From Vocal Technique to Center Stage

Getting more call backs and roles is you want, but you feel stuck and not progressing…

Liz Hodge Voice Studio is a one-of-a-kind teaching studio. I specialize in working with students from the age of 10 who are interested in all styles of musical theatre, classical, and contemporary commercial music. I have been teaching vocal technique, audition and performance techniques, song choice, storytelling, and a unique way to learn songs to get the call backs and roles that you want.

I’ve guided many students to audition and successfully be admitted to the colleges and programs of their choice and win callbacks and roles!

I’ve been teaching vocal technique and delivery to singers and actors for over 30 years. I’ve been performing even longer than that!  I help singers and actors transform their voices by using the same vocal techniques that professional singers and actors use to get the most out of their voices, all while staying healthy.

Over time, I’ve developed a system that I call “The Four Pillars”. These pillars are the foundation that supports that artistic choices that the singer wants to make. This gives the singer confidence and allows them to be “in the moment” emotionally.

Your voice has changed or is changing. You want and need to claim or reclaim it… Now is your time!

I also especially love working with women who want to rediscover their authentic voices as they move through the physical and emotional changes of perimenopause through post-menopause. I love working with people in the LGBTQ+ community who are discovering their gender affirming voices.

With a deep love for music and theatre, I have three main goals:

1. To help each of my students find their voice and their voice find them. Time is dedicated to vocal training and finding songs appropriate to their abilities. 

2. To help teach each student how to perform in the most positive way possible, which includes technique and storytelling.

3. Training and encouraging actors to make sustainable choices about how they spend their time professionally.

Whether my clients are just starting to discover their voices, or if they are pros with the goal of polishing their performances, together, we’ll do the inner and outer physical work to develop vocal technique, song delivery, acting and audition prep, and personal development as singers and musicians.

About 3/4 of my students come to me seeking more confidence in their voices, as well as confidence in general. As well as vocal techniques, we use mental/emotional exercises to help my students and clients overcome limiting beliefs, fear and negative self talk about their voices or singing or acting in public.

Together, we work on physical techniques such as breathing, vowel production and resonance that are based on vocal science, as well as my many years of accumulated knowledge. For mental/emotional growth and confidence building, I use centering techniques to help musicians and other performing artists break through the thought processes that would otherwise hold them back from performing at their consistent best. The exercises that we work on today will help you to turn off that inner critic (and all of its negative talk that chats up the left brain), and we will move you into your creative and quiet right brain.

You’ll learn all of this and more in a fun and relaxed environment by a highly qualified teacher.  I hold a Masters Degree in Vocal Performance and an Acting Certificate from the American Conservatory Theatre, as well as training in Acoustic Vocal Pedagogy and Contemporary Commercial Music.

Liz has had a long association with award winning children’s musical theatre programs such as Children’s Musical Theater San Jose and Starting Arts in San Jose, CA. Their voice studio is one that focuses on students that want to start or continue working on musical theatre. The mental skills of songs are key in performing with confidence and correctly learning new material.