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Availability
I am available for lessons weekdays, Saturday, and most evenings during the summer months.
Rates
$50 per hour: $40 per 3/4 hour; and $30 per 1/2 hour.
Private Piano Teacher, Voice Coach (Classical, Folk, Jazz, Ballads) Foreign Language Diction Coach, Accompanist, Mezzo-Soprano Soloist, Choral Singer, Recitalist.
Educated at Portland State University studying with Mary Kogan, Keyboard Techniques, Pedagogy; Alyce Rogers, Voice; Nancy Metzger, harpsichord, and Richard Poppino, German, French, Italian Diction, Voice; and at Southern Oregon University, studying with Marie Landreth, Voice; Dr. John Miller, piano, and Dr. Margaret Evans, organ.
Excellent instruction in the International Phonetic Alphabet to facilitate singing in French, German, Italian, Russian, Latin, Spanish. Work with vowel shaping, release of unnecessary tensions in tongue, lips and jaw. Learn to sing a legato line in any language. Improve your sight-singing abilities, breath management, and preservation of the vocal apparatus to insure that you do not "lose" your voice.
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Private Voice Coaching
Portland, OR
Find your natural voice and experience the feeling of freedom and exhileration it gives you. Improve your vocal technique or learn how to sing "from scratch". Work on vowel formation, breath management, tonal production, maximizing the use of your resonating chambers, foreign language diction, learn to relax those of interfering muscles (tongue & vocalis muscles…
1 session available for $55.00 | Singing
Qualifications
Education
- BA Humanities/Performing Arts, Southern Oregon University.
- MST Music, 1998, Portland State University
Experience
- 25 years experience performing
- 15 years experience teaching
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Best yet.
I've had four different voice teachers in my years of studying voice and none can compare to Irene's...
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Excellent Voice Coach
Irene Weldon is an excellent voice coach and I enjoy my lessons immensely. She uses her own gorgeous...
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