Hello, readers. As of today, I am moving this blog to my new website: NYCvoiceguru.com . Please check out the new address for future posts. ...

My teacher Cornelius Reid used to warn budding teachers, "There are as many singing methods as there are singers." He meant, I b...

Hello again, readers.  Did you wonder where'd I'd been all these weeks? Well, I've been busy studying anatomy texts, taking ne...

One of my students recently recommended that I take a look at Daniel Coyle's book (Bantam Dell, 2009), The Talent Code: Greatness isn...

When a highway is being resurfaced, you have to find a temporary alternative route.  In a similar way, the new vocal technique you are worki...

(While I'm on vacation — from teaching and blogging — I hope you enjoy this piece from my website archives.) As a youngster, I was a ...

(While I'm on vacation — from teaching and blogging — I hope you enjoy this piece from my website archives.) Have you ever become so...

(While I'm on vacation — from teaching and blogging — I hope you enjoy this piece from my website archives.) Many people have the mis...

(While I'm on vacation — from teaching and blogging — I hope you enjoy this piece from my website archives.  It's from a few years a...

Happy August, Readers! In honor of this hot and lazy month, I am taking off from teaching starting this weekend until after Labor Day.  I...

I'm very pleased to announce that Classical Singer magazine has published an article I wrote in their August 2010 issue, which is now on...

Hello, dear readers.  I'm back from Fire Island, where, as planned, I did nothing much other than rest and take the dogs for romps on th...

We decided to take a later train and ferry to get to Fire Island this evening, so I find myself with a couple of extra hours to write a blog...

Wow—has it really been a month since my last posting?  It's ironic, but since I started blogging and otherwise increasing my web presenc...

It's a very human characteristic to want to finally figure something out: " Now I've got it!" Unfortunately, the moment...

In singing or any other activity, we get the best response out of our bodies when they are well coordinated. This means that all the muscles...

This past week, my student Jake asked me if I thought this quote represented the truth: "No matter how many specific ends you may gai...

I recently received an email from a young man named Alex wanting to know whether he should start voice lessons now, while his voice was stil...

My student Danielle had the opportunity a few days ago to take a lesson with her former voice teacher.  It seems to have been a real eye-ope...

Toni asked me recently to explain the concept of bocca ridente , Italian for "smiling mouth."  This is an old term, first used by ...