelor of Music in Classical Vocal Performance from the University of Denver, where she graduated with honors. Aubrie has a long musical theater background which began at age 7 playing Toto in the Wizard of Oz. She has since graced stages from Vienna, Austria to London, New York, and Denver. She developed a passion for singing at Cherry Creek High School when she sang with the Union St Jazz Choir and toured England and Wales with the Meistersingers. Aubrie loves performing and teaching many styles of music, from classical and jazz to pop and country. She teaches voice and beginning piano to students of all ages, and enjoys the process of shining a light on the innate ability we all have to become passionate about music.

 

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