Would you like to perform with more self assurance?

To find more ease and joy in your music making?

To have longevity in your career as a professional musician?

The Alexander Technique can help you get closer to those goals.

Throughout my studies as a classical singer, my teachers had interjected principles of the Technique in my voice lessons. Later on, I decided to take a deeper look into the AT and audited a group class at McNally Smith College of Music, where I was teaching voice at the time. The professor, Brian McCullough, who is the director of the Minnesota Center for Alexander Technique invited me to join his training course in Minneapolis, MN, where I completed three years totaling 1600 hours and earned my certification and membership (M.AmSAT) into the American Society for the Alexander Technique (amsatonline.org). Currently, I am assistant faculty at Minnesota Center for Alexander Technique.

As I began to study the Alexander Technique in depth, I started to notice more freedom in my breathing and singing. There was a lightness in my whole being that allowed me to enjoy what I was doing in a different way than I had ever experienced before. This feeling gave me more peace and confidence within myself. This same feeling permeated other areas of my everyday life and helped me mange stress better.

My teacher, Brian McCullough, trained with Alex and Joan Murray, who trained as teachers with Walter Carrington, one of F.M.Alexander’s first trainees. The Murrays worked closely with anthropologist Raymond Dart to develop the Dart Procedures, an ongoing exploration of human developmental movement that has influenced Alexander teaching throughout the world.

In addition to my teacher, Brian McCullough, I have been fortune to work with Lauren Hill, also on faculty at Minnesota Center for Alexander Technique, and study with Tully Hall. While I was in training, I attended workshops with Missy Vineyard, John Nicholls, Pedro de Alcantara, Karen DeWig and Wes Howard. In 2020, I completed an online webinar series for Musculoskeletal Anatomy at the Dimon Institute (dimoninstitute.org) and am attending the Breathing and the Voice lecture series, also through the Dimon Institute. Currently, I am taking part in a series of classes on spirals with Alice Olsher. At the moment, I serve as assistant faculty on the Alexander Technique training course at MinnCAT and at the University of Minnesota’s AT group class, made up of mostly students earning degrees in music performance. Additionally, I have co-presented series of classes on the Alexander Technique at University of Northwestern and Concordia University in Minnesota, as well as Opera Reading Project . Future workshops include University of Wisconsin, River Falls piano festival and Opera Reading Project.

Primarily, I work with musicians but enjoy working with anyone searching for more balance, less tension and reducing chronic pain in approaching day to day activities.

As a voice teacher, I approach the lessons through the lens of the Alexander Technique.

To inquire about private voice or Alexander Technique lessons and fees, please fill out the form on the contact page and I will answer your questions.

To learn more about the Alexander Technique, please visit alexandertechnique.com

Thank you and I hope to meet you at a future lesson.