brittney redler

singer, actor, teacher, researcher, mother

EDUCATION:

I earned my Ph.D. from New York University in Vocal Performance, with a research focus in vocal pedagogy, teaching efficacy, and voice science. I received a Master of Music Degree from NYU in Vocal Performance, a Bachelor of Music Degree from Ithaca College in Music Education and Vocal Performance. I also completed the Summer Vocology Institute at the National Center for Voice and Speech, and I have studied Improv and Sketch-Writing at Upright Citizens' Brigade.

CAREER:

I have spent ten years as a choral conductor, classroom music teacher, and music director in Brooklyn, Connecticut, and South Carolina; as well as three years working with an after-school choir program of students grades 4-12 in the Bronx. I also served as adjunct voice faculty at NYU Steinhardt, teaching voice majors as well as a graduate pedagogy course on interdisciplinary voice care with the NYU Medical School.

As a soprano, my performance history spans operatic, concert, musical theater, and contemporary commercial styles. Over the past fifteen years, my relationship with the performance world has centered on collaborating on the development and premiering of new works in musical theatre and opera, especially those pieces that push and blend boundaries of style.

My private voice studio includes opera professionals, performers on- and off-Broadway, singer-songwriters, developing voices, amateur adults, and singers in recovery from injuries and surgery. I have presented on functional voice science for music educators, mindfulness in the choral classroom, strategies for working with pitch inaccuracy and “tone deafness,” composing mindfully for the voice, and coping with anxiety as a musician.

LIFE:

I enjoy running, hiking, singing, gardening, yoga, baking, and generally hanging with my family.

from students:

“If you want to learn to sing, or as I did, connect your voice to your daily life, Brittney is your golden ticket. She listens with impeccable attention (even online) and has an ear that can hear the song inside you and encourage it to come forth and shine. I started voice lessons wanting to embody my voice…to sing. Brittney was recommended by an opera composer as the best - and she has more than lived up to that praise. 'We use our voices to grieve, to celebrate, and to connect. This makes life more understandable.' Brittney said these words to me after years of voice study when I had realized your voice is much more than only a thing to sing with. She is guided, and I’d like to say, gave me that realization - but I know, as she taught me, it is me that gives my voice to me."

Tom, NY

Dissertation

Pedagogical Efficacy in the Singing Voice Studio: Working with Self-Assessed "Tone Deafness"

I studied the effects of various teaching methods among students who self-assessed as pitch inaccurate. Participants were randomly grouped to receive different media of feedback: visual/kinesthetic, auditory, and sensory/proprioceptive. These were compared against a neutral lesson group and a control group receiving no lessons.

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