As a young voice student, I felt that technique was something that distracted me from being "in the moment" or freely expressive. As my technique developed I learned that it is the tool that enables us to express our most subtle, profound, deeply felt ideas about music, story, text, and emotion.
However, technique is not the only thing a performer needs to be successful. At the Creative Voice Studio, we incorporate mock auditioning, studio classes on targeted topics, specific strategy and practice for auditions of all kinds, centering techniques and meditation, and coaching on interpreting feedback, positive self-talk, and self-coaching through stress.
In order to better prepare my students for auditions, performances and the ups and downs of being a performer, I conscientiously incorporate these life skills into our studio work. Singers learn to understand themselves, their voice, their passion, and creative environments and processes so they may pursue their goals with clarity, confidence, and determination.
Biography – Beth Canterbury
Soprano Beth Canterbury has earned a reputation as a versatile and dynamic teaching artist. Ms. Canterbury has always sought to combine her love of education and performance. After receiving her BA from Kenyon College in a self-designed interdisciplinary major, “Education Reform and the Role of the Arts in Society” she moved from the academic realm to the artistic one, receiving a MM in Opera Performance from the Longy School of Music. While at South Shore Conservatory, Massachusetts’ largest community arts school, Ms. Canterbury served as Chair of the Voice Department and Director of Education. Beth has sung opera, oratorio and lieder throughout New England and also appeared as a member of Opera Boston’s ensemble. She embraces opportunities to collaborate with living composers, including singing in the premiere of Madame White Snake, Zhou Long’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera. In a review of a concert of the music of contemporary composer Allen Shawn, The Boston Globe stated: "Canterbury sang with charm, warmth and easy high notes." Continuing to pursue her varied professional interests, Beth served as an A & R Consultant on Yo-Yo Ma’s Grammy Award–winning Gold Record Songs of Joy and Peace and has been the voice teacher at the Heifetz Institute, a summer program for advanced string players that focuses on communication and expression. Ms. Canterbury currently teaches at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts and her own Creative Voice Studio.
Beth's students have gone on to study music and theatre at schools including Carnegie Mellon University, CCM, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Penn State, UCLA, The Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Elon University, Northwestern, New England Conservatory, and Manhattan School of Music.
However, technique is not the only thing a performer needs to be successful. At the Creative Voice Studio, we incorporate mock auditioning, studio classes on targeted topics, specific strategy and practice for auditions of all kinds, centering techniques and meditation, and coaching on interpreting feedback, positive self-talk, and self-coaching through stress.
In order to better prepare my students for auditions, performances and the ups and downs of being a performer, I conscientiously incorporate these life skills into our studio work. Singers learn to understand themselves, their voice, their passion, and creative environments and processes so they may pursue their goals with clarity, confidence, and determination.
Biography – Beth Canterbury
Soprano Beth Canterbury has earned a reputation as a versatile and dynamic teaching artist. Ms. Canterbury has always sought to combine her love of education and performance. After receiving her BA from Kenyon College in a self-designed interdisciplinary major, “Education Reform and the Role of the Arts in Society” she moved from the academic realm to the artistic one, receiving a MM in Opera Performance from the Longy School of Music. While at South Shore Conservatory, Massachusetts’ largest community arts school, Ms. Canterbury served as Chair of the Voice Department and Director of Education. Beth has sung opera, oratorio and lieder throughout New England and also appeared as a member of Opera Boston’s ensemble. She embraces opportunities to collaborate with living composers, including singing in the premiere of Madame White Snake, Zhou Long’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera. In a review of a concert of the music of contemporary composer Allen Shawn, The Boston Globe stated: "Canterbury sang with charm, warmth and easy high notes." Continuing to pursue her varied professional interests, Beth served as an A & R Consultant on Yo-Yo Ma’s Grammy Award–winning Gold Record Songs of Joy and Peace and has been the voice teacher at the Heifetz Institute, a summer program for advanced string players that focuses on communication and expression. Ms. Canterbury currently teaches at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts and her own Creative Voice Studio.
Beth's students have gone on to study music and theatre at schools including Carnegie Mellon University, CCM, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Penn State, UCLA, The Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Elon University, Northwestern, New England Conservatory, and Manhattan School of Music.