In March of 2021, a wildly unexpected event occurred: I was asked to teach virtual voice lessons for AMDA NY, after a 10 year hiatus! Because of the pandemic, voice lessons were online only, and therefore, I could teach for the New York City based school from the comfort of my South Carolina living room. I was thrilled…But as of this week, my second tenure at AMDA 2.0 as I like to call it, has come to an end.

Here’s what I learned this time around:

I learned to teach every voice type, gender, vocal problem, temperament, and musical style.

I taught sopranos, mezzos, soprano belters, mezzo belters, sopranos how to belt and belters how to sing soprano; tenors, bari-tenors, baritones, basses, and baritones who wanted to be tenors; dancers who had never sung before and actors who had never sung before.