WA vocal coach, also known as a voice coach, is a music teacher, usually a piano accompanist, who helps singers prepare for a performance, often also helping them to improve their singing technique and take care of and develop their voice, but is not the same as a singing teacher. Vocal coaches may give private music lessons or group workshops or masterclasses to singers. They may also coach singers who are rehearsing on stage, or who are singing during a recording session. Vocal coaches are used in both Classical music and in popular music styles such as rock and gospel. While some vocal coaches provide a range of instruction on singing techniques, others specialize in areas such as breathing techniques or diction and pronunciation.
WVocal pedagogy is the study of the art and science of voice instruction. It is used in the teaching of singing and assists in defining what singing is, how singing works, and how proper singing technique is accomplished.
WJason Barry-Smith is an Australian operatic baritone, vocal coach, composer, and arranger. He works with organisations such as Opera Queensland, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Seven Network, and the Queensland Youth Choir.
WLina Coen was a French-American musician of Dutch descent. She won acclaim as a pianist and vocal coach and was reportedly the first woman in the United States to conduct an opera.
WJean Del Val was a French-born actor, also credited as Jean Gauthier and Jean Gautier.
WDianne van Giersbergen is a Dutch spinto soprano singer-songwriter and vocal coach. She is the founder and frontwoman of Dutch progressive metal band Ex Libris, and she was the vocalist of German symphonic metal band Xandria from 25 October 2013, to 13 September 2017. She is currently on a sabbatical.
WRobert Stuart Hamilton, CM, Hon. LL.D, A.R.C.T. was an award-winning Canadian accompanist, vocal coach, and opera producer based in Toronto. He was a well-known advocate of post-Baroque French opera. He was recognized nationally for his work as the longtime quiz master for CBC Radio’s Saturday Afternoon at the Opera, he taught opera repertoire and diction at the University of Toronto.
WKim Hyung-soo, better known by his stage name K.Will (Korean: 케이윌), is a South Korean singer. The name is a combination of the first letter 'K' of his last name 'Kim' and the English word 'Will', which means will. He debuted in 2007 and has since become known for his chart-topping ballads. He has also been dubbed the "Prince of OST" for his frequent Korean drama soundtrack appearances.
WRasa Kaušiūtė is a Lithuanian singer, composer, and vocal teacher.
WLilli Lehmann, born Elisabeth Maria Lehmann, later Elisabeth Maria Lehmann-Kalisch was a German operatic soprano. She was also a voice teacher.
WRoger Love is an American vocal coach based in Los Angeles who has worked with many singers, actors and public speakers.
WMathilde Marchesi was a German mezzo-soprano, a singing teacher, and a proponent of the bel canto vocal method.
WAlexandros Panayi, born in Nicosia, Cyprus is a Greek Cypriot singer, composer, lyricist, producer, vocal coach, and vocal arranger. He is best known for having represented his country twice at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1995 & 2000.
WSanam Pasha is an Iranian songwriter, vocalist and vocal coach in rock and metal music. As a child, she learned Persian folk music and later went on to learn classical piano, vocals, and solfeggio. She also has an online Masters certificate in Songwriting and Vocals from the Berklee College of Music. She founded Sanam Pasha, an all-female rock band, in 2012.
WEytan Pessen is a pianist and voice teacher, currently at the Opera houses of Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris, Warsaw, Zürich and international festivals. He was former opera director of the Semperoper in Dresden, artistic advisor to Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and former casting director of the Staatstheater Stuttgart.
WMartin Rich, was a German opera and symphonic conductor.
WReza Shirmarz, is a Greece-based published and awarded playwright, translator, researcher, theatre director and essayist with more than 30 books both written and translated by him, collaborating with major publishing companies, theaters, drama schools, radio channels, journals, etc. in Iran. Reza Shirmarz was elected as a member of the board of directors of Iran's Playwrights Guild for 3 ongoing years. He has been a professional member of bodies such as Iran's Playwrights Guild, Pen America and Dramatists Guild of America. He also is a language specialist and a full member of Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL) in London.
WElina Siirala is a Finnish soprano. She is known as the founder and front woman for the English melodic metal band Angel Nation and the current female vocalist for the German symphonic metal/viking metal band Leaves' Eyes. Elina is the second cousin of Tuomas Holopainen, founder and keyboardist of Nightwish.
WPyotr Ivanovich Slovtsov was a famous Russian tenor.
WVibeke Stene is a Norwegian soprano and actress. She is best known as a former member of the gothic metal band Tristania, which she joined in 1996 and appears with on five albums. as the band became "one of the world's premiere goth metal bands".
WMargareta Svensson Riggs is a Swedish singer, pianist, songwriter, actress, voice teacher, vocal coach and television personality.
WYveta Synek Graff was a vocal and language coach and writer who helped popularize the performances of Czech operas internationally during the last quarter of the 20th century and early 21st century. Considered one of the world's leading authorities on Czech operas, she was described by The New York Times as the "secret weapon of Czech opera’s velvet revolution". She was widely admired for her translations of Czech operas into English which were utilized in performances by companies like the Metropolitan Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. She also coached artists for performances in Czech; including working on productions for the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the Los Angeles Opera, the New York City Opera, the San Francisco Opera, and The Royal Opera in London among others.
WDelia Micucci Valeri was an American vocal coach, born in Italy.
WFrank Laird Waller was an American athlete who specialized in the 400 metres. He later became a vocal coach.
WMarion Weed was an internationally-famous American opera singer with lead roles in the Metropolitan Opera, the Cologne Opera, and the Hamburg Opera. She was the Dean of Women and a Dramatic Instructor at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music.
WLana Wolf sang with many international artists, among which are The Trammps, George McCrae, Londonbeat, Frans Bauer, René Froger, Gerard Cox and Linda, Roos and Jessica as well as with the Metropole Orchestra.
WZeliş Şenol aka Zelish is a Turkish Cypriot singer who was born in Nicosia. She has been involved with music from a young age and has taken part in a number of festivals and toured all the major cities of Cyprus. She has also worked with Grammy winner, Billy Paul and sung in a concert with Billy Cobham. In 2007, she sang in the Europalia Festival in Berlin. She is a member of ‘Larkos Larkos’s’ music group ‘Kyprogenia’ and she performed during Cyprus’ induction ceremony into the European Union. She also studied to become an Actress between 2005-2009, now she is performing in Turkish Municipality Theatre.