Private Vocal Conditioning
for Professional, Touring and Skilled Amateur Singers
of
Classical, Opera, Jazz and Blues, Musical Theater and Contemporary Musical Theater, Americana, Folk and World Music
Look inside my singing craft kit and tool box!
Functional vocal pedagogy for vital singing in classical and Americana styles
Exceptional functional listening skills
Laughter and fun
Respect for the Phrasing, Rhythmic, Emotional & Technical Needs of Many Kinds of Music
Trained Somatic Empathy and Somatic Education of the Body
Rhythm and Movement
Principles of Sports’ Training and Psychology
Voice Therapy Tools
Emotional, Musical and Artistic Intelligence
Our work together is highly informed by principles of sensorimotor learning and the neuroplasticity of the brain. You don’t have to understand these principles if you don’t want to, because my job is to make the benefits practical, interesting and useful for YOU!
Somatic Education…
…helps unkink the body habits that interfere with free expression and movement. It helps to reunite the relationship among the body, mind and spirit. Some names of familiar modes of “somatic education” that I have studied and practice myself are yoga, Alexander Technique, myo-fascial release via the work of Suzan Postal of The Body Sings, and movement therapies including tribal belly dance and dance from organic animal movements.
“Cate is a remarkably versatile musician and gifted teacher of singing. She magically identifies subtle ways my body and inner attitudes affect my communication as a professional singing actress. She then gently and systematically worked to relieve those blocks & strengthen my whole voice.”
“Thanks for helping us do what we do! Grateful for people like you that teach musicians how to sing and play in ways that promote health and healing.”
“Cate Frazier-Neely has been one of our two vocal clinicians for almost ten years. We know that our ensemble can only be as good as its individual members working together. Somehow she tends our individual vocal needs while working things into the choral unit we wish to be.”