Christine Oppedisano

Chrissie is a native Californian, Certified Advanced level IVA instructor and has been teaching singing for over 10 years. Chrissie considers herself a voice technician and coach as well as an audition prep expert in the performance aspects of singing. She has been an IVA instructor since its inception in 2013. Prior to that she was an SLS instructor. She has appeared on Italian television and film and has performed in musical theatre and jazz festivals in Italy and Southern California. She is the author of "American Diction for Non-Native Speakers", a two volume series on American pronunciation for non-native speakers wishing to improve their accents. She currently teaches an international clientele  and in her free time is a sailing fanatic and oil painter.

I will teach you HOW to sing which will allow you to sing any genre or style that you prefer.  The technique will enable you to sing with a balanced voice, in other words, not singing with too much muscle or too much airflow.  In very rudimentary terms, when these two things are not balanced, singing is strained or squeezed, it can lack power, it causes cracks or breaks through the middle range of the voice.