I too wish to ""sing the praises"" of Sheila Dugan. I have been studying with her for the past four months. In that short amount of time, Sheila has done more to fix the problems with my voice than any other teacher I've encountered. I am a classical singer and have studied opera and art song since college in 1996. Since finishing my undergraduate program, I notice that my singing was not as strong as it had been in school. I had difficulty with range issues and also breath management. I quickly lost confidence in myself as a classical singer. Since working with Sheila, I have gained back a lot of my confidence as a singer and feel that I am well on my way to full improvement. Using scientific descriptions of how the voice works, along with visual aids, Sheila is able to instruct her students to find the trouble spots and truly correct them. Some of my vocal problems were made known to me by other teachers. But Sheila is the first teacher who has had any success in helping me begin to rid these problems from my technique. In short, Sheila Dugan is a marvelous teacher and musician. I think that if there were a stone that HAD a voice, Sheila could teaching it to sing....beautifully!
Pros: one-on-one instruction, thorough music library, grand-piano accomp.
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