Key Takeaways:
– Breathing & Performing
– Interpretation of a Song
– Understanding which songs are right for your voice

Veteran of the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at NYU’s Tisch School, Susan Collins has remained a highly in-demand voice coach for decades. At age 15 she was singing backup for Jimi Hendrix. Throughout her storied career she has worked with John Lennon, Joe Cocker, Electric Light Orchestra, KISS, and countless others. She even vocal coordinated the first five seasons of NBC’s Saturday Night Live. For this special, one day Masterclass, Collins is teaching students the absolute essentials to emotive vocal performance – how to breathe, how to perform, how to interpret a song, and how to understand which songs are right for your voice. As Collins says, “most singers come out swinging for the fences. They start at 100 and then have nowhere to go but down. The goal is to unwind that inclination and teach them the mechanics of subtlety.”