Sigal Chameides

It is my belief that the key to teaching is listening. Each student has personal needs to be answered and challenges to be helped face. My main job as a teacher and an educator is not that to impose a sound to my students, but to help them find their own voice, their own sound. To do that, I teach them to listen. Not to me, but to themselves. This aspect is especially critical when it comes to teenagers. Adolescents students can be demanding, but through them I fell in love with my job. Through the years I see my students growing, developing, understanding who they are and who they want to be.

Singing allows them to understand themselves, to express themselves, to build self confidence during these crucial years. Anyone can sing, and even more than that: everyone should be allowed to have the chance to sing. My job is that to give that chance to as many people as possible.   

An important part in my teaching is played by my work on stage fright. Music Performance Anxiety is a very frequent problem among musicians of all age, and singers are no exception. My method is designed to help my student face this issue. The techniques I developed are based on a wide range study I wrote for my Master Degree in Cognitive Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.