Singing Lessons and Voice Coaching, Durham, NC & Chapel Hill, NC

Laurece West Studios

Singing Lessons for Active & Aspiring Professionals

Voice Coaching for Confident, Effective & Creative Speaking

Monday - Friday 10 am - 6:00 pm

In Person, by Phone and Videocam

919. 383.4876
LaureceWestStudios@gmail.com
2104 Havenhill Place Durham, NC 27712 Southwing Music 630 Weaver Dairy Road #104, Chapel Hill, NC 27514

Develop Your Unique Voice!

Training at the Studio
Laurece West offers training in:
1) Singing - All popular styles. How to sing with ease, power, range, flexibility melodically and stylistically, passion and original style. How to maintain a healthy voice during a professional career.
2) Speaking - Voice Coaching for Business Leaders, Sales Persons, Actors, Poets, Announcers, Public Speakers, Teachers, and Persons with Vocally Demanding Jobs. Accent creation and remediation. How to speak dynamically for Voice Overs, speeches, lectures, performances, and sales. How to have the most effective, authentically powerful, healthy, resonant and creative voice.
3) Voice Workshops - Singing and Speaking with Ease; Finding Your Voice; The Spiritual, Emotional and Energetic Qualities of the Voice;

Microphones, PAs and Singing with a Band.

How to Get Started
1) Read the Testimonials page.

2) Read the Studio Policies page.
3) Read the page for your area of interest.

4) Fill out the registration form (on the Singing Lesson or Voice Coaching page,) & email it at least 2 days before meeting with Laurece.

5) For individual lessons - call Laurece to set up an informational interview at (919) 383-4876. This is a chance to meet and get your questions answered about studying in the studio.

6) If you need to reschedule, please give Laurece at least 24 hours notice.

7) Workshops participants may register online.

The Joy of Teaching

Blessed with patience, Laurece enjoys working with all types of clients. Laurece has taught: 4 to 70 year olds, a wonderful variety of nationalities, races and cultures, from tone deaf to highly musical, from excited kids to professional singers, athletes, business persons, actors, poets and performers. From Laurece's love of teaching a comfortable learning relationship develops. Laurece enjoys nurturing clients and witnessing them consistently getting better, more skilled, artistically interesting, expressive, grounded, and personally satisfied.

Philosophy of Teaching

Laurece's goal is to assist artists to develop into master artists with all the necessary skills to create original and timeless art. This process takes time! Artists have to develop great technique, to figure out who they are (authentically) and develop the ego strength to express it their true artistic vision. A unique style develops naturally as the student becomes technically competent and true to their authentic self. Laurece supports vocalists to develop through training in technique (ability and form) and artistry (performance, style and energy.) Through efficient technical training and accessible methods to develop artistry - a vocalist will develop a strong, flexible, artistically interesting and emotionally moving voice and an original sound.

Vocal overdubs for Essence of Love, Laurece's second CD at Infinity Studios in Manhattan, 2003.
A trick location for great reverb - the bathroom
vocal booth. The great sounds available in this
small room have been used by K.D. Laing and
other recording artists, as well as
shower singers everywhere!
Photo by Steve Giordano.

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