CONSERVATORY of MUSIC

eLIZABETH RAYCROFT

PRIVATE LESSONS | VOICE

I believe in providing students with a solid singing technique that can be applied to all genres of music. I work with each student, identifying their learning needs and help them choose repertoire that highlights the best qualities of their voice. I try to provide and inform students about performing experiences that would help them to become better communicators. I believe that all singers should understand and be able to read the language of music.

About

Elizabeth Raycroft, soprano, trained in Edmonton, Houston and in Vienna. She has performed with Edmonton Opera and many local symphony orchestras. She has worked with world renowned conductors and directors. She shares her experience and knowledge in masterclasses, workshops and through adjudicating festivals throughout the province.

Her students consistently excel at local, provincial and national festivals. Many of her students have won the Northern Alberta Concerto Competition, performing with the Edmonton Youth Orchestra in the Winspear Centre. Her students perform in local, provincial and national musical theatre productions, with the Edmonton Opera, and in international opera houses.

She maintains an active and full studio at MacEwan’s Alberta College Conservatory of Music and is also on the faculty of The King's University College where she teaches voice, diction and vocal pedagogy.

Lessons

Elizabeth offers private voice lessons online and in-person at her private studio in the Ritchie area. She teaches ages 10+ from beginner to advanced levels for classical and musical theatre. If you are an adult interested in taking singing lessons for the first time, Elizabeth will provide you with a solid foundation.

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Education

Bachelor of Music, University of Alberta
Master of Music, University of Houston
Oratorio and Art Song studies, Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Vienna

Performances / compositions / recordings

For three years, Elizabeth performed the role of Mother with “edmonton coOPERAtive’ during their Christmas performances of Amahl and the Night Visitors.
In 2014, Ms. Raycroft performed in the Edmonton Fringe megahit “Propylene Glycol, Maltodextrin, Retinol Palmitate and Other Words I don't Understand Like Love”, which also toured throughout Alberta in June and July 2015.
She is an avid performer of new music and recently performed the World Premiere of “Four Songs, Op.15” by Joseph Lai.
Signora Naccarelli in "The Light in the Piazza", Walterdale Theatre, 2019.

Professional associations and memberships

RMT - Registered Music Teacher (ARMTA)
NATS - National Association of Teachers of Singing

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Elizabeth Raycroft is a very experienced voice instructor, who can accommodate your repertoire of interest that may range from different genres of western music to non-western music, even though her field of expertise is the Western classical music (opera).

Kioumars, Voice Student

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