I help you design your unique sound, while maintaining a healthy, effective and sustainable vocal function. 

You’ll get to experience a voice that is expressive, authentic, confident and powerful, flexible across the range, able to switch styles and access a variety of colours and effects.

You’ll gain understanding in how your voice works, and learn to relate to it with curiosity, openness, patience, appreciation and trust, rather than from a place of fear, judgment, impatience or criticism. 

My methodology for teaching vocal technique has developed over the past 20+ years of having been at the cutting edge of vocal pedagogy and studied methodologies including Complete Vocal Technique, Estill Voice Training based techniques, Bel Canto, from continued education in the fields of voice science and various vocal pedagogy approaches, and from having taught and coached hundreds of singers on all stages of their vocal journey from complete beginners, devoted hobbyists, music university students and emerging artists to seasoned professional recording and performing artists.

Your own mindset can be either supportive or unhelpful to your attempts to develop new skills, learn and confidently perform new repertoire, create new artistic work, and work on new goals in your creative career and artist business. 

In our work together, I’ll help you identify and shift the mindset, patterns and habits that are limiting your creative work and affecting it negatively. You’ll learn to recognise what stories you’re holding on to that aren’t supporting you in achieving your creative goals and the vision you hold for your artist life and career. 

You’ll also learn how to develop mindful practice habits that help you stay in the now and increase your focus and productivity.

I’ll guide you to the source of your own artistry, help you develop and highlight what’s unique about you, clarify your why and your vision. 

We can get there through a variety of ways, including music interpretation, style study, storytelling, using vocal effects like growls and creaks, improvisation, vocal and musical embodiment, and tapping into your imagination and creativity. Joyful and playful music making is at the heart of this work: creativity does not flourish in a paradigm where rigidity rules and we’re afraid to make mistakes.

At times, it can be helpful to include aspects of artist coaching into the work, to clarify your values, your mission and vision.

You’ll have access to my wealth of knowledge and experience from years of extensive studies in jazz, world music, and contemporary commercial music styles, vocal improvisation, from having toured with my own concert productions and theater show, worked in theater as a maker and coach, having taught voice and music interpretation at music university, and having coached recording and performing artists in developing their signature sound, clarifying their artistic identity and vision.

With me as your coach, you’ll have a coach who not only helps you enhance your vocal technique skills, but helps you integrate all parts of you and find out what makes you unique.

While my classes and programs are mostly in English, I also teach and coach in my native languages Finnish and Swedish, and in Dutch that I am fluent in after having lived and worked in The Netherlands for 21 years.