Overview
Whether you perform as a soloist or in a choral ensemble, or simply love singing, this course will help you improve your singing voice. This is designed to be a fun, innovative voice class tailored to fit each student’s individual needs. This course will help students gain knowledge of their voice, while developing artistry and stage presence. From choral music, classical, musical theatre, and pop, students will use ensemble and solo music to explore harmony, vocal technique, and how they can use their voice to tell a story.
Students will explore proper breathing techniques for breath support, vocal control, music reading, and learn basics in vocal pedagogy through class participation and observation in class that will work similarly to a Master Class setting. The class will culminate with a final in-class performance of songs learned in the course.
This class can be taken multiple times, with new songs and ideas introduced each semester!
Program Details
Ages: 18+
Dates: Mondays, 7:45–8:45 p.m.
February 24–May 12, 2025 (10 weeks)
Skip Dates: April 14 and 28, 2025
Tuition: $330
Location: Mason Community Arts Academy Building in Fairfax, Virginia
Program Faculty
Ashlyn Rock
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Ashlyn Rock (soprano) was born in Boulder, Colorado, and moved at a young age to California and across the country to the East Coast where she currently resides in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Sterling, Virginia. Ashlyn started her undergraduate as an English major but was compelled to take voice lessons her sophomore year under the instruction tenor John Aler. She completed a Bachelor of Music with an English minor, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ), America’s oldest and most prestigious honor society. She finds opera and art song contain the poetry and prose she loves in English, and believes classical music is the perfect pairing of her two major passions.
Ashlyn graduated summa cum laude with her Masters at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where she studied with William McGraw and Thomas Baresel. She completes her Artist Diploma at CCM with Amy Johnson in May of 2024. Ashlyn has also studied with Ruth Falcon, Danielle Talamantes, and Elizabeth Daniels.
When she is not studying music or teaching, Ashlyn enjoys practicing yoga, hiking, biking, reading, painting, writing poems and working on publishing her own book.
Notes
- Please note that group classes are subject to cancellation if minimum enrollment is not reached.
- Be sure to check our policies and procedures regarding registration, withdrawals, refunds, and more for fall or spring group classes.
- All students will receive a Welcome Letter via email at least one week before the class starts with all necessary details.
- Online registration closes two business days before the first class, however space may still be available. Please contact [email protected] for more information. A $10 late registration fee may apply.
- For additional information, please contact the Academy at [email protected].