Arden Kaywin
Arden Kaywin is one of the few voice professionals able to bridge the gap between classical “bel canto” vocal technique and the demands of the contemporary singer. Her career experience as both a conservatory trained classical singer and a contemporary pop recording artist & songwriter gives her a unique perspective well suited to technically nurture and artistically inspire the vocal artists she works with.
As a singer and recording artist herself, Miss Kaywin’s experience on both sides of the microphone is extremely valuable to her clients. She is an accomplished pop singer/songwriter with songs featured on numerous television shows on MTV, NBC, ABC and The CW networks, including the show Deliver Me on Discovery Channel for which she wrote and performed the theme song. Accolades include a nomination for Pop Song of the Year by the Independent Music Awards, Musiqtone’s Indie Artist of the Year Award, Next Big Hit - Top 10 Albums of 2008, and Rockwired Reader’s Poll Best Album, Best Female Artist, and Best Song “Let It Go”.
Miss Kaywin is also an accomplished classical singer having performed roles with major opera companies across the country including Opera Theater of St.Louis, The San Francisco Opera, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and The Aspen Opera Theater.
Education
Arden Kaywin holds a Masters of Music in Vocal Performance from The Manhattan School of Music in New York City where she studied classical voice and opera. She did her undergraduate work at Oberlin College and Conservatory earning a Bachelors of Music degree in Classical Voice and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. Arden has studied with renowned voice teachers Ron Anderson, Irene Gubrud, Joan Patenaude-Yarnell, Loraine Manz and Sherry Greenawald. Her coaches have include Warren Jones, Richard Bado, Michael Baitzer, Scott Rednour, Vicki Kirsch and Ann Baltz.
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As a singer and recording artist herself, Miss Kaywin’s experience on both sides of the microphone is extremely valuable to her clients. She is an accomplished pop singer/songwriter with songs featured on numerous television shows on MTV, NBC, ABC and The CW networks, including the show Deliver Me on Discovery Channel for which she wrote and performed the theme song. Accolades include a nomination for Pop Song of the Year by the Independent Music Awards, Musiqtone’s Indie Artist of the Year Award, Next Big Hit - Top 10 Albums of 2008, and Rockwired Reader’s Poll Best Album, Best Female Artist, and Best Song “Let It Go”.
Miss Kaywin is also an accomplished classical singer having performed roles with major opera companies across the country including Opera Theater of St.Louis, The San Francisco Opera, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and The Aspen Opera Theater.
Education
Arden Kaywin holds a Masters of Music in Vocal Performance from The Manhattan School of Music in New York City where she studied classical voice and opera. She did her undergraduate work at Oberlin College and Conservatory earning a Bachelors of Music degree in Classical Voice and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. Arden has studied with renowned voice teachers Ron Anderson, Irene Gubrud, Joan Patenaude-Yarnell, Loraine Manz and Sherry Greenawald. Her coaches have include Warren Jones, Richard Bado, Michael Baitzer, Scott Rednour, Vicki Kirsch and Ann Baltz.
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Arden Kaywin is a Los Angeles based Teacher of Vocal Performance who coaches singers and actors at all levels of study. She offers private voice lessons and private vocal coaching to students in Los Angeles and the greater Southern California area. Click on “Voice Lessons” above left for more details.
"A bird does not sing because it has the answer, a bird sings because it has a song." -Maya Angelou
SINGERS: Arden Kaywin is a private vocal coach and voice teacher for singers of all levels. Anyone, regardless of prior singing experience, will find their singing technique and vocal ability drastically improved from their time spent in lessons with Arden. Arden’s private lessons focus on teaching singers how to find greater freedom and creative expression through the use of their voice. The lessons emphasize the freeing of the body in order to access the most efficient use of breath and resonance. Arden’s private lessons help singers tap into the natural beauty of their voices through vocal warm ups, technical exercises and body work that frees them of the tensions that create a manufactured and unhealthy sound.
"Some people sing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference." - Jill Scott
RECORDING ARTISTS: Arden is an experienced and dedicated Vocal Producer working with music producers and recording studios in Los Angeles and around the world. Recording artists, record labels and record producers hire Arden in advance of recording sessions to work with artists in private lessons on the material they will be recording. With her dual expertise as vocal coach and recording artist, she is uniquely suited to take the singer beyond their limitations to discover the inspired performance within. After working one-on-one in a few lessons, Arden then attends all recording sessions of the material as Vocal Producer, working hand in hand with the producers and engineers and, most importantly, the artist, coaching and nurturing them throughout the session towards their best vocal performance. After the session, Arden stays on with the engineer to compile and edit the vocal takes into their final form. She has many years of recording and vocal producing experience in Los Angeles and enjoys working with developing artists. Click on "Vocal Producing Services" above left for more information on lessons for this kind of work.
"If a thing is too important to say, sing it." - Pierre Beaumarchais
ACTORS: Arden Kaywin provides singing instruction for actors of all disciplines and across the various mediums of television, film and musical theater. Actors in Los Angeles have many more jobs available to them if they are comfortable singing. Her lessons focus on the needs of each individual performer and the ways in which they would like to incorporate singing into their career. For example, many actors feel ambushed when extemporaneously asked to sing in an audition. Arden helps actors gain a sense of confidence about their singing voice through her lessons with them, enabling them to connect their instincts as a performer with the technical requirements of singing. Arden believes that it is crucial for actors to learn to connect to their breath energy. For many actors in Los Angeles, their work with a voice teacher in voice lessons has a way of reinforcing and expanding their work in acting classes. Arden has been working with the actors of the New York Film Academy at their Los Angeles campus in Hollywood and the actors of the X Repertory Theater in downtown Los Angeles as part of their Studio Intensive Acting Conservatory. She teaches a performance class called “Singing For Actors”, and has seen first hand how their singing training has contributed to huge breakthroughs in their acting.
"The total person sings, not just the vocal chords." - Esther Broner
ABOUT PRIVATE VOICE LESSONS: Arden Kaywin offers private voice lessons and coaching in Los Angeles for those who want to learn a more open, powerful and free expression through their singing voice. Arden’s style of voice teaching is based on a process that focuses on addressing the individual talents and challenges of the student singer. There are certain basic principles and techniques which make that process more clear. Arden’s teaching philosophy maintains that with a few simple tools learned over the course of private voice lessons, anyone can learn to sing and anyone can learn to access more power and freedom in their voice. For the majority of singers, taking private voice lessons enables the fastest and most dramatic results because of the one-on-one nature of the student teacher interaction. Arden aims to provide a “safe space” where students feel free to experiment and explore the full potential of their singing voices.
The best time to start private voice lessons is when you are free from the pressure of having a looming performance or audition on the near horizon. Waiting until the ninth hour to find a good voice teacher and start exploring the full potential of your instrument is not the best plan. It can lead to tension and stress in the learning process which can inhibit the full realization of your vocal and singing goals. The more time you take in advance to learn the ins and outs of your singing technique and your instrument, the more successful you will be in finding power and freedom of voice when it counts.
Arden’s goal as a voice teacher is to help her students realize their full potential as they develop their singing voice. In the lessons, she teaches her voice students efficiency of breath and how the mechanism of breath support works. She gives her voice students tools for undoing vocal tensions and bad habits that get in the way of the most efficient production of sound, tools for finding and maximizing their resonance, and ways to connect to the emotional content of the music so that they no longer connect emoting with manipulating their breath, voice or pushing their sound. Through working with Arden as a voice teacher and through commitment to voice lessons on a regular basis, students gain vocal confidence, balanced resonance, reliable breath support, and the ability to communicate more freely and expressively with their singing voice.
"I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing." - Bobby McFerrin
HEALING VOCAL PROBLEMS: Do you often loose your voice or find a scratchy, “horse” tone getting in the way of reaching your goals as a singer? An experienced voice teacher can help train you to develop new, efficient and healthy vocal habits. In addition to training singers in vocal techniques that will help them realize their most free and resonant sound, Arden is also a voice teacher sought out by students to help them fix specific vocal and singing problems like a warbling vibrato, “stuck” breath, compressed strident tone, extreme tongue tension, and flimsy or muffled resonance. Generally, none of these conditions are permanent and they can be ameliorated over time by working one-on-one in private voice lessons with an experienced voice teacher.
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A DIVERSE COMMUNITY OF SINGERS
As a voice teacher in Los Angeles, Arden’s students range from those who are just beginning to explore singing through voice lessons to those with extensive experience, many years of vocal training, and even professional singing credits in Los Angeles and across the country. Some students have never taken voice lessons before. Some have extremely successful singing careers but want to take voice lessons with a private voice teacher in order to brush up and polish their technique. Other students have a studied voice in the past and want to resume their vocal growth with a new voice teacher. Actors in Los Angeles often come to take voice lessons with Arden because they are cast in a role that requires them to sing and Arden helps them prepare. Actors also take singing lessons because they don’t like feeling ambushed when asked to sing extemporaneously in an audition and want more confidence in their singing voice. There are also those who come to Arden for private voice lessons as a recreational pursuit having a love of music, singing and performing.
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM AN EXPERIENCED VOICE TEACHER
An experienced voice teacher and vocal coach will help their students realize the full potential of their instrument by clearly imparting methods and tools for the voice student to access all facets of their voice. A good voice teacher will not dictate one, homogeneous way that all singers should sound. Rather, through the process of lessons, an experienced teacher like Arden will help each individual find his/her own unique sound and give them a healthy technique to strengthen it. The kind of approach that a voice teacher uses will generally vary a great deal depending on the strengths and weaknesses of each voice student. There isn't a formula, however there are universally accepted principles of healthy singing technique which an experienced voice teacher will base their methods on. Knowledgeable and experienced voice teachers and coaches will tailor their teaching methods to each student, taking into account his/her individual challenges.
OPTIONS FOR CHOSING THE RIGHT VOICE TEACHER
Students have a lot of options for voice and singing lessons in Los Angeles and the greater Southern California area. There are various websites with teacher listings including voice teachers who offer private voice lessons in Los Angeles as well as open singing classes and workshops around town. One great resource is www.PrivateLessons.com of which Arden is a member and listed as accredited teacher of voice and singing lessons. There are a variety of outstanding voice teachers from many backgrounds who teach many different techniques. There is not one type of voice training or one specific singing teacher who will be right for everyone. If you're looking for a voice teacher in Los Angeles it is best to try a few lessons with different teachers to find the one who’s lesson style, technique and teaching best suits you as the singer.
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STUDIO LOCATION
Arden Kaywin teaches voice lessons out of her comfortable home studio in the West Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles. The studio is easily accessible from the Fairfax or LaBrea exits off of the 10 Freeway. Singers and actors from Los Angeles, the greater Southern California area and around the country come to take private voice lessons with Arden in her Los Angeles based studio.
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Arden Kaywin teaches voice lessons out of her comfortable home studio in the West Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles. The studio is easily accessible from the Fairfax or LaBrea exits off of the 10 Freeway. Singers and actors from Los Angeles, the greater Southern California area and around the country come to take private voice lessons with Arden in her Los Angeles based studio.
Keywords: Voice, Lessons, Singing, Voice Lessons, Teacher, Singing Lessons, Voice Teacher, Singing Teacher, Professional, Private, Los Angeles, Southern California, Vocal Coach, Singing Coach, Voice Coach, Vocal Producer
