Suzanne Rigden is pleased to be returning to her Alma Mater in Vancouver as Assistant Professor of Voice and Opera at University of British Columbia for the upcoming year. She is a respected voice teacher known for bringing the best out in her students, and offers individual voice lessons, master classes, and workshops for choirs, focusing on such techniques as breath support, posture, vocal production, vowel modification, and blending. She has mainly provided these services in Montreal (including vocal classes at Concordia University), Toronto, Berlin, and Halifax (privately, as a choral director with Halifax Regional Arts, and as a voice teacher and lyric diction and vocal literature professor at Dalhousie University). Suzanne is able to provide voice lessons in preferably English or French, and now has adequate skills in German after spending five years in Berlin. She is also a skilled piano teacher for beginner and intermediate students.

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Testimonial from Laure Wasson: "Suzanne is the best voice teacher I have had so far. In the few years I was studying with her, I managed to extend my range, find the techniques that worked for my body, work on amazing rep, and improve in my musicality. The only reason why I'm not studying with her anymore is because I moved to New York. Still have to find a teacher and mentor as amazing as her."

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Recent high school students called her "a wizard" when reflecting on how much easier their high notes became in just one session.

 

Suzanne Rigden has studied vocal pedagogy at Memorial University and University of British Columbia, and has gained great experience on how to teach voice as a young artist at Opera Montreal, and during her two summers at the Merola Opera Program, San Francisco, and summers at Banff, AB, and Tanglewood, MA. For more information on Suzanne's career and teaching credentials and experience, please see her BIO and WHO AM I? pages.

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If you have questions for Suzanne Rigden, or would like to schedule one of these services, including voice and/or piano lessons, choral workshops, vocal coaching and workshops, and adjudicating, please click on Suzanne's CONTACT PAGE.