PRIVATE LESSONS
Michigan Opera Theatre offers private music lessons year round, for beginners and beyond, in voice (all genres), piano, and composition.
Voice and Music Staff
Karen VanderKloot DiChiera, piano, composition, singing
(313) 237-3406
kvd@motopera.org
About Karen V. DiChiera
Karen V. DiChiera is an educator and composer who created the Department of Community Programs Michigan Opera Theatre. More recently, she created Learning at the Opera House at the Detroit Opera House. When Michigan Opera Theatre founder and director Dr. David DiChiera took over the running of the Dayton Opera Company in Ohio and Opera Pacific in Orange County California, Ms. DiChiera also created programs on the American Disability Act at Dayton Opera and created the Department of Community Programs for Opera Pacific.
Ms. DiChiera is a popular lecturer on many topics including opera, fairy tales and legends, Detroit and Michigan history, women composers, education, disabilities, opera composers and many other topics.
Learning at the Opera House was awarded the Education Success Award by Opera America, the service organization for opera companies in North America. Many other awards have been given to Michigan Opera Theatre’s Department of Community Programs. Ms. DiChiera is the second recipient of the Michigan Governors’ Arts Award in Education.
Candace de Lattre, voice technician, opera
(810) 287-0236
cdelattre@motopera.org
About Candace de Lattre
Candace de Lattre, Mezzo-contralto, received her Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Pedagogy and Performance and her Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Michigan State University, where she studied with Leona Scheunemann Witter. She received her Specialist in Music, Voice, from the University of Michigan, studying with George Shirley, Katherine Hilgenberg, Eckart Sellheim, and Eugene Bossart. Ms. de Lattre continued her postgraduate studies in New York, Toronto, and Graz, Austria, studying with Martin Rich, Edwin McArthur, Ernesto Barbini, Robert Spillman, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Walter Legge, John Wustman, Robert Evans, Sheila Harms, Maureen Forrester, Nico Castel, Chloe Owen, and Irma Cooper.
Betty Lane, singing voice specialist, vocal health educator
(313) 237-3238
blane@motopera.org
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About Betty Lane
As a Singing Voice Specialist and Vocal Health Educator, Betty Lane is particularly interested in matters of vocal wellness, preventative care, vocal production and preservation of both the singing and speaking voice. Her personal area of research, development and expertise is that of working with abused and misused voices, with a special concentration on the non-classical voice user. Her work in these areas has been supported by a mini-fellowship from Dr. Robert T. Sataloff, MD, DMA/Otolaryngologist, Chairman of the Voice Foundation and Director of the American Institute for Voice and Ear Research in Philadelphia, where under his direct supervision, she trained as a Singing Voice Specialist, learning to utilize singing techniques as an alternative tool for vocally troubled and injured singers as well as speakers.
Trish Shandor, voice911
(586) 872-0445
teeshandor@hotmail.com
Voice 911
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About Voice 911
The Voice 911 program is vocal learning customized to the specific needs of the student, including proper breath control and support, eliminating vocal strain, expanding a limited range, hitting high notes, understanding pitch, tone, melody and functional harmony, eliminating breaks between registers, understanding the connection between your voice and your body. The program also emphasizes performance techniques and handling anxiety. After Voice 911 training, student’s voices and performances should feel effortless and free, powerful, controlled, and without fatigue.
Get on the schedule today! For more information call (586) 872-0445
