Singing Lessons
photo: Chris Cameron
Voice Lessons and Coaching with Kate Hammett-Vaughan
One of Canada’s most respected teachers of the art of jazz singing, Kate teaches private voice lessons and classes in Vancouver, BC. With over a decade of experience as a singing teacher and vocal coach in one-on-one singing lessons and group classes, Kate’s warm and personal approach covers many essential facets of the art, including:
- freeing your voice
- developing your own sound
- choosing and developing your repertoire
- improvising
- lead sheet preparation
- communicating with your accompanist(s)
- rehearsal techniques
Read what Kate’s students say…
private instruction
Private students of all levels and ages are accepted year-round. To set up a consultation by telephone, please contact Kate by e-mail at help! (please include your telephone number in your message).
master classes
Book a Master Class for yourself, a group (2-10 people), or for your school class. Classes are two to three hours in length. Here are just a few of the topics that the classes can include.
- Developing the Voice: “Your Instrument”
- Warm-ups and vocal exercises that will give the singer control, strength, delicacy, and flexibility.
- Singing the Jazz Standards
- Importance of “knowing the tune”, developing your own repertoire, good arrangements, working well with instrumentalists.
- Vocal Improvisation
- Ways to approach “singing over chord changes”, exercises to explore vocabulary and develop both solo and group improvisational skills.
- Career Development
- Learn how to promote yourself as a singer. Promotional tools such as a resumé, bio, demos, contacts, mailing lists, etc. are discussed.
- Design your own Master Class in consultation with Kate
- help!
workshops
More about Kate’s workshops…
community college and university instruction
Kate is a faculty member at both of Vancouver’s fine jazz/contemporary music programs at Vancouver Community College and at Capilano University. For more information, contact: