My Story

If I was to start taking singing lessons from a teacher I would like to know something about this teacher's background... so, here I've written about how I came to be a singer and what path I've chosen and why. Hope it'll somehow be of use to the reader!

I've been playing music and singing quite a lot since I was a young girl but it was only when I decided to go and study at LA Music Academy, that I realised what it really meant to study music and singing with complete commitment. In LA I had a great chance to truly go in depth with vocal technique, sight singing, theory, ensembles, repertoire etc.

I thought that I had been studying well before that, but I was wrong!

In LA I was exposed to such professional teachers that I could do nothing but to be diciplined in a way that I had never been before... and it was so inspiring and motivating.

Most importantly I learned how to be an "investigator", to seek all the knowledge I could use and to be able to use it! I decided there and then that my mission was to get to know everything about vocal technique and teaching methods in a good combination of being a singer with my own projects.

This led me to apply for acceptance at The Rotterdam Conservatory of Music in Holland. I had heard about this conservatory and specifically wanted to study there due to the fact that it was possible to study vocal technique with an operasinger and still keep my main subject as a non-classical singer. Furthermore I was drawn to the wide variety of subjects available there, such as Brazilian music, Jazz, Pop, Indian music, Tango and most importantly: I would be able to study with people coming from all over the world!

I studied there for a period of 4 1/2 years and met my "music companion" Tzvetin Todorov there. We now form the duo-project called Omaya. Check www.g-rex.com for more info. We have a cd out May 2006.

Having moved back to Copenhagen I started studying Complete Vocal Technique at Complete Vocal Institute, with Cathrine Sadolin and other teachers there. I have been very critical about this technique but am now 100% convinced about how great it is and how good it works for so many singers. Not that I have left behind all of my knowledge from other teachers, this is not the case. I like to take the best from everything. However, in my teaching I primarily use the methods of "Complete".