the voice cathedral
The Voice Cathedral is world class voice training, a singing method developed and used by Carrie.
The work is a full bodied holistic approach to mastery of the voice, using both vocal technique and understanding of the heart. Training is done both in person and online.
At the root of Carrie’s work with singers is coaching, training and development. Carrie is also a vocal producer and creative advisor.
WHAT IS THE VOICE CATHEDRAL?
WHO THIS IS FOR :
Dedicated singers either currently working professionals, or those that are just about to enter into the industry.
Those who are committed to authenticity and truth, with the aim to use their God given instrument with purity, power and impact in a professional and high-level setting.
Those who want to master their technique and heart and use them both well.
Those who want to feel free in their body and spirit with full freedom of expression, presence and full bodied understanding of their instrument.
TESTIMONIALS
"Shortly after I started my mentorship with Carrie I was recording my next single with my producer, who has known my voice inside and out for around 6 years. She kept saying,
'What is this new placement? It's so warm and so beautiful! Your belt sound so healthy and clear! Those high notes are butter up there!'
Not only did Carrie help me find my resonators in a way that sounds distinctively like 'me, this newfound ease freed me up to explore the joy and the emotion even more, which Carrie never neglects in her teaching. Technique is only technique until you use it in service of the music, and Carrie helps make that connection exactly when she knows you're ready. It's a completely wholistic approach with such noticeable results."
- Malinda Kathleen Reese
Winner of 2020 Helen Hayes Award for Girl in 'Once', Singer Songwriter, Youtube Influencer
As a singing teacher with over 30 years of experience, I can easily say that Carrie is one of the most extraordinary singers I know. If you've been lucky enough to experience Carrie's work in performance, you know that her tonal beauty, power, and style are world-class. Online many other singers of her level, she is also a teacher who is able to guide you through a vocal development process to find your own signature sound. Carrie will give you the exercises, encouragement, and artistic framework that you need to know who you are as a singer.
- Andrew Byrne
Broadway Singing Teacher and author of the #1 Best-Seller The Singing Athlete : Brain Based Training for Your Voice
Not only does she soothe the heart, but technically she is like a magician of sound…She makes you feel as if you are discovering these truths about the voice (and life through the lens of the voice) together. It is truly a special experience. You feel you are discovering something brand new during each lesson when, in fact, it is not new to her at all. She has been successfully teaching these concepts for years. But with the enthusiasm and genuine awe Carrie has for the voice, you would think it was her first time sharing this invaluable information.
My growth emotionally throughout my mentorship was more than I could have asked for, but my technical understanding of the voice has never been stronger. I was able to achieve the tone that I have been trying for for many years within the first week of working with Carrie.
Overall, my experience taking these lessons has led to the expansion of my awareness. I listen to music in a deeper way now. I am conscious of my instrument- my voice- in a way I have never experienced before. My breath, posture, tone when I speak and overall demeanor has shifted for the better. When you train the voice with Carrie, you train the whole being: mind, body, spirit.I could not recommend working with Carrie Manolakos enough.
Cassie Kirchmeier
Artist Development
I started The Voice Cathedral to guide the singers out there to understand the joy, the responsibility and challenges of having your instrument live inside of your body; feeling everything you feel and going everywhere you go. While there are many types of musicians in the world, there is none like the singer. I never had anything like this while I was learning, and looking back, it forced me to find much of it on my own. And so, The Voice Cathedral was created.
After training my entire life in every style of singing, I took what was useful and released what was not, experimented with my own sound and found a frequency that is me at my highest level. A voice that is an extension of your feelings, power, light, vulnerability, and experience in which you can do what you want, when you want, is somewhat of a superpower, whether you choose to share it or not. And it is the spiritual component and the mystery in this instrument that is the underlying force of why I do this.
I have committed my whole life to studying the voice and spirit and their relationship to one another. I have also committed my whole life to studying life itself.
It has become clear how important it is for me to share what I know. You can have all the techniques in the world, but if you cannot understand how to channel emotion, or are too afraid to be with all parts of you, then you have missed the sweetest lesson.
Technique is tremendously important. It comes first. You cannot move on until you understand the discipline of working in that way. That powerful sound you hear in my voice is not simply technique. It is vulnerability, it is life lived, it is courage, it is struggle, it is joy, it is play, it is every emotion I have ever felt and it is wrestling with and wanting to know God.
Not only will you be a better singer when you come out of this, you will be more connected spiritually. And creating a space for the spirit, a space for courageous and willing humans to know thyself, whether I am onstage myself or simply passing this along, it is this that has always been and will always be my guiding reason.
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