Heidi Vass | Evidence-Based Voice

After over 2 decades teaching Voice and Vocal Pedagogy at the University, I took a break to design and build…

If you’re new to my page you might be wondering why I talk about Catholicism and My work in music. Let me…

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GenX didn’t leave Catholicism, we never experienced the fullness of the Faith in the first place. Growing up…

One of the best ways to build an agility exercise is to use familiar patterns that singers will encounter…

Head voice matters, especially in choral singing, where you need flexibility and more than one vocal color…

If you want to improve your singing, you have to find ways to increase the challenge of your exercises. One…

Bass Andrew Potter recently published an open letter in OperaWire announcing that he is retiring from staged…

A day in the life of a voice teacher means never knowing what’s coming through the studio door. In a single…

MANY singers get confused about nasal resonance. You want to feel sympathetic resonance or vibration in the…

Let’s face it, most of the singing you do won’t allow you to simply “park and bark.” You’ll spend long…

If all your vocal exercises begin at the BOTTOM and work their way up, you may be neglecting an important…

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A good vocal exercise should grow with you. Once the basic lip trill feels easy and coordinated, level it up…

When a Religious Mother reached out to inquire about my 90-Day Singer Development Intensive for several of…

We were working on choral singing today in her lesson… If YOUR voice gets tired in choir, it could be the…

Most singers spend years crafting the internal resonance that gives the voice its special “ring,” but few…

High notes get the attention. Low notes get the attention. But the middle voice is where singers do much of…

Want to get into the music school of your choice? Here is one of the simplest strategies that far too many…

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“If you don’t understand the tools in your toolbox, how can you ever build anything beautiful?”…

Vibrato is not inherently good or bad. Neither is straight tone. They are stylistic choices, and singers can…

I had a hunch that the authentic beauty of Catholicism was what young people actually needed to connect to…

The goal of practice isn’t simply to get better at repeating an exercise. It is to build a voice that can…