Eileen Ruby, MM; The Vocal Artist's Studio

Students generally come to individual voice lessons looking for help.
While interests may include two or more styles, it is common to start in one area and cross over into a new or additional area of concentration after the first is mastered. Simultaneous study of more than one style is always possible.

Voice teacher and performing artist Eileen Ruby has been encouraging people to let go and sing from the heart for thirty-two years. She holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from UMASS, Amherst and has engaged in more than twenty years of independent studies of Yoga, Qi Gong, Meditation, Sound Healing, Alexander Technique and BodyMapping.

A four semester traditional solfeggio program that will put you on the road to becoming a fluent music reader. Get the basics in the first year, or continue toward the intermediate level in year 2. Here is an opportunity to fall in love with the Do-Re-Mi's, i.e. solfeggio, while making fast progress toward learning to sight read music.

Eileen is also a life coach and offers weekly coaching session on all topics related to life in the arts and academia. Includes Survey of Individual Strengths, Goal Setting, Marketing, Time and Practice Management, Survey and Critique of recordings, and much more. Write to inquire. For people who are interested in finding their authentic voice in communication, these sessions will help you learn to tune into your unique vocal tone, and improve the energy of your communication.Work on diction and delivery while reading poetry, monologues, or speeches and find your own unique and compelling style.

I often start the day reading, and then vocalizing just happens while I do the breakfast dishes. There's a rhythm to these morning activities that feels comfortable and natural. Sometimes though, especially lately, nothing I'm reading calls to me. This little post is for one of those days. About a decade ago, I had a two cassette boxed set of Coleman Barks and Robert Bly reading Rumi with accompanying instruments, and I listened to it a lot. It went out on loan and I haven't thought about it in a long time.

Eileen Ruby, mezzo-soprano, performs frequently in recital and oratorio throughout New England and teaches voice privately in Greenfield and Amherst, and at Holyoke Community College and Deerfield Academy. Ms. Ruby has performed with the Keene Chorale, Arcadia Players Baroque Orchestra, and Commonwealth Opera, and with all of the Pioneer Valley's Five Colleges.

Eileen began her music training at age five. Her mother was her first piano teacher and she was performing solos in school chorus by sixth grade. She holds a Master of Music in Classical Voice Performance and a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance and Music Education, magna cum laude, form the University of Massachusetts where she studied with soprano, Paulina Stark.

She is certified in Somatic Voicework the Lovetri Method Level Three, is a certified practitioner of Integrative Acupressure and is a Reiki Master. Her teaching is informed by eighteen years of cross cultural spiritual studies, Qi Gong, Yoga, Alexander Technique, and Body Mapping. She teaches and performs classical and contemporary styles throughout the Pioneer Valley. She has been teaching voice since 1989.