PRIVATE LESSONS
Becky Barrett-Jones
blbsings@yahoo.com
blbsings@yahoo.com
Becky Barrett-Jones has her Master’s Degree in Music Education from Wright State University and her Bachelor’s Degree from Capital University. She opened the Music in Me voice and piano studio in 2007 to help students reach their greatest potential in singing, playing the piano, and performing through a variety of styles of music. Lessons are targeted to fit each student and their preferences for style of music.
Becky has performed in numerous theatre shows across the country, praise and worship bands, and a contemporary Christian trio. She is a music director and teaches voice in the theatre department at Wright State University. She has also been a drum major and served as a church pianist. She was inducted into the Dayton Theatre Hall of Fame in 2019.
Her students have been on Broadway, National tours, American Idol, the Voice, and Songland.
Lessons are taught in her home studio in Centerville or, if preferred, over FaceTime or Zoom.
Becky has performed in numerous theatre shows across the country, praise and worship bands, and a contemporary Christian trio. She is a music director and teaches voice in the theatre department at Wright State University. She has also been a drum major and served as a church pianist. She was inducted into the Dayton Theatre Hall of Fame in 2019.
Her students have been on Broadway, National tours, American Idol, the Voice, and Songland.
Lessons are taught in her home studio in Centerville or, if preferred, over FaceTime or Zoom.
Carol Chatfield holds degrees in voice with honors from New England Conservatory (BM) and Boston Conservatory (MM). She has taught voice for over 30 years and has helped her students prepare for college auditions, competitions and for musical auditions. She has had students move on to professional opera careers and students who have won Broadway roles, or parts in Broadway touring companies. Currently, one of her former students is starring in “Come From Away” on Broadway.
Carol teaches voice lessons at CHS during some choir periods and lunches. Lesson signups are on a first-come/first-serve basis. Carol also teaches in her Kettering home during the after-school hours. In lessons, students work on breathing, tone placement, learning to produce pure vowel sounds that work for any language, in an effort to learn to sing in a healthy fashion that will not damage the voice. Carol believes any student who is doing a lot of singing benefits from lessons. Students then work on building a repertoire of all sorts of music and how to present that music in a professional manner. Carol also help students prepare for contest and with any in school auditions.
"I look forward to meeting and working with your child, while helping them improve their voice, along with maintaining vocal health."
Carol teaches voice lessons at CHS during some choir periods and lunches. Lesson signups are on a first-come/first-serve basis. Carol also teaches in her Kettering home during the after-school hours. In lessons, students work on breathing, tone placement, learning to produce pure vowel sounds that work for any language, in an effort to learn to sing in a healthy fashion that will not damage the voice. Carol believes any student who is doing a lot of singing benefits from lessons. Students then work on building a repertoire of all sorts of music and how to present that music in a professional manner. Carol also help students prepare for contest and with any in school auditions.
"I look forward to meeting and working with your child, while helping them improve their voice, along with maintaining vocal health."
Darin L. Jolliffe-Haas hails from Indiana. He has been a music educator, teaching private voice, piano, saxophone, music theory, acting, and student leadership in the Miami Valley since 1990. He has also directed 112 theatrical productions.
Trained classically, but with a strong performing, directing, and writing career in musical theatre, Darin’s students in the area high schools are generally main cast members, and since 1992, his students have consistently served as leads in Dayton’s Muse Machine.
Darin is a single adoptive dad of five grown sons, and currently lives in Kettering, Ohio with his dogs Chief, Erma Bombeck, Harrigan, Bailey, and Col. Deeds.
Trained classically, but with a strong performing, directing, and writing career in musical theatre, Darin’s students in the area high schools are generally main cast members, and since 1992, his students have consistently served as leads in Dayton’s Muse Machine.
Darin is a single adoptive dad of five grown sons, and currently lives in Kettering, Ohio with his dogs Chief, Erma Bombeck, Harrigan, Bailey, and Col. Deeds.