Teaching Artist Statement

I believe that it is my job as a voice teacher to not only help you build skills as a vocalist, but to also help you love your own voice. Our voice is a deeply personal piece of our identity, and the way you feel about your voice directly informs how you sing. Singing should feel relaxed, efficient, creative, and joyful!

The building blocks of a good vocalist come from a balance between the technical, musical, and emotional. I incorporate the insight of evidence based vocal science into identifying individual vocal challenges and providing personalized instruction to help you meet your vocal goals. From my experience, students learn best through collaboration, curiosity, and developing the ability to evaluate and guide their own singing. Lessons will also help develop broader musicianship skills, including music literacy, critical listening skills, repertoire knowledge, and the language to better articulate musical ideas.

Voice lessons can include more than just learning how to sing- I work with composers and singer-songwriters looking to write for voice, singers experiencing nuanced vocal changes such as aging or hormone replacement therapy, individuals with intonation and pitch matching concerns, voice work in parallel with SLP’s for people managing vocal pathologies or speech therapy, and other voice teachers looking to introduce new techniques into their own teaching. I am always excited to find more fields that intersect with voice! 

Teaching Bio

Caitlin received her Bachelor of Music degree from the New England Conservatory and her Master of Music degree from Western Washington University, where her studies focused on opera and classical voice. She has worked with choirs and small group ensembles, directed gala and charity events, and has almost a decade of individual vocal instruction experience. Previous positions include music director for musical theater companies such as Broadway Bound and in schools such as Northeast Regional Vocational High School. She works with ages 10 and up, all experience levels, and a variety of genres including classical, musical theater, pop, jazz, folk, and more. She enjoys helping students of all backgrounds develop healthy technique, artistic confidence, and a lifelong appreciation for singing.

Performance Bio

Caitlin Nuckolls is an American soprano based in Seattle, Washington. She is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music where she studied classical voice and opera with dramatic soprano Jane Eaglen. She has sung nationwide, as well as in Europe, in places such as LA, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Italy, and Austria, both as a solo performer and in operatic choruses. Since moving to Seattle she has been performing with the Puget Sound Concert Opera and Engage Opera, being featured in many works including Hansel and Gretel, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Don Giovanni, and Manon.