You can learn to sing.
Whether you’ve never had a lesson, or you’ve sung in choirs for thirty years and still freeze the moment you’re alone — the voice you’re looking for is usually closer than you think.
One full hour, at no cost and with no obligation. Gaithersburg, MD and McLean, VA.
Most people who come to me arrive with one of these three sentences.
I’ve never had a lesson in my life.
Good. Beginners aren’t the harder case — they’re often the fastest. There’s nothing to undo, no one has told you to do six things at once, and no habit has had twenty years to set. Some of the largest changes I’ve seen came from people whose only previous venue was the car or the shower.
You don’t need to read music. You don’t need a background in anything.
I can sing in a choir. Alone, I fall apart.
This is a real and specific problem, and it isn’t only nerves. Choral singing trains you to blend, to sit inside a section, to never quite carry the sound by yourself. Those are genuine skills — and almost none of them transfer to standing up alone.
Turning a choral singer into a soloist is one of the harder jobs in voice teaching. It’s the one I’ve spent the most time on.
I think I’ve left it too late.
You haven’t. Older voices change, but they don’t stop being teachable, and I work with students well into their seventies and beyond. We’ll work with the instrument you have now, not the one you had at twenty.
If anything, adults learn faster. You can describe what you’re feeling, and you’re here because you chose to be.
Why I’m comfortable telling you it will work
Most voice teaching is handed down by tradition — a long chain of “this is how my teacher taught me,” rarely tested and often contradictory.
My doctoral work went the other direction. I ran one of the very few controlled, quantitative human-subject studies ever conducted on a specific singing intervention, and spent the rest of the thesis on a harder question: what would it actually take to study singing pedagogy rigorously in the first place?
That’s why I’ll say something most teachers won’t. If you don’t hear a clear difference in your own voice within four lessons, we stop. I’d rather you keep your money than spend a year with a method that isn’t reaching you.
The first hour is free precisely so you can test that before deciding anything.
In their words
I was a shower singer who wanted to take it to the next level … it took my singing from decent, to incredible.
I was 43 years old when we started … I found my singing voice, and now, at 60, I’m finding my instrumental voice as well.
I can wholeheartedly recommend him to those who are skeptical that improving their singing is even possible.
The first hour is free. Come and sing.
Bring a song you like — anything, any style. We’ll spend an hour finding out what your voice actually does, and you’ll leave knowing whether this is for you. There’s no pitch at the end.