THE STUDIO
WE ARE FOCUSED ON PROVIDING THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF VOCAL TRAINING TO VOCAL PROFESSIONALS IN NYC, ACROSS THE UNITED STATES AND AROUND THE WORLD.
HOW WE THINK ABOUT SINGING
Studying singing is a continuous process that is equal parts psychological and physiological.
Our mission with every client is to equip you with the tools to both understand what vocal options you have and to execute them with consistency.
HOW WE TEACH
Every singer enters the studio with their own unique vocal journey. Your past training, vocal goals, learning needs, professional demands etc. impact how you psychologically and physiologically interpret singing. Therefore, each one-to-one lesson format is highly individualized. Our job is to create a collaborative learning environment that helps you move towards three foundational goals:
FLEXIBILITY:
To help each client coordinate a wide variety of sounds with consistency and efficiency.
ADAPTABILITY:
To equip each client with the tools and confidence to respond, adapt and explore a wide range of sounds in their preparation and in performance.
AUTONOMY:
For each client to feel that they can be their own best voice teacher
WHY WE TEACH THIS WAY...
THE ONE THING WE CAN ALWAS COUNT ON IS CHANGE.
Art is constantly changing and adapting and with it are the expectations for the voice. Building voices that are flexible and prioritizing adaptability offers singers the tools to ‘own’ their technique and continue to grow as an artist without the constant guidance of a teacher. Rather than focusing on finding ‘the’ way to sing, we prioritize an ‘open’ mindset with endless possibilities for artistry and growth.
MEET YOUR TEACHERS
JARED TRUDEAU
I came to voice teaching in a roundabout way. I should have known it was what I wanted to do because, even as a teenager, I was coaching friends through songs and analyzing the singing of everyone from Whitney Houston to Mandy Patinkin. I found myself on the pre-med track at Tufts University, but shadowing doctors made me realize my heart was not in medicine. After completing degrees in Music and Psychology, I completed an M.F.A. in Voice Pedagogy for Musical Theatre at Penn State University. It was there that my seemingly disparate interests coalesced into the flexible approach to teaching I utilize today.
My joy in the studio comes from helping singers condition their voice and body to respond to whatever expressive impulse they have. Over the last 15+ years of teaching, I’ve realized the path toward establishing reliable, compelling vocalism is different for each client.
Everyone who comes in is cross-trained in order to maintain optimum flexibility and expressivity. This all happens within a ‘Bel Canto/Can Belto’ framework, but I combine modalities differently depending on their needs. In the studio, we combine contemporary voice science with Lessac, Fitzmaurice, Feldenkrais, Skinner Releasing/OSF, yoga, Cicily Berry, Estill, functional anatomy, neuroscience, dance technique, and various acting methodologies to foster the best, most emotionally connected singing possible.
I’m lucky enough to collaborate with and learn from so many incredible voice teachers, voice scientists, and musical directors. These experiences all help whether I’m working with someone who’s in a Broadway show, a singer-songwriter/recording artists, a TV and film actor who happens to be a great singer, or a killer cross-over artist.
Team Lead, Voice Teacher, Song Coach
LERYN TURLINGTON
Leryn Turlington graduated from Florida State University for Musical Theatre and more recently earned a Master of Music in Voice Pedagogy from Shenandoah University. Since 2014, she’s called both Chicago and New York City “home” and has performed professionally in musicals, plays, commercials, concerts, and cabarets for over a decade. In addition to private voice, she’s a teaching artist for the Paramount School of the Arts and Endstation Theatre Company’s Youth Theatre Conservatory, and holds certificates for Levels I-III of the CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute, Level I of the LoVetri Institute for Somatic Voicework, and Mental Health First Aid. Represented by Stewart Talent, she’s a member of both the Actor’s Equity Association and the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
Voice Teacher, Song Coach
ROSA VANDYNE
Rose Van Dyne (she/her) is an actor, music director, and educator. As a member of the AAPI community, Rose constantly infuses her work with a drive toward diversity, equity, and inclusivity. In spring of 2022 Rose taught the inaugural Social Justice in Theatre course at University of California-Chico, which has now been implemented into the core curriculum of all theatre majors.
Select acting credits include 1776 (Broadway, ART) Cambodian Rock Band, All’s Well That Ends Well (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Interstate World Premiere (Mixed Blood Theatre), Spring Awakening (Argyle Theatre).
Music credits include: Broadway Waitress (Re-opening) Music Fellow, BE LIKE BONE (Musical Theatre Factory) Music Supervisor, Dragon Baby (American Repertory Theater), Off-Broadway: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Out of the Box Theatrics), American Theatre Wing Songwriters Competition, TL;DR: Thelma Louise; Dyke Remix (NAMT). Second Line (Pace University New Musicals, OSF), Baked! The Musical (Chicago Underscore Theatre Company), Sick Moves (Temple University New Musicals). @rose_van_dyne, www.rosevandyne.com
PAUL JORDAN JANSEN
Currently in the Broadway Revival of Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Jordan has been performing on stages across the world for over a decade. This includes productions ranging from musical theatre classics, to new works, to world premieres at some of the countries most well renowned Regional Theaters. Favorite credits include: Paramount Theatre’s Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, and Sweeney Todd. Sting’s The Last Ship, the World Premiere of The Prince of Egypt at the Tony Award Winning Theatre TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, and the US Premiere of The Count of Monte Cristo at Pioneer Theatre Company.
Song Coach
Aside from his career performing, Jordan has spent equal time becoming an educator. When he was 19, Jordan developed a program in North East, Ohio that focused on preparing students for their collegiate theatre auditions. Since then, he has worked at various different universities on Song Analysis while continuing to prepare students for their journey to the collegiate and professional world of theatre. Jordan believes in helping young artists feel a sense of belonging so that they may be confident in embracing their true ability to become a cultivator of change in this industry.
JIM HOGAN
Jim is currently making his Broadway debut in Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire’s highly acclaimed new musical Kimberly Akimbo, based on the award winning play of the same name. National Touring credits include Waitress, The Phantom of the Opera and Spring Awakening. Regional credits include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Voice of Quasimodo), Memphis (Huey), and The Circus in Winter (Gordon). When Jim's not performing on Broadway or with Symphony Orchestras across the US, he's a member of internet-sensation vocal group, T.3 (@t.3official)! They made their mark on social media platforms like Tiktok and Instagram with inventive arrangements of Disney, Broadway and Pop songs leading them to become finalists on NBC’s America’s Got Talent. They signed a deal with SNC Records, opened for Jay Leno’s comedy tour, and their debut album will drop later this year! Training: Penn State University. Follow Jim: @jimhogan220!
Song Coach
ALEJANDRO SENIOR
Team Lead, Song Coach
Alejandro is a pianist and music director from the Dominican Republic. Alejandro prides himself in his skills as a pianist, singer, music director, arranger, and leader. He attended the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music for Piano and Voice. After finishing his Bachelor of Music in Music Education, Alejandro was accepted into the Summer Music Apprentice program at Transcendence Theatre Company. Located in Sonoma, California, Transcendence produces a unique seasonal programming of live outdoor Broadway-style concerts, the award-winning Broadway Under the Stars.
Alejandro was able to accompany rehearsals, perform in 11-piece bands, and arrange and orchestrate so many pieces for these curated concerts. These concerts featured incredible Broadway Performers including Vasthy Mompoint (Ghost, Spongebob), Leslie McDonnel (American Idiot, Hairspray), Tony Gonzalez (Mamma Mia!), Shaleah Adkisson (Rent, Hair), Beth Kirkpatrick (Les Misérables), Felicia Finley (Smokey Joes), and so many others! In addition, Alejandro moved on to work with incredible directors, choreographers, and music directors like Luis Salgado (In The Height, OYF), Sue Draus (Beautiful), Matt Smart (Hamilton). After spending four and a half months in Sonoma County, Alejandro made the move to New York City. Alejandro has worked on 13 different shows (6 seasons) at Transcendence and has held many different leadership positions.
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Alejandro has worked for companies in NYC like Bridge Arts Ensemble, Broadway Workshop, The Laurie Beechman, Applause, AfterWork Theatre, Joseph Harrell Voice Studio, Broadway Artists Alliance, and has performed at many different venues throughout the city. Alejandro now coaches and freelancers in the city, as well as holds teaching positions at NYU and Marymount Manhattan. Currently, Alejandro is working with the company of SOME LIKE IT HOT on Broadway as part of Team Music!
JARED REINFELDT
Jared studied Psychology, Philosophy, and Theatre at Boston College and went on to train with Commonwealth Shakespeare and at Circle in the Square.
He’s appeared in plays and musicals off-Broadway and across the country. Favorite stage credits include The Inheritance, The Legend of Georgia McBride, Spamalot!, Frankenstein, Fiddler on the Roof, Measure for Measure, and Cabaret. Jared regularly works with students in Columbia’s MFA Directing program.
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Onscreen, you can catch him in The Flight Attendant, Gossip Girl, and American Horror Story. Upcoming projects see him collaborating with Tom Hollander, Joe Mantello, Gus Van Sant, and Steven Soderbergh.
Acting / Monologue Coach
SAM LITTLEFORD
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Dance Coach
SHANNON MULLEN
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Dance Coach
Acting/Monologue Coach, College Audition Advising
CAROLYN BERLINER
Carolyn graduated from Tufts University summa cum laude where she studied Theatre, English, and Music. Additionally, she trained at NYU/CAP21 and Manhattan School of Music before completing the 2-year training program at the William Esper Studio.
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She has appeared in musicals and plays all around the country. She appeared in Elephant Man at the Williamstown Theatre Festival alongside Bradley Cooper and Patricia Clarkson. Carolyn was also in the premiers of Becoming Sylvia (NYTF), Trojan Women (Edinburgh Fringe), Something Wicked this Way Comes (Nu Musicals), and 330 Pegasus by award-winning playwright Melis Aker.
As a coach, Carolyn’s students have been accepted into many BFA and MFA programs. Additionally, Carolyn works as a producer for non-profit benefit concerts and workshops, the most recent being Broadway in the Berkshires and a weekend immersion program for the Eastern Connecticut Performing Arts Association. Carolyn is committed to helping empower students to be their most authentic, expressive selves in their artistry and is excited to help guide them, and their parents, smoothly through the college audition process.
JOEY HARELL
I completed my Ph. D in Music Education at Penn State where my focus was Musical Theater Voice Pedagogy. My journey to teaching, like many others, started with singing and evolved into a fascination with the voice and a passion for education. However, the critical moment that sent me down a path of discovery with teaching was facing challenges in my own voice.
I completed an undergraduate degree in vocal performance and ended up leaving school in worse shape than when I entered. After canceling a handful of upcoming performances, I was desperate to understand what happened to my voice and how I could get it back. This experience sent me on a journey to discover how our voice ‘works’ and how it can be ‘habilitated.’
There were two experiences that impacted my understanding of teaching throughout my study. First, was the realization there are physical properties of the voice that are agreed upon. This realization took place during my time at Boston Conservatory where I was able to study the anatomy, physiology and physics that make up the human voice. .
The second experience was understanding there are acoustic or ‘sound’ qualities of the voice that are agreed upon. This realization was guided by my tremendous mentors at Penn State University who so clearly articulated the qualities of sound associated with musical theater singing.
An understanding of the structure of the instrument and the sounds of musical theater singing acted as pillars upon which my understanding of teaching could rest. From there I needed to gain experience in the highly individualized process of guiding the education of singers.
Years later, I still rely on these ideas but my most potent learning experiences come from the clients and teachers I interact with on a daily basis. Each teaching day is an experience of growth and learning and I am indebted to the brilliant colleagues and clients I am fortunate enough to interact with on a regular basis.
HAYLEY TRAVERS
Joey's education and expansive up-to-date knowledge about the voice is unmatched by any of the other teachers I've studied with in the city. The way he is able to communicate and translate his knowledge into actionable and productive vocal exercises and adjustments has significantly improved my voice and my confidence in my ability to produce consistent sounds. His flexibility in approach and lack of stuffiness creates a warm, inviting and safe class environment. In addition to studying privately with Joey, I've taken his group class which is where I see just how flexible, adaptive and ultimately productive his teaching style is. He's really process oriented and I never feel the need to "perform" for him or to feign understanding which makes me feel as if our time together is maximized. I'd suggest anyone trying to get back in vocal "shape" or looking to expand and strengthen their voice to study with Joey!