Where can I go for vocal lessons in Vancouver?
What price would be reasonable for a private lesson for an hour?
Would it be better to go to a bigger name company such as Jan Cooper or go to a local community school?
Check around with the colleges and universities in your area, and find which ones offer degrees in “Vocal Pedagogy.” This is a music degree program that teaches students how to teach voice.
For recommendations for a vocal teacher, check with the choir director at your local High School. They are always plugged into the teachers in the area. Also as mentioned above, any college or university that has a music degree, will also be well plugged into the best teachers in the area.
I got two semesters of free lessons by volunteering to be a pedagogy major’s student. Each student in this degree plan must have a student to work with. I got into it when a voice coach for my chorus made the same suggestion I am giving you now. I went to the University of Colorado’s (10 miles from where I live) web site, and found that they offered Vocal Pedagogy. I checked out the degree plan and found the email address of the head of the department, and sent her an email offering to to be a student’s student if someone in her program needed to find one. The only thing I had to agree to was to show up for class two times during the semester so my teacher could demonstrate how he was teaching to the class.
I spent two semesters as his student and didn’t cost me a penny. After he graduated, I continued on with him, paying for my lessons. Worked great. Anything I needed, if he did not have the skill or knowledge to fix, he would take it to his teacher. His teacher even came to our lesson a couple of times to help work on my falsetto.