The Young Company offers half-hour private voice lessons with professional and engaging coaches. Throughout these lessons, students explore vocal technique, musicianship, song repertoire, and audition skills. Lesson curriculum and song selection are developed between student and instructor and tailored to the students’ specific goals. These lessons are a great fit for beginner singers as well as experienced vocalists looking to expand their skill set and experience. We welcome students in grades 1-12 as well as adults. All lessons are offered in-person at Greater Boston Stage Company.
Our Winter Session runs for 6 weeks from March 16th – April 27th (no lessons during the week of April 20th). Registration for Winter Session opens on March 3rd at 12pm.
Our Spring Session runs for 8 weeks from April 27th – June 15th. Registration for Spring Session opens on March 26th at 12pm.
Your lesson time will be selected at registration. Times are selected on a first-come, first-served basis.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out!
Private Voice Instructors
Winter Session:
Carrie Tully
Mondays 3:00p-7:00p
Tuesdays 3:00p-7:00p
Thursdays 5:00p-7:00p
1st Grade – 6th Grade
Carrie (she/her) is a Boston-based actor, singer, music director, and teacher. She is a recent graduate of Emerson College where she received her BFA in Musical Theatre and studied education under the direction of Bethany Nelson. Carrie is an alumnus of The Young Company, having first joined in 2017. Learning with The Young Company was highly influential to Carrie’s skills and ethos as a performer and as a teacher.
In addition to her extensive training in vocal technique and acting through song, she is an experienced pianist and arranger, having trained with renowned musicians in the Boston area for more than 15 years.
Spring Session:
Soren Austenfeld
Mondays 4:00p-6:00p
Tuesdays 4:00p-6:00p
Wednesdays 4:00p-5:00p
7th Grade – Adult
Bio:
Soren (he/him and they/them) is active as a music director, ensemble and solo performer, and voice educator throughout the Boston area, and he has presented on vocal pedagogy topics at organizations across the United States, including the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Soren brings a compassionate and creative presence to the voice studio, with broad and deep technical knowledge and a responsive approach centered on each student’s development as a whole artist. Soren holds an M.M. in Vocal Pedagogy from New England Conservatory, has taught private voice for over seven years, and coaches repertoire and technique across multiple genres, including contemporary commercial music, musical theatre, and classical. He speaks German and French and is working toward greater proficiency in Spanish and Italian. Outside the studio, Soren enjoys songwriting and hiking.
Spring Session:
Anna Simmons
Wednesdays 4:00p-8:00p
Fridays 4:00p-8:00p
1st Grade – 12th Grade
Anna Jean Simmons (she/her) is a classically trained soprano, librettist, and educator. Having taught students of all ages and skill levels, Anna is passionate about helping students find a sense of self in their singing. She teaches students to connect the voice, brain, and body, and prioritizes finding a clear and free sound rooted in strong technique. Anna is equally at home both performing and teaching opera, musical theatre, and contemporary commercial music; cross training her students is a high priority to foster a well rounded voice. Anna has an active, cross-genre performance and writing career, and is additionally proficient in both piano and French language.
Anna received her MM in Vocal Performance from the Longy School of Music under the tutelage of Angela Gooch, and holds a BM from the University of Dayton with majors in Vocal Performance and French.
Spring Session
Ohad Ashkenazi
Mondays 3:30p-7:30p
Tuesdays 3:30p-7:30p
1st Grade – 12th Grade
Ohad Ashkenazi is a Singer, Actor and Educator from Boston, MA. He is the founder of Ohad Vocal Studio, where his students learn to demystify their voice and build a reliable, sustainable relationship with their instrument. His approach is student-centered; rooted in the science of motor learning, sports psychology and the anatomy and physiology of the voice. This, coupled with a special emphasis on artistry and storytelling, leads the student to discover their unique artistic fingerprint and bloom as a performer. His specialties include teaching ESL students to sing naturally and smoothly in English, Musical Theater, Improvisation and Embellishment (Riffs/Runs) and working with trans & non-binary performers (like any individual, the voice is not defined by, or limited to, any particular gender expression.)
For more information, visit: https://www.ohadmusic.com/vocal-studio
As a musical artist, Ohad has self-produced and released 2 EPs which have amassed 60K streams on Spotify, 122K views on YouTube, radio & music festival appearances in Israel, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia. His recording experience includes voiceover and soundtrack recording for film and television (Shkufim, Shababnikim) and studio albums (Music Kreation II), and he has performed in numerous pride events, music festivals, concerts, and as a backing singer to Israeli legends Ohad Hitman, Shlomit Aharon, Yehoram Gaon and more.
Selected theatre credits include: Something Rotten! (Lyric Stage), Bandstand! (Sullivan Repertory Theatre), The Ballad of Little Jo (Treehouse Collective)), The Thanksgiving Play (Moonbox Productions).
