Master voice by studying with the legends you want to become and contemporary powerhouses shaping the future of vocal performance today. Our “artist-as-mentor” pedagogy means you can take take private lessons with more than thirty vocalists-musicians like La Tanya Hall, Amy London, Kate Baker, and Sarah Elizabeth Charles. Other great vocal faculty include Carla Cook, Marlon Saunders, Richard Harper, Julie Hardy, and Charlotte Small.
Improvisation is in our DNA, giving you the flexibility and choice to shape your training to fit who you want to become as a vocalist, performing the music you want to perform. Each semester, choose which ensemble you play in from among eighty options. You'll rehearse, record, and performing under the direction of our talented faculty, like Story, Song and Stage with La Tanya Hall. Choose from ensembles like Thelonious Monk Ensemble, Herbie Hancock Ensemble, Charles Mingus Ensemble, Rhythm & Blues Ensemble, Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, and more.
Begin your career in the heart of New York City's jazz and music scene. Get exposed to contemporary music as it is being played-and have a chance to make it yourself. Recently, vocal students have performed at Summer in the Square in Union Square Park, as well as the Walker Hotel Greenwich Village through our partnership. Plus, we're the only school with a jazz club, The Stone, in our lobby.
Learn to think about art, life, collaboration, and creativity in new and unexpected ways-enriching who you are as a musician. Take classes across The New School, including courses in our design school, Parsons, and our liberal arts college, Lang. In one semester, you might work on mastering composition while also looking critically at how music and social justice intersect in the world today. Leave the New School a more well-rounded and prepared artist for the 21st century.