free your voice
free your voice
Welcome! I am Celia Miller, vocal coach at Celia’s Voice Studio. My goal as a teacher is to help each singer discover and release their unique voice with a foundation of healthy vocal technique. You can sing effortlessly and powerfully. I teach private lessons and workshops, host performances for passionate singers (Singers Café), and am a published singer-songwriter on piano and guitar.
FREE YOUR VOICE
I love the challenge of figuring out the heart of a singer’s voice, and what they need to do, starting now, to see progress in weeks.
My favorite thing to teach singers is how to blend or mix their lower and upper registers - it impacts so many things. Your tone, pitch, and flexiblity. Sing powerfully without fear of strain, breaks, pitch problems or limited range.
In your sessions with me you will gain practical, visual and felt insight into how your voice works, and gain the tools to improve your singing for recording, performing, auditioning, songwriting, even speaking.
My background is in R&B, jazz, and folk but I also love to teach musical theater, rock, and pop.
My other passions as a teacher are to release the performer in you, to work with your songwriting, to unlock the magic of music theory with all its wonderful patterns, and to help you develop an accompanying instrument if you wish, like guitar, piano or ukulele.
With a background of 7 years training with master teachers of vocal technique, 16 years of teaching in my private studio, Greenfield Community College, and the Springfield Conservatory of Music, and 30 years of performance, recording and songwriting, I am an ideal teacher for singers serious about improving their voice!
testimonials
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"Wicked good at what she does."
Celia is wicked good at what she does. She teaches technique. She troubleshoots. She keeps you on your toes. She inspires and encourages and by the end of the lesson you will realize you’ve worked harder than you expected, and made some great strides. Voice teacher doesn’t quite cover all that she does. James Smith
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"intuitive, knowledgable, efficient"
I'm a life-long musician.(BA in performance at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California), and I can say unequivocally that Celia is an intuitive, knowledgeable and efficient instructor. I highly recommend her services and hope you find her as awesome as I do." Robin Saylor
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"Broad range of expertise"
Celia is a versatile, creative, and compassionate teacher who has worked with my daughter for more than four years. She has a broad range of experience and expertise in both the music world and pedagogy. Celia respects and guides her students goals and aspirations. The results of her teaching are both admirable and effective. I have myself been Her student, and I would recommend no music and voice teacher as her equal. Jim Dunn
Your Voice Coach
Celia Miller's music career spans three decades of performing, songwriting, and teaching. She credits her pedagogy to the Speech Level Singing method in which she was certified by Master teachers from 2008-2014. With over 15 years of voice coaching, Celia teaches at her Holyoke studio and has taught Jazz/Contemporary Vocal at Greenfield Community College of Massachusetts as well as voice and piano at The Springfield Conservatory. Celia loves teaching music theory, reading, plays jazz, and bossa nova, folk, pop, R&B on guitar, and accompanies her students on piano. Celia’s decades long regional performing - solo and in bands - means she brings a wealth of experience to her work with performing artists. She teaches songwriting from her own background of song-crafting and publishing. Her biannual "Singers Cafe's" provide all her students with performance opportunities to hone their stagecraft and work with live bands.
Vocalist Shelby Hasu at Singers Café 2/24
Miss Lyric in center at Singers Café 2/24
Singer Arlo Gannon Singers Café 2/24
Celia w/ feature singer Amy Church
MORE testimonials
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"my confidence is through the roof."
"Although I've been a celebrated singer my whole life, I didn't truly understand how my voice worked. Celia, my tone, my control, and my flexibility have improved so much that I no longer worry about "the right key”. I can step out there and pull off just about anything, even when the entire song sits right on (what used to be) my break! As a result, my confidence is through the roof." Jenny Katz Brandoli
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"fantastic teacher"
"I think you're a fantastic teacher in all aspects. I first came to you about a year ago and I'm happy with how strong my voice feels, especially since I've been told before (by MDs) that the only way to achieve cord closure is surgically. When we part each time, I feel like singing everything, even street signs :)” Anastasia Kurdia
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"so fun"
"Everyone should take voice lessons with Celia! It is so fun and she is so good!!!! Thanks Celia so much for coming to CAVEMAN. It is a testament to your teaching!!" Sheena See, actress with No Theater (most recently in the acclaimed CAVEMAN production) and Wooster Group.
HOW IT WORKS
Sessions are in person or online, your choice. Start by registering, book one session, and then decide if you’d like to continue with either a fixed day and time (monthly tuition for weekly or biweekly) or book with Celia per project or as needed.
Have questions first? Need to reactivate your account? Want to register for the Free Your Performance Workshop?
Phone Celia at 413-210-6240 or email celia@celiasvoicestudio.com.
YOU THE SINGER
IT’S MUSCLE MEMORY How you use your instrument impacts the quality of your tone, how accurate your pitch is, how big your range is, and how well you can do runs, or even add style. Let’s figure out what stands between you and your best voice and get to work.
FINESSE RECORDING PROJECTS Celia assists recording artists on or off-site for recording projects for their best lead or backing/harmony vocal.
WORK ON YOUR SONGWRITING Mining her own publishing background Celia works with songwriters on their craft coaching their best lyric, melody, and instrumentation.
YOU THE PERFORMER
Practice in small groups with other artists (ArtHouse), perform in a rock-style biannual recital (Singers’ Cafe), or be featured in an elite show (Pipes).
YOU THE MUSICIAN
Celia teaches guitar, piano or ukulele so singers can accompany themselves. For beginners or lower intermediate.
Nomi w/ keyboardist Kemar Watson Singers Café 5/23
Amber The Singer Singers Café 12/22
Ellie Singers Café 5/22
Angel Singers Café 5/22
May Chan Singers Café 5/22
Leslie Leonard Singers Café 5/22
Singers
at work
Celia's Voice Studio has been raising funds for causes through our biannual Singer's Cafés since 2017. This is about getting behind the leadership of grassroots organizations. It's also about educating ourselves and putting our voices to work for our community and the world. Check out for whom we've had the honor of working.
The Ethnic Study Enlace de Familias
Flor de Cahillo Centro de Apoyo Mutuo
Solesvida/Villas de Sol. Proyecto Enlace del Caño de Martín Peña
Centro de Acción Urbana Comunitaria y Empreserial de Rio Piedras