<p>How do students at Tisch receive their vocal instruction? On a private basis or as part of a class? I ask this because my D is trying to decide whether to apply to Tisch or to Steinhardt?</p>
<p>Students in the New Studio on Broadway receive a weekly private voice lesson beginning in the first semester in addition to a semester class called “Small Group Voice”. The weekly private voice lessons continue on but I have no idea whether the group voice classes continue on in the second third and fourth years. </p>
<p>If you are in an acting studio you can get a private 30 minute weekly voice lesson taught by a Tisch Drama Department voice faculty. However, this will take up 2 elective credits while the New Studio on Broadway students do not have to use their elective credits for their voice lessons.</p>
<p>If you are assigned to a primary acting studio and decide that you want to do the musical theater practicum at Playwrights Horizons Theater school, they also provide private weekly voice lessons (45 minutes I believe).</p>
<p>But you should keep in mind that Steinhardt is a music school so the emphasis is definitely on voice/music. While Tisch Drama is an acting/drama school, with an emphasis on acting, the foundation of all kinds of theater.</p>
<p>Clay, I’m not sure how New Studio will be working it, but when my daughter was in CAP21, the weekly private voice lessons did count as a two credit elective (though it was required). Perhaps it doesn’t count as elective credits in New Studio. I don’t know. But yes, private voice lessons are part of the MT curriculum at Tisch, and there are vocal classes in addition to that.</p>
<p>Steinhardt musical theatre students take acting, scene study, song analysis and dance classes as well as voice and music requirements. Your best bet is to compare the two curriculum to see which suits your needs the best. I know that the course listing is available on-line for Steinhardt. <a href=“http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music.olde/file_uploads/BMMTNewYork.pdf[/url]”>http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music.olde/file_uploads/BMMTNewYork.pdf</a></p>
<p>Besides private voice lessons in New Studio on Broadway starting first semester of freshmen year, I know that the freshmen have a Song Performance class taught by Sutton Foster.</p>
<p>My daughter just started in the Meisner studio at Tisch but is taking an elective in voice ( 2 credits) this semester throug Steinhardt. Once a week for 30 minutes . She wanted MT but so far is really happy with her studio. There is a long waiting list for private voice at Tisch so she decided to go through Steinhardt. She registered early so I’m not sure how may other students have done this.I know they are quick to fill- her lesson is actually on Saturdays!</p>
<p>We have private voice one hour/ week with a teacher outside of the NSB faculty, we have a 90 minute long “Small Group Voice” class with Michael McElroy weekly, and we have a Song Performance class every week taught by Sutton Foster. We also take Keyboarding and sight-singing/ music theory class. Hope that helps!</p>
<p>mema, enjoy Michael’s class! He’s wonderfully talented and such a terrific person. Have known him for many years and was very happy to hear last year that he was joining the faculty at Tisch.</p>
<p>My daughter has been taking voice all summer with a teacher at Steinhardt and she enjoys it so much. So if she applies to Tisch and by some stroke of luck gets in, she was hoping to be able to at least use electives to continue voice with this teacher…she is undecided still between Tisch and Steinhardt…</p>
<p>Thanks that does help and I will pass that on to my daughter…</p>
<p>Will Sutton be teaching the class next year as well?</p>
<p>Did Song Performance at NSB replace Sutton’s Cabaret class that was open to kids from other studios???</p>
<p>nope - she taught both the new studio classes and the cabaret class (whose students did a fabulous job at joe’s pub on saturday) this semester; doubt she is going to teach in the spring as she starts working on anything goes.</p>
<p>My daughter is a first year at Stella Adler. Loves it, and has been taking private voice lessons with a Steinhardt graduate student. I was surprised she was not able to take lessons with a faculty member but this seems impossible.
I would like her to take lessons this summer with a Steinhardt teacher but had no luck finding someone last summer. Any advice as to how to get in touch with them and assigned a faculty member not a graduate student???</p>
<p>I don’t think you will be able to get a Steinhardt faculty member to teach voice through the school unless you are in Steinhardt and most likely you would need to be a VP major.</p>
<p>However, if you are willing to pay, you can probably get them to teach privately. But obviously there is a real expense involved…some of the faculty members charge the NY-going rate of $150/hr.</p>
<p>If you want to get in touch with them and find out about their private studio lessons, you can probably research faculty member names on the Steinhardt Vocal performance faculty website and then do a google search if contact info is not available.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice! If we have success down any avenue we will let you know</p>
<p>My daughter is a third year Adler student. Private voice lessons are available but are through a lottery system. She didn’t make the cut freshman year, and so got no voice lessons. Sophomore year she made it, and was also with a Steinhart grad student; she dropped it 2nd term that year because she didn’t feel she was learning much from him.</p>
<p>Finally this year she got a voice lesson with a teacher who is a professor, and she loves working with him. She says he is the first teacher who hasn’t asked her what she wants to work on and instead gives her instruction on what he feels she needs. She feels like she is learning a lot from him. He was just assigned to her, she didn’t request anything.</p>