<p>For those of you who are currently in the voice audition process for music school, The New Forum for Classical Singers is a wonderful place to find information on teachers if you are struggling to figure out who to have lessons with when you are going to auditions.</p>
<p>Simply navigate to the Recommendations and Warnings section, and click "Search" in the upper right hand corner of the page. From there you can type in the names of the teachers at the schools you are applying to.</p>
<p>This was a wonderful resource for my daughter when she was going through auditions. There were so many teachers and we had no idea where to start. NFCS really helped.</p>
<p>I second this recommendation!</p>
<p>great resource. I use it ALL the time</p>
<p>Be careful about that site. There are many anonymous posters who have their own sometimes bitter agenda, and many are just plain not very nice. It is a small subset of posters and opinions. </p>
<p>Direct contact through current teachers and their contacts is a wiser way to go. They all went to school somewhere, had teachers, colleagues, friends, etc., and they know other professional musicians and teachers who are working and teaching. With social media as active as it is, most can find out what you want and need to know.</p>
<p>Lorelei2702 is correct(yet again). I have read more biased misinformation on that site than I care to mention. Also Musicmom84 please consider this sites TOS when posting links to outside forums and blogs.</p>
<p>I appreciate your perspective, lorelei and musicamusica. I have VERY occasionally perused that site ever since I first saw it mentioned here on CC (some time ago). But I HAVE read some surprising things on there that really made me question the site’s credibility! (Well, the fact that anybody can post anything, whether or not it’s true.)</p>
<p>In fact, just the other day, I read from a poster who claimed that Marlena Malas (Juilliard and Curtis, plus Chautauqua Institute) was basically worthless as a teacher and that he hadn’t learned one worthwhile thing from her. Huh?? How could THAT be?? She’s a noted, well-respected professional. She didn’t have one, single thing to offer that gentleman in the course of time? Very suspect. For me, that spoke far more to the guy posting than to the hard-working teacher he chose to publicly criticize for all the world to see.</p>