Helping Singers Navigate their Midlife Hormonal Changes and Beyond
Are you a singer or singing teacher navigating baffling changes to your voice, body and psyche from midlife hormonal transitions? I can help you adjust, rethink, refresh, and thrive.
Are you a singer diagnosed with a vocal fold injury or pathology, recovering from surgery or experiencing singing challenges after a professional course of treatment? I’m a vetted non-clinical singing voice specialist who can work with your medical team during, or after, your rehabilitative & adaptive measures.
Are you a private studio and/or or academic voice teacher wanting more joy and a deeper embodied understanding of your OWN singing? We can make the process of a new disciplined, wild joy fit into your busy life!
Working together, we will
Adapt for you:
Evidence-based Adult-Learning Strategies
Somatic Re-Education
Movement and Mindfulness
Explore:
the myo-fascial relationships of the seven diaphragms,
functional vocal pedagogy
voice therapies and rehabilitation
hooking into rhythmic impulse, the basis of All Singing
Work from my honed intuition and somatic perceptions to inform all evidence-based work.
Draw from many styles and genres of music to develop unencumbered expression authentic to you! This includes almost every form of classical singing, world music singing, musical theater, and Americana styles such as, folk, blues, country or jazz singing.
“I highly recommend Cate for all advanced singers and voice teachers, particularly those who are having difficulties with singing for any reason. She’s a visionary educator who is profoundly perceptive and grounded. AND she is well-informed and practical, working in a functional and therapeutic manner. Cate’s musical soul enables her to work authentically in many genres and infuses all of her holistic work. I’m relieved and grateful to have found a life-long mentor in her.”
“I came across Cate’s blog article “Saliva and Singing,” and began working with her to prepare for my Broadway debut in a new musical written by Chris Thiele of The Punch Brothers. I am a hip-hop, Latino, electronica pop singer/recording artist and needed be able to sustain a strenuous live musical stage show feature of a very high lyrical range. Sad to say that project was abandoned due to the pandemic, but my lessons with Cate showed me different parts of myself which I carry with me today.”
Cate Frazier-Neely
Voice Teacher, Singing Voice Rehabilitator, Researcher, Author, Somatic Educator & Visual Artist
I understand all Voice Work, and all the Arts, as life-long practices for individual and community healing.
Here are my experiences working with evidence-based functional singing and performance coaching for voice industry professionals, college voice professors, world-music touring singers, singers on Broadway, in opera and oratorio, jazz venues, Grammy award-winners, professional child actors, touring companies, adult and children choristers, committed adult amateur singers, teenagers and community music organizations.
Referrals for work as a singing voice rehabilitation specialist come from Johns Hopkins Speech-Language Pathologists, voice experts and self-referrals throughout the US, Canada, UK and Australia.
A 25 year+ background as a reviewed singer brought me much joy and many life-affirming & interesting opportunities.
I’m also the co-author of the Amazon best-seller “Singing Through Change: Women’s Voices in Midlife, Menopause and Beyond,” with Nancy Bos and JoAnne Bozeman, Studio Bos Media
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What singers say
“As a career jazz and R & B singer, I don’t trust my voice to just anyone. I worked with Cate during 3 years of peri-menopausal voice and life challenges. She helped me navigate the storm and come out the other side.”
“Cate is a highly qualified vocal expert & healer. Her background of high-level classical singing, long history of developing singers of all genres of music, and her own extensive recovery from physical and emotional trauma uniquely informs her work with professional singers, performers upping their skills, and those recovering from diagnosis of vocal fold injury. Her lifetime of investigation into our mind/body/heart knowledge has honed her wise sensibility and perception, lacking in the profession of teaching singing until recently. Her compassion for, and commitment to, the highest good of each of her students, and to the profession at large, is exemplary. ”
