My Teaching Method
Understanding your own voice is very important to me. Many people think vocalizing and warming up is just about covering as many vowels and consonants as possible, or singing as high or as low as possible. To me, it's all about involving your body — every single muscle is involved when you sing. You are standing, sometimes moving, and it's about engaging everything from as big as your leg muscles to as small as your facial muscles: your masseters, your tongue, your lip muscles — learning how it feels to sing those notes. Words and syllables, vowels and consonants, are there to help you project your voice and to help you understand the space inside your mouth and your nasal cavity — and everyone is different. I'm not teaching you. You are teaching your muscles to remember what healthy singing feels like, and a warm-up vocalise is your tool.
My Philosophy
At San Diego Children's Voice Academy, I arrange and adapt art songs composed before December 1929 in Italian, German, and French, and weave them together with my own original dialogue — staging them as one complete theatrical work, a true Gesamtkunstwerk. Music is the key that draws the message out from within, and bringing different languages together in a single production tells the world that we are all one.
Multilingual voice training at a young age is like teaching children sports. Every muscle in our body grows accustomed to routine — including the muscles of our mother tongue. When children learn to sing and speak in different languages early, it gifts them the flexibility to master both language and singing later in life. Their muscle memory will never treat a foreign language as something strange; it will feel familiar — making singing effortless and joyful.