MEET OUR PRIVATE VOICE TEACHERS & COACHES
Please contact our voice teachers at the email addresses listed below.
YCT student rates for lessons and coachings are $40 for a half hour and $75 for a full hour.
YCT student rates for lessons and coachings are $40 for a half hour and $75 for a full hour.
RYAN DE RYKEVOICE
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ALICIA BERNECHEVOICE
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VALERIE MAZEPERFORMANCE/OPERA/MUSICAL THEATRE COACHING |
Ryan de Ryke is a young artist whose versatility and unique musical presence have made him increasingly in demand on both sides of the Atlantic. He has performed at many of the leading international music festivals including the Aldeburgh Festival in the UK and the festival at Aix-en-Provence in France. Apart from his exciting recital career, Ryan appears regularly as a soloist in much Oratorio work including Handel’s Messiah, the Passions by Bach and Schütz, Bach’s Weinachts-Oratorio, B-minor Mass, Magnificat and solo cantata “Ich habe genug”. He has worked with many early music ensembles including the Orchestra of the 17th Century, the Baltimore Handel Choir, the Bach Sinfonia, the Ciciliana Quartet, the Apollo Chorus of Chicago and the American Opera Theater. Ryan’s operatic roles include the title roles in Monteverdi’s l’Orfeo, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Blow’s Venus and Adonis, and Giove in Cavalli’s La Calisto. He has also performed the role of Nardo in Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera with the Bay Area Summer Opera in San Francisco, and the role of Oberon in Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Ryan is equally at home in Romantic and Contemporary repertoire, regularly performing works like Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death, Vaughan William’s Five Mystical Songs, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, and Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light. He has also given performances of Dallapicola’s Rencesvals with Neil Sissons, director of the Dallapiccola Ensemble in London. Ryan made his Weill Recital Hall debut as a finalist with the New York Oratorio Society, and later returned to the Zankel hall as a finalist in the Marilyn Horne masterclass competition.
Ryan has studied at the Peabody Conservatory with John Shirley-Quirk, the RAM with Ian Partridge, and the National Conservatory of Luxembourg with Georges Backes. He is also an Alumnus of the Britten-Pears Institute in the UK and the Schubert Institute in Austria, where he worked with great artists of the song world such as Elly Ameling, Wolfgang Holzmair, Julius Drake, and Rudolf Jansen, and Helmut Deutsch. Ryan feels fortunate to collaborate regularly with artists and friends including Daniel Schlosberg, Eva Menglekoch, Michael Shepard, and Roger Vignoles.
Alicia Berneche has taken a career of performing in opera and musical theatre internationally for over 30 years and distilled it into a concise, functional method for the teaching of the whole singer. Certified in Somatic Voicework™ The LoVetri Method for Contemporary Commercial Music technique and a classical technique that can be traced back to Ricci, she has forged a studio of professional musical theatre and opera singers that work steadily in Chicago and internationally. A full-time voice instructor for Glenbrook North High School in Northbrook, IL, Ms. Berneche understands the needs of the young, developing voice, and tailors her teaching to the voice in front of her. She has also taught students well into their 70’s and has learned the intricacies of the mature voice. Ms. Berneche teaches all styles of music.
Valerie Maze is a music director, conductor, pianist, vocal coach and educator. Valerie hails from Chicago and has had the opportunity to play in theatres and opera houses across the country, including theatres such as Drury Lane Theatre (White Christmas and Forever Plaid), Goodman Theatre (Jeff Award winning show Brigadoon), Chicago Shakespeare Theater (Jeff Award winning shows Follies and Gypsy), Theatre at the Center (“After Dark” Award for Cats), Writers Theatre (A Little Night Music, Jeff nomination for Music Direction), Marriott Theatre, Music Theater Works, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Peninsula Players. At Lyric Opera of Chicago, in addition to serving as Assistant Conductor and Dance Pianist for numerous operas over the past 15 years, Valerie has served as Assistant Conductor for Lyric’s Music Theatre Initiative on My Fair Lady, The King and I, Carousel, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma! and Showboat. Active as a recitalist, she has had the opportunity to perform on WFMT as part of the Dame Myra Hess Series and on WGN TV, playing for artists such as Kate Baldwin, Paolo Montalban, Billy Zane, and Steven Pasqual.
She is a proud alum of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music and Anderson University. Valerie believes in arts education as fundamental, and has worked at Elon University, Northwestern University, DePaul University, Loyola University and Youthquake Company in Traverse City Michigan). She is an active member of the Chicago Federation of Musicians, is a Director on the board for the Chicago Chapter of the Theatre Music Association, and is a Board member for UpBeat Music and Arts in Chicago.
Ryan is equally at home in Romantic and Contemporary repertoire, regularly performing works like Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death, Vaughan William’s Five Mystical Songs, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, and Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light. He has also given performances of Dallapicola’s Rencesvals with Neil Sissons, director of the Dallapiccola Ensemble in London. Ryan made his Weill Recital Hall debut as a finalist with the New York Oratorio Society, and later returned to the Zankel hall as a finalist in the Marilyn Horne masterclass competition.
Ryan has studied at the Peabody Conservatory with John Shirley-Quirk, the RAM with Ian Partridge, and the National Conservatory of Luxembourg with Georges Backes. He is also an Alumnus of the Britten-Pears Institute in the UK and the Schubert Institute in Austria, where he worked with great artists of the song world such as Elly Ameling, Wolfgang Holzmair, Julius Drake, and Rudolf Jansen, and Helmut Deutsch. Ryan feels fortunate to collaborate regularly with artists and friends including Daniel Schlosberg, Eva Menglekoch, Michael Shepard, and Roger Vignoles.
Alicia Berneche has taken a career of performing in opera and musical theatre internationally for over 30 years and distilled it into a concise, functional method for the teaching of the whole singer. Certified in Somatic Voicework™ The LoVetri Method for Contemporary Commercial Music technique and a classical technique that can be traced back to Ricci, she has forged a studio of professional musical theatre and opera singers that work steadily in Chicago and internationally. A full-time voice instructor for Glenbrook North High School in Northbrook, IL, Ms. Berneche understands the needs of the young, developing voice, and tailors her teaching to the voice in front of her. She has also taught students well into their 70’s and has learned the intricacies of the mature voice. Ms. Berneche teaches all styles of music.
Valerie Maze is a music director, conductor, pianist, vocal coach and educator. Valerie hails from Chicago and has had the opportunity to play in theatres and opera houses across the country, including theatres such as Drury Lane Theatre (White Christmas and Forever Plaid), Goodman Theatre (Jeff Award winning show Brigadoon), Chicago Shakespeare Theater (Jeff Award winning shows Follies and Gypsy), Theatre at the Center (“After Dark” Award for Cats), Writers Theatre (A Little Night Music, Jeff nomination for Music Direction), Marriott Theatre, Music Theater Works, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Peninsula Players. At Lyric Opera of Chicago, in addition to serving as Assistant Conductor and Dance Pianist for numerous operas over the past 15 years, Valerie has served as Assistant Conductor for Lyric’s Music Theatre Initiative on My Fair Lady, The King and I, Carousel, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma! and Showboat. Active as a recitalist, she has had the opportunity to perform on WFMT as part of the Dame Myra Hess Series and on WGN TV, playing for artists such as Kate Baldwin, Paolo Montalban, Billy Zane, and Steven Pasqual.
She is a proud alum of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music and Anderson University. Valerie believes in arts education as fundamental, and has worked at Elon University, Northwestern University, DePaul University, Loyola University and Youthquake Company in Traverse City Michigan). She is an active member of the Chicago Federation of Musicians, is a Director on the board for the Chicago Chapter of the Theatre Music Association, and is a Board member for UpBeat Music and Arts in Chicago.