Ms. Brighty has been teaching voice for nearly thirty years. For many years she could be found in Miami and then in Austria. She currently finds her home in Wisconsin.

Her students can be found on opera stages all across the United States, on and off Broadway, in national and international tours, on TV, and in movies. They can also be found in courtrooms, hospital and surgical rooms, as university professors, public school teachers, doulas, and stay-at-home moms.

In 2005 Ms. Brighty co-founded Lied Austria International, with her late husband Wolfgang Lockemann. LAI was the premiere summer program for Lieder study and ran for many seasons. It took place twice each summer for four weeks in Southern Austria. She was Managing Director and Voice Teacher for LAI for its entirety, while continuing to maintain her full voice studio in Miami.

In more recent years, while living in Austria full time, on top of her teaching schedule, she was called to more alternative, holistic methods. Ms. Brighty has completed trainings and certifications in many holistic healing modalities. These include: a 10-month Spirit Healing (Geistheilung) certification course, which included meditation and breathwork among its many components, and several courses as a Life Coach. She participated in a five year training program in Acupressure, which included certifications of completion. She has taken part in hundreds of hours of online trainings, workshops, and webinars in Herbalism, and is currently working on a year-long course with certification.

These holistic approaches have become part of her life’s work, and she is deeply committed to sharing this beneficial wealth of this information.

In alignment with this mission, you can watch for information on her (*Coming Soon*) blog entitled The Singer’s Support, which she is most excited about!

Barbara González-Palmer enjoys an international performing career. Holding degrees from Oberlin and Juilliard, she has performed in concert with Barry Tuckwell, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Peter Damm, Richard Zeller, Michael Tree, and varied artists associated with the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, and Stuttgart Opera, to name a few. She has appeared in venues such as Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, International Horn Conference, and the International Congress of Voice Teachers, as well as broadcasts on New York’s premiere classical music station, WQXR. Internationally, she has collaborated with instrumentalists and singers in concert series and competitions in England, France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Belgium, Hungary, Ecuador, Korea, China and Malaysia. Her master class accompaniment credits include Frederica von Stade, Jean Pierre Rampal, Grace Bumbry, James Galway, and Martina Arroyo, among others. Many summers have been spent in Austria as a vocal coach and collaborative piano instructor for the American Institute of Musical Studies and Lied Austria International. Past faculty posts include Northwestern University, University of Oregon, and the Music Academy of the West. During her 16-year directorship of Rutgers’ Collaborative Piano Program, the program received a special commendation from the National Association of Schools of Music for its quality and success. A number of her students have gone on to successful careers in voice and collaborative piano, including posts and performances at such institutions as Yale, Harvard, the Silk Road Ensemble, and the Metropolitan Opera. Ms. Gonzalez-Palmer can be heard on several commercial recordings, including the Centaur and Naxos labels. She is an Associate Professor at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts where she serves on the keyboard and voice faculties with specialties in collaborative piano, vocal coaching and chamber music.

Argentinean-American Steven Aguiló-Arbues enjoys an active career as a conductor, chorus master, vocal coach, and recitalist. He currently serves as Artistic Director and Conductor for Opera Fort Collins as well as Conductor for the Crested Butte Music Festival. Recent positions include Conductor of Boulder Opera Company, Conductor of the Renaissance Project Choir and Program Music Director of Studio Artists at Sarasota Opera.

His love for opera has led him to work on over 70 productions with Opera Colorado, Atlanta Opera, Central City Opera, Sarasota Opera, San Diego Opera, Opera Fort Collins, Boulder Opera Company, Festival Amadeus (Montana), the Miami Music Festival, and Centro Studi Lirica (Italy).

He has coached singers who have gone on to win the National Grand Finals of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions as well as sing at opera companies around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro alla Scala, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opéra national de Paris, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Zürich Opernhaus, Deutsche Oper Berlin, among others.

Maestro Aguiló-Arbues has frequently collaborated in masterclasses and studio coachings with renowned artists including Renata Scotto, Marylin Horne, Thomas Hampson, Nico Castel, Marni Nixon, Martin Katz, Samuel Ramey, Ubaldo Fabbri, Robert Cowart, Brian Zeger, and members of the Takács String Quartet, among others.

He has also worked at academic institutions including the Manhattan School of Music, Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and the University of Colorado in Boulder.  He earned his Professional Studies Certificate and Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City.  He currently resides in Colorado with his wife and daughter.

Clay Schaub is an Alexander Technique Teacher and jazz bassist in Milwaukee. He works with all types of people, frequently with musicians, actors, dancers, and people with chronic pain. Clay first came to the technique in 2002, in an effort to address carpal tunnel syndrome and music-performance related injuries. After years of private study, he trained as an Alexander Technique teacher under the direction of John Nicholls and Nanette Walsh at ATNYC in Manhattan, completing a 3-year 1600 hour AmSAT Certification Program in June of 2012. In addition to running a private practice, he has worked as an assistant trainer of Alexander teachers for more than 10 years, on several different courses–ATNYC, ATMKE, and ATTiC, and has been a guest presenter at conservatories and colleges throughout the Midwest. To find out more about Clay please see  clayschaub.com