Find Your Voice
My voice students learn to sing with a solid technique that frees the voice to express and interpret music with beauty and simplicity and to perform with confidence in the most natural way possible.
Acclaimed lyric soprano,
voice teacher
and
choral director.
Pamela Alexander
About Me
I received my Masters of Music from New England Conservatory of Music and later studied on the Petri Scholarship at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. My career as a professional singer and voice teacher spans decades: a recitalist, soloist at many music festivals including Chamber Music Northwest, the Oregon Coast Music Festival, the Mendocino music festival and the Marin Mozart Festival and with various organizations such as the Joffrey Ballet, San Francisco Baroque Choral Guild and the Pacific Mozart Ensemble in the Faure Requiem in Davies Hall, S.F.
I currently teach at San Francisco Conservatory and in my voice studio in my home in the East Bay.
Performers
Many of the students who come to me to study are professional singers and want help with repertoire, interpretations, and to improve their technique or just to continue to grow vocally and musically. I have studied with many different teachers in my career and finally found one teacher, Lilian Loran, with whom I studied the last 20 years of my professional career as a singer. I never stopped learning new ideas from Lilian and I hope I can do the same for other singers. When one is continually performing, sometimes we need advice and encouragement and new ideas on how to tackle a vocal problem or a certain special repertoire.
Mature Voices
Many singers begin to sing later in life, or have always sung but now run into vocal problems. Some people would like to be able to use their voice to sing in choirs, musicals; some just want to feel confident to sing around others. Anyone can sing given the right kind of voice training and advice. Sometimes it just takes confidence and that confidence comes when we can trust our vocal technique not to let us down. Often as we get older we run into vocal problems and haven't a clue how to deal with them.
Tean Age Voices
At a certain point, that soft, lovely child's voice will begin to gain depth and strength; this is a time the voice training can begin in earnest. Now is the time to establish good breathing habits and learn techniques to focus the voice through correct use of language. The goal is to release the voice and find the most beautiful sound of our own natural voice in this release. This is also the time that repertoire becomes very important. It is necessary to find the songs and arias that are on the level of development of the student at each stage.
Children Voices
The voice is an instrument and must be treated as such; care must be used to prevent children from damaging their voices.
Long rehearsals and singing loud in an incorrect way can create bad habits and damage their voices.
I work with children on using breath in the most natural way possible; I show them that it is hardly different from speaking.
We work together to bring their voice forward in the most natural way. We work on understanding phrasing and what we are trying to say in a song. Most of all singing should be fun!
Contact Me
(510) 388-7064
Pamela Alexander
15 Lenox Road
Kensington, CA 94707
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Lesson Costs
LESSON COSTS
Our first lesson will be a meeting to become acquainted and decide if we are a good fit.
Lessons on a regular basis are $60 for a sixty minute session.
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Pamela Alexander
15 Lenox Road
Kensington, CA 94707
(510) 388-7064
