A vocal coach, also known as a voice coach, is a music teacher, usually a piano accompanist, who helps singers prepare for a performance, often also helping them to improve their singing technique and take care of and develop their voice, but is not the same as a singing teacher. Vocal coaches may give private music lessons or group workshops or masterclasses to singers. They may also coach singers who are rehearsing on stage, or who are singing during a recording session. Vocal coaches are used in both classical music and in popular music styles such as rock and gospel. While some vocal coaches provide a range of instruction on singing techniques, others specialize in areas such as breathing techniques or diction and pronunciation.
Vocal coach Seth Riggs at a 2013 vocal workshop
Grete Menzel (left, here in 1968 with a trainee and his mother Birgit Ridderstedt) was a self-taught vocal coach living and working at a large hotel in Salzburg in the latter part of the former century; she was used by many famous singers and had an unusual method focusing on the pronunciation of vowels and corresponding vibration of the lungs
Music education is a field of practice in which educators are trained for careers as elementary or secondary music teachers, school or music conservatory ensemble directors. Music education is also a research area in which scholars do original research on ways of teaching and learning music. Music education scholars publish their findings in peer-reviewed journals, and teach undergraduate and graduate education students at university education or music schools, who are training to become music teachers.
A German kindergarten teacher instructs her pupils in singing
An elementary music teacher instructing a child in 1957 in the Netherlands.
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze
Depiction of Curwen's Solfège hand signs. This version includes the tonal tendencies and interesting titles for each tone.
