VOICE

In IAMT’s Voice program, students build essential vocal technique through comprehensive training in breath support, resonance, diction, vocal placement, registration, and healthy belt, mix and legit singing—skills critical to professional musical theatre performance. The vocal instruction allows students to refine their vocal range, pitch accuracy, power, clarity, and dynamic expressivity, while ensuring sustainable vocal health and versatility. Classes focus on honing and applying healthy vocal technique to repertoire drawn from classic Broadway standards to contemporary musical theatre, guiding each student to discover and develop their authentic vocal identity.

At the beginning of each student's first year at IAMT, they will participate in a vocal evaluation session. This is an information-gathering session for both teacher and student. The teacher will warm up the student to see where their natural voice lies and assess their knowledge of vocal health and technique. The student is encouraged to ask any questions and share short-term and long-term vocal goals. This will help the teacher meet each student where they are and challenge them to grow throughout their time at IAMT.

During the academic year, there will be some classes solely dedicated to vocal technique utilized while singing in the varied styles asked of today's musical theater performer. There will also be classes where the students are asked to apply that vocal technique to songs they are learning and performing. Students are encouraged to bring in material at various stages of development. There will be some classes in which students are assigned a specific genre of song, which will help them to build their audition book, and other classes where the student brings whatever they may be working on at the moment, be it something for an upcoming performance, callback or audition. Students will sing for their classmates during these sessions and are encouraged to explore concepts learned during technique sessions to the songs they are singing. Classmates observing are learning alongside the ones singing. During these sessions, we often move beyond technical proficiency with IAMT’s approach to integrate singing with acting, teaching students to communicate character, emotion, and narrative intention, always with an eye on healthy vocal production.

Our students regularly participate in vocal classes, audition workshops, and masterclasses led by Broadway-experienced faculty, focusing on performance skills, stylistic versatility, and professional presentation. In addition, students have the opportunity to pursue paid individual sessions at a deeply discounted rate with our faculty.

Upon completion of the program, IAMT voice students possess the advanced technical foundation and interpretive ability necessary to thrive as performers in the highly competitive field of musical theatre.