Voice

My name is Kelly Close and I am the owner/teacher of the Earth Bones Voice Studio at the Emerson Center. I teach private lessons in singing (all levels and styles) and Voice Body Integration as well as group lessons in voice/performance, managing performance anxiety, sight singing/music theory fundamentals and Voice Body Integration. Voice Body Integration is an holistically alternative way to explore vocal expression. It is based upon methods used in Voice Movement Therapy, an expressive arts therapy used to help individuals explore the self, free up and enhance vocal expression by means of vocalization, movement, creative visualization, breath work, creating and performing stories/songs, improvisation, and the use of VMT massage, which helps to facilitate muscular release for breathing and vocal production. I received a Bachelor of Music Education degree in Studio Voice from Montana State University, a Master of Arts degree in Vocal Pedagogy from The Ohio State University, and certification as a Registered Voice Movement Therapy Practitioner from VMTUSA in Martha’s Vineyard, MA.

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Teacher of voice and piano. Instruction stresses voice technique and development, appropriate repertoire, as well as voice reconstruction for voices damaged by overuse or bad technique, smoking, etc. I am a member of several professional music teachers associations. I am an active performing artist. Member of musicians union #709 and American Guild of Performing Artists.

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Russell Milburn is an active performer, conductor and teacher with a formal music education that began in Bozeman, Montana and ended in Europe. After studying under Lowell Hickman (Montana State University—Bozeman) for two years, Milburn went on to receive his Master of Vocal Performance degree (June 2001) through intense study of tonal and atonal solfege at the Lemmens Institute of Music and Drama in Leuven, Belgium. While his tenor instruction was principally guided by Gerda Lombaerts and Johan Uytterschaut, he was also an active participant in master classes by voice instructors Roland Wyatt, Rachel Ann Morgen, and Martin Hill. Along with his vocal performance degree, Milburn also acquired his teaching certification from the Lemmens Institute.
Milburn performed with the Flemish Radio Choir in modern choral productions recorded in the studio or performed live for public radio broadcast at venues throughout Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, and France. He also performed and recorded authentic Late Medieval and Renaissance chant with the renowned Gregorian chant ensemble, Psallentes. In addition, Milburn performed throughout Europe and recorded Baroque oratorio with the ensemble Cappella Brugensis based in Brugge, Belgium.
As a freelance tenor, Milburn’s solo work includes the following: the comic role of Polidoro in Mozart’s opera La Finta Semplice; Monsieur Vogelsang in Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirector; and King Kaspar in Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors. Along with scenes from Offenbach’s La Fortunio and Mozart’s Die Zauberflote, Milburn has also performed solos on the concert stage by Copland (from The Tender Land orchestral suite), Ralph Vaughan Williams (Four Hymns for tenor and orchestra), J.S. Bach (Magnificat), and other composers (Britten, Ives, Schubert, Schumann, Rossini, and Beethoven).
Milburn has worked as a studio voice instructor at the Conservatory of Music and Art in Leuven, Belgium, and the Conservatory of Music in Anderlecht, Belgium. He was a high school and middle school choral conductor and teacher in the Bozeman Public Schools from 2003 to 2006. He has served as a vocal adjudicator and currently operates a private vocal studio in Bozeman where he resides with his wife and three children. He is excited about beginning this season as the new conductor of the Bozeman Symphonic Choir as well as performing a role (Dr. Blind) and conducting the Intermountain Opera chorus in their production of Die Fledermaus.

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Mezzo-Soprano Emily Muller Callender wears many musical hats. As a vocalist she has sung opera and oratorio professionally throughout the NorthWest, and has also performed bluegrass and folk favorites for festivals and shows such as Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion”, and the Great Falls ‘Bluegrass on the Bay. Emily is the violist for the Bridger Quartet, and also teaches classical violin. She holds a master’s degree in classical vocal performance from Eastern Washington University and a bachelors in music from Eastern Oregon University. With both schools she studied voice, piano, violin, and viola, and the instrument specific pedagogy for each. She is married to fiddle player Isaac Callender, and enjoys teaching and playing progressive texas-style fiddle and guitar as well as the classical material. She currently lives in Livingston, and teaches in both Livingston and Bozeman.

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I have been teaching piano to all ages for over seven years! I believe in a creative and individual approach to teaching music. I hold two bachelor’s degrees in Music. I am a Board Certified Music Therapist experienced in teaching adaptive lessons to those with physical disabilities. Please check out my website at www.healingharmonymt.com I would love to help you explore the wonders of music!!!

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I have been teaching Classical piano, Improvisation, Jazz, Blues, Theory and Composition for many years and am dedicated to spreading my love for music to students of all ages and experience. I also coach voice students, vocalists who want to learn to accompany themselves on piano and any instrumentalists who are interested in jazz and pop.
My goal is to encourage those who appreciate and want to learn about music by guiding with insight, joy and thoughtfulness. I can tailor a program of study and practice that can help a student achieve many small goals, overlapping into a long curve of progress.
I currently am teaching at Music Villa in Bozeman and my house in Manhattan.
For more information call 539-1986
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