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HI!

I'm Heta, a singer and a voice teacher. I've been soaked in music since I was a little child, and since been performing in different music styles as a lead singer, backing vocalist, a choir and ensemble member, and as a flautist.

I've graduated as a Musician (JAO, Jyväskylä), a Music Pedagog (Metropolia AMK, Helsinki) with pop/jazz vocals and voice pedagogy as my main subject, as well as a Master in Music Education (Uniarts 2024). I’ve gathered several years of teaching experience working with different kinds of singers ranging from beginners to students aiming for professional studies, both privately and in music schools in Finland and in Germany.  From 2017 to 2018, I spent an exchange year in southern Germany, Freiburg, where I stayed two more years after my graduation enjoying the international atmospehre and starting my own voice teaching business.

I'm at your service with up-to-date knowledge of vocal technique and an enthusiastic approach to teaching!

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MY THOUGHTS ON TEACHING

I am convinced, that everyone can develop as a singer - as long as there is motivation and curiosity towards singing. With the right tools and guidance, it's possible for everyone, I mean everyone, to develop the things they want in their voices!

Teaching has been a natural way for me to broaden my musicality. I've struggled with my voice, and I do know the frustration of not knowing how to get forward, banging your head against the wall, and not getting the guidance you feel you need. But with great teachers (whom I'm so thankful for) I've gotten past many things that have slowed me down. With them I've learned to use my voice without it tiring fast, learned to widen my range in sounds and expression and also the view of myself in ways that enable me to work as a professional vocalist and a musician expressing myself with a joy I didn't know was even possible. That's why I teach. Because I know the struggle, and I know that it's possible to get forward.

I love to learn and teach the technique of singing, and my teaching is based on facts, in the understanding of our instrument's - the body's - physiology and anatomy. Studying technique is fulfilling for me, because I want to straighten the road from my thought to my voice, to eliminate restricting tensions and form vocal habits that I need to be able to express myself without getting tangled up in the technique.

In my lessons, however, I want to always keep present the reason WHY we are singing: of the joy and importance of expression, of the need to communicate, to share and to feel, to move us and people around us. To strengthen our self-knowledge, to break own boundaries, to relax, or just because singing just is so much fun!

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