Beginner through College Level
Lessons
$65 – 1/2 hour, $120 / hour – Private home lesson
What Will be Taught in Lessons?
- How to Read Music/ Basic music theory
- Vocal Technique taught through Pedagogy and Hands-on Experience
- Audition Preparation
- How to prepare a role
- How to Connect to you Audience/ Embody your Character
How do Singing Lessons Help with Life Skills and College Application?
- Builds Confidence
- Increases Ease and Comfortability with Public Speaking
- Teaches Patience and Discipline
- Merit Based Scholarships in College
- Teaches Team Building
What I’ve done:
- Community and School Theater
- School and Church Choirs
- Competitions such as NATS, Elizabeth was invited to compete at this years National level of NATS
- Performed with various Symphonies and Opera Houses
- Tutored for music theory, music history, and sight reading in college at all levels
What my students have done:
- Excelled in competitions such as NATS, All-State, Solo and Ensemble, Various Group A cappella Competitions
- Earned High Marks for College Juries
- Been Awarded Lead Roles in School and Community Theater Productions
- Accepted into College Music Programs
- Perform the lead roles in University Opera Programs
Let’s Discuss Your Lesson Plan
Location
Lessons in Highland Park
Other locations by request
Phone
(850) 376-5821
Hours Available
Monday – Friday: 9 am – 9:00 pm
Saturday – Sunday: 1 pm – 9:00 pm
Educational benefits / facts :
- Research at McGill University in Montreal, Canada showed that grade-school kids who took music lessons scored higher on tests of general and spatial cognitive development, the abilities that form the basis for performance in math and engineering (http://nisom.com/index.php/
instruction/health-benefits). - Children who study music tend to have larger vocabularies and more advanced reading skills than their peers who do not participate in music lessons (Arete Music Academy. “Statistical benefits of music in education.” Arete Music Academy. Accessed July 17, 2014).
- Students in high-quality school music education programs score higher on standardized tests compared to students in schools with deficient music education programs, regardless of the socioeconomic level of community (Nature Neuroscience, April 2007).
- Children who study a musical instrument are more likely to excel in all of their studies, work better in teams, have enhanced critical thinking skills, stay in school, and pursue further education (Arte Music Academy. “Statistical benefits of music in education.” Statistical-Benefits-Of-Music-
In-Education. Accessed July 17, 2014). - The College Board identifies the arts as one of the six basic academic subject areas students should study in order to succeed in college (Academic Preparation for College: What Students Need to Know and Be Able to Do, 1983 [still in use], The College Board, New York).
- A study of almost one thousand Finnish pupils who took part in extended music classes, found they reported higher satisfaction at school in almost every area, even those not related to the music classes themselves (Eerola & Eerola, “Extended music education enhances the quality of school life,” Music Education Research, 2013).
- Learning a musical language could have cognitive benefits similar to those evident in bilingual children. Although this view has intuitive appeal because music and language are both auditory communication systems, the positive effects of bilingualism are evident for fluid intelligence (i.e., executive control) but not for crystallized intelligence (e.g., knowledge acquired through experience, such as vocabulary), whereas the effects of music lessons appear to extend to both domains (E. Glenn Schellenberg, “Music and Cognitive Abilities,” Current Directions in Psychological Science Journal, Vol. 14, No. 6, December 2005).
- Everyday listening skills are stronger in musically-trained children than in those without music training. Significantly, listening skills are closely tied to the ability to: perceive speech in a noisy background, pay attention, and keep sounds in memory (Strait, D.L. and N. Kraus, Biological impact of auditory expertise across the life span: musicians as a model of auditory learning. Hearing Research, 2013.)
- Musically trained children performed better in a memory test that is correlated with general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, visiospatial processing, mathematics, and IQ (Dr. Laurel Trainor, Prof. of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behavior at McMaster University, 2006).
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