VOICE & SINGING
Voice lessons include warming up, ear training, presentation, and repertoire. They also include vocal techniques of breath control, pitch, range and instruction on protecting the vocal chords. Students may study classical and/or popular vocal music.
Christine Padua
Christine is a professional vocal coach with an exceptional reputation. She has a decade’s worth of experience teaching. During this time she has taught hundreds of students and given thousands of lessons, (including teaching the full spectrum of learning needs). She is considered an expert in her field for vocal technique and maintains a very active studio.
Christine's highly effective approach to voice has allowed her to continue to help beginning to professional level students of all styles advance their technique with incredible results.
Christine is a master of vocal technique and vocal intonation, which has given her the capacity to work fluently in all legitimate genres of singing, including the full range of popular (jazz, musical theatre, pop ballads, hymnal, etc.) and classic styles. She is also comfortable working with large voices or more technically demanding voices as a dramatic soprano herself. She welcomes all backgrounds, interest and experience levels and works appropriately with each student’s individual needs and goals.
She focuses on properly diagnosing and addressing vocal issues as well as integrating the body to fully support the voice, while respecting and enhancing the natural voice and abilities of the individual. She also focuses on developing artistry and performance practices that are incorporated from a technical standpoint.
As a vocal recording artist in the adult contemporary popular style, Christine has had her music released on the radio in Europe with an independent label. Several of her singles made the billboard indicators top 50 in 2014-2016.
Christine received her classical vocal performance degree from George Mason University in 2009. She has continued her classical vocal studies with a focus on Italian bel canto technique vigorously for years with Mrs. Fabian Bravo, a principle singer at the Met. Mrs. Bravo’s main teacher was the great and beloved tenor, Luciano Pavarotti. She has passed along his traditions and vocal practices to her own students.
Christine's highly effective approach to voice has allowed her to continue to help beginning to professional level students of all styles advance their technique with incredible results.
Christine is a master of vocal technique and vocal intonation, which has given her the capacity to work fluently in all legitimate genres of singing, including the full range of popular (jazz, musical theatre, pop ballads, hymnal, etc.) and classic styles. She is also comfortable working with large voices or more technically demanding voices as a dramatic soprano herself. She welcomes all backgrounds, interest and experience levels and works appropriately with each student’s individual needs and goals.
She focuses on properly diagnosing and addressing vocal issues as well as integrating the body to fully support the voice, while respecting and enhancing the natural voice and abilities of the individual. She also focuses on developing artistry and performance practices that are incorporated from a technical standpoint.
As a vocal recording artist in the adult contemporary popular style, Christine has had her music released on the radio in Europe with an independent label. Several of her singles made the billboard indicators top 50 in 2014-2016.
Christine received her classical vocal performance degree from George Mason University in 2009. She has continued her classical vocal studies with a focus on Italian bel canto technique vigorously for years with Mrs. Fabian Bravo, a principle singer at the Met. Mrs. Bravo’s main teacher was the great and beloved tenor, Luciano Pavarotti. She has passed along his traditions and vocal practices to her own students.
Lindsey Grebeldinger-Stewart
Originally from Mount Hope, New York, Mezzo-Soprano Lindsey Grebeldinger is a versatile singer and teacher with a love of many genres ranging from Musical theatre to opera, jazz and pop. She moved to the greater Washington, D.C. area in late 2014 for the position as an Alto Soloist in the United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own” Army Voices.Capable of performing in an array of classical and conte...mporary styles, Lindsey was given the rare opportunity of singing back-up vocals for international pop star, Josh Groban, during his world tour in 2013.
During her studies towards a Bachelor or Music Degree at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School of Music, she began to explore her classical vocal palette through a diverse set of roles from operas such as Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (‘Olga’), Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel (‘Witch’), to Ravel’s L’enfant et Les Sortilèges (‘Maman’ and ‘The China Cup’). She continued her studies at the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, where she earned a master’s degree in music in 2013. Her most notable role with CCM Opera was her portrayal of ‘Mrs. Jones’ in Kurt Weill’s American opera Street Scene and was described as “especially charismatic” by The Cincinnati Enquirer. During that time, she also worked with the Cincinnati Opera and in 2013 appeared in their cabaret concert series of crossover repertoire which included scenes from a variety of vocal works, including Mozart’s opera, Idomeneo, and songs from musicals such as Hairspray, Phantom of the Opera, and Songs for a New World. In 2012, while studying under the tutelage of Nico and Carol Castel at the select Delaware Valley Opera Professional Artist Development Program, she performed the roles of ‘Emelia’ in Verdi’s Otello, ‘Lois Lane’ in Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate, and ‘Meg Page’ in Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor.
She is a firm believer in teaching healthful singing techniques and incorporating them into all styles of music.
During her studies towards a Bachelor or Music Degree at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School of Music, she began to explore her classical vocal palette through a diverse set of roles from operas such as Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (‘Olga’), Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel (‘Witch’), to Ravel’s L’enfant et Les Sortilèges (‘Maman’ and ‘The China Cup’). She continued her studies at the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, where she earned a master’s degree in music in 2013. Her most notable role with CCM Opera was her portrayal of ‘Mrs. Jones’ in Kurt Weill’s American opera Street Scene and was described as “especially charismatic” by The Cincinnati Enquirer. During that time, she also worked with the Cincinnati Opera and in 2013 appeared in their cabaret concert series of crossover repertoire which included scenes from a variety of vocal works, including Mozart’s opera, Idomeneo, and songs from musicals such as Hairspray, Phantom of the Opera, and Songs for a New World. In 2012, while studying under the tutelage of Nico and Carol Castel at the select Delaware Valley Opera Professional Artist Development Program, she performed the roles of ‘Emelia’ in Verdi’s Otello, ‘Lois Lane’ in Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate, and ‘Meg Page’ in Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor.
She is a firm believer in teaching healthful singing techniques and incorporating them into all styles of music.
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