Raluca Marinescu Voice and Piano Studio
Discover Your True Voice
Learn New Techniques Guaranteed to Make You a Better Musician
While Finding Your Own Style
I'M HERE TO GUIDE YOU
Identify your goals & achieve them
Do you face vocal technical challenges you can’t seem to overcome?
Are you struggling with tongue, jaw, or throat tension while singing?
Do you want to learn how to better coordinate and refine technique throughout the whole range of your voice?
Do you want to learn how to use your voice in multiple styles and across different genres of music?
Piano lessons all ages
Learn to play the piano at any age. It doesn’t need to take years to learn how to play the piano. You don’t have to only play songs from hundreds of years ago. Learning piano can be faster, more fun, and easier than you thought.
Voice Lessons all ages
Classical, opera, oratorio, lieder, musical theater, CCM. Choose one or play with all!
College voice audition preparation
Special course for sophomore and senior high school students. The course is focusing on advanced technical training, song selection and coaching, audition preparation, and guidance in choosing an academic institution and vocal instructor.
Diction for singers
Learn to sing with confidence in English, Italian, French, German and Russian.
Music theory and history
Learn the fundamental concepts of music theory and music history while working on piano and vocal skills. Recommended for college admission preparation.
Online Lessons
Lessons offered online for both voice and piano. High speed internet and high Hz frequency UBS connected microphone recommended.
Start making music with confidence!
After I help you discover what you want, we'll work together to find the very best way of achieving it.
Voice lessons
BEGINNING STUDENTS
Understand basic vocal techniques and start finding your own true voice
Learn basic skills of music theory and note reading
Start building a repertoire of songs and arias
INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS
Expand your range
Navigate your break or “passage” smoothly
Refine your pitch, intonation, and tone quality
Build intimacy and trust with your instrument
ADVANCED SINGERS
Refine your technique and learn to use your voice sustainably
Work on full operatic or musical theater roles
Find more power, skill, ease, and grace
Work on microphone technique
Diction for singers
FOR ALL SINGERS
Learn to sing with confidence in English, Italian, French, German and Russian.
Achieving a resonant, expressive, and efficient singing voice is a primary
aim of vocal study, but meaningful communication through music is the ultimate goal. Without
lyrics, a singing voice loses the most distinctive characteristic of the instrument: the ability to
convey meaning through text.
Build knowledge of the
rules of pronunciation
Explore the meaning of each sung line and learn to shape your sound to match it (with breaks, connected phrases, volume and expression)
Piano lessons
BEGINNING STUDENTS
Develop keyboard awareness, learn piano fingering, basic technique skills, rhythm, ear training, and develop your overall musical ability.
PIANO PROFICIENCY FOR SINGERS
Repertoire
– Learn a prepared solo (level of Bach Invention, easy Haydn or Mozart sonatas)
Sight-reading
– Level of Clementi sonatinas.
Scales
– All major and harmonic minor scales
Arpeggios
– All major and minor arpeggios
Triads and Inversions
– All major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads
Seventh Chords and Inversions
– All major, minor, dominant,
7th chords
“Raluca helped me embark on a new path in my life. She instructs with passion and understanding, which only helps elevate my level of learning. Because she believes in my voice and piano abilities, I have been able to challenge myself beyond my comfort zone—which has helped me in other aspects of my life.“
Daniela H.
"I've learned so much from Ms. Raluca! She does a fantastic job of finding what works best for you and nurtures your abilities with unending patience. She's the best!"
Ananya K.
"Raluca is an amazing teacher. She has helped make learning music approachable and fun and I always look forward to our lessons. She took the time to understand my current skills and challenges and to set goals specific to my needs. I feel that I am held accountable to practice and also that I have flexibility when and where needed. If you are a busy adult who has always wanted to learn music but don't quite know how you'll swing it - Raluca will make it happen. I would recommend her as a teacher to a wide audience from child to adult, beginner to advanced."
Taylor B.
“My daughter became a student of Dr. Raluca Marinescu after showing interest in taking voice lessons, specifically opera. She is also giving her lessons in music theory/sight reading on the piano, which is an invaluable skill for any singer to have. Dr. Marinescu’s expert teaching, professionalism and kindness have contributed to my daughter feeling more confident and self assured, not only during class, but in her everyday life. We are so grateful to her. ”