Kelowna Voice Lab

An amazing thing  happened Sunday night when Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper performed the nominated song Shallow from A Star Is Born and as a vocal teacher, I'm amazed that no one is talking about it.

Sure, the internet is buzzing with inuendo that there is more to their relationship than director/actor. Articles have been written about how the song was cinematically staged, the intimate final moments of the song, even how they joined hands in front of Cooper's wife Irina Shayk as they rose to take the stage.

Kelowna Voice Lab is delighted to welcome guest vocal instructor Chad Abrahamson.

Chad has been involved with music all his life in one way or another. He started in a church choir at 9 and performed in a church musical original by the time he was 12. After that musical theater drove his world for years until he started classically training up to and through his years at the University of Manitoba for voice. 

Chad graduated last year with a bachelor of music in voice after 6 years. He was taught to speak…

It's that time of year again! Music has just been selected for the 6th annual Kelowna Voice Lab Christmas Concert and it promises to be our biggest and best concert to date!

The concert will be held at Montreal Real Foods in Kelowna - 1851 Kirschner Road. The doors open at 6:00 and the concert will begin at 7:00.

Students will be performing one solo each and will all perform together as a choir for two songs. Kim and Jim might also perform a song if time allows. 

We are especially excited that three…

Using a vocal coach isn't just for beginners. Three different adult students are currently using Kelowna Voice Lab to enhance their webinar presentations. When they first started, these successful adults knew they weren't fully prepared to present their material effectively. It wasn't that they didn't know their material... they did but they weren't communicating the "best self" they wanted to present.

I'm delighted to share that within two or three sessions, my clients felt a LOT more comfortable not only…

Congratulations KVL Students!

Because of your hard work making the 2016 Christmas CD, we were able to present a cheque  for $525.00 to the Kelowna Women's Shelter!

Kim Foreman-Rhindress presented the cheque to the Shelter's Executive Director Karen Mason on January 13, 2016 as well as a few complimentary Christmas CDs they said they would love to play in the shelter and in their gift shop next year.

The vocal student Christmas CD project was a huge success with 100 CDs being printed.

We will definitely plan to…

Kelowna Kiwanis Music Festival – 2016 
  
Nine students from Kelowna Voice Lab competed this year in the Kelowna Kiwanis Music Festival in both musical theatre and classical voice. This is the 90th year anniversary of this Canada-wide music competition. A total of 18 pieces were performed. For many students, it was their first time ever competing and I couldn’t be more proud of how everyone did at the competition. Our studio was extremely well represented and several awards were won. 


Kiwanis insists on RCM…

Going to see a performer live in a big venue is a big commitment of time and money. It’s expensive nowadays with an average concert ticket starting at over $50.00 (plus service charges). If you buy a bottle of water, that’s another $5.00… beer or wine? $10.00. Oh, and you want a t-shirt too? That’ll be another $40.00. Parking costs if it’s local, hotel costs if it’s farther away. Yikes!! Before you know it, you are $150.00 - $300.00 in for the evening and this is just a starting price - some tickets can…