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Renee Grant Williams, My Voice Coach



       Renee's clientele includes the Dixie Chicks, Faith Hill, Linda Ronstadt, Christina Aguilera, Randy Travis, Tim McGraw, Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana), Kix Brooks, Jessica Andrews, Huey Lewis, Keith Urban, Martina McBride, Bryan White, Rachael Lampa, Kenny Chesney and more. She’s also worked with attorneys, public speakers and politicians, including U.S. Senator Trent Lott.

       She’s been a consultant to nearly every major record label and recording studio in Nashville. Her satisfaction comes from hearing the difference she’s made in so many artists’ careers.

       Whole careers are built around two little muscles in a person’s throat. The success of an entire entertainment empire can depend on how well these muscles work and Grant-Williams makes sure they operate at peak performance. Like a piano tuner, she knows how to make the vocal instrument sound its best.

       “When I hear my students implement what I have taught them, it’s wonderful,” she exclaims. “It’s like performing at long distance, or playing a very large instrument, because I can really hear the results of my involvement. The tools I give these people allow them to develop their own individual style. I’m not the end, but I’m the means to an end.” 

       She makes a vital contribution, not only to the vocal quality of the record, but also to the protection of the person driving the sound. Like an insurance policy, she’s there to protect against future wear and tear.

       "Some artists play 200 to 300 dates a year," Grant-Williams says. "They are like athletes running a race. Singers need training and they need the right tools in order to keep up with the demands placed on them physically and vocally."

       Grant-Williams is able to share her techniques on a broader scale through a network of specially-trained Associate Teachers, her Vocal Master Class on DVD, and a book for the speaking voice titled Voice Power: Using Your Voice to Captivate, Persuade, and Command Attention,  published by AMACOM Books, NY, and endorsed by Paul Harvey.

RENEE GRANT-WILLIAMS

POSITIONS HELD

Director, Division of Vocal Music
University of California, Berkeley

Director/Conductor
San Francisco Community Chorus/Chamber Chorus

Music Director
Actor's Studio, New York

Chorus Master, Opera Division
Banff School of Fine Arts, Alberta, Canada

Co-Founder/Performer
KOTEKAN: A New Music Chamber and Percussion Ensemble
San Francisco, California

Voice Faculty
San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Director/Conductor, Conducting Programs
Berkeley Music Camp, Cazadero, California

Music Director/Conductor
Opera On The Sound, New York

Artist-in-Residence
San Mateo Chamber Music Society, California

Assistant Director/Conductor
ASUC Vocal Music Department
University of California, Berkeley

Music Director/Performer
Standing Room Only!, Musical Theatre Revue
San Francisco, California

Director/Conductor
San Francisco California Saxophone Quartet, California

Director of Music
Second Presbyterian Church, Nashville

Chorus Master/Voice Coach
Tennessee Repertory Theatre, Nashville

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Music
San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Carnegie-Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Music Academy of the West
Santa Barbara, California

American Institute of Musical Studies
Graz, Austria

Conducting and Opera Divisions
Banff School of Fine Arts, Alberta, Canada

Applied Vocal, Instrumental and Conducting Training

Voice and Coaching

Martial Singher, Ethel Evans, Edna Garabedian
Robert Leonard, Alden Gilchrist, Leopold Simoneau,
Kammersangerin Boesch, David Lutz and others

Conducting

Joseph Liebling, Milton Williams, Walter Goldschmidt

Instruments

Keyboards, Flute, Electric Bass

Languages

German, French, Italian, Spanish

Supplemental

Latin, Danish, Hebrew, Slavonic

Dance

Xoregos Studio - San Francisco
Morelli School of Dance - New York
Margaret Jenkins Studio - San Francisco

Acting

Jim DeBlaises - Cincinnati, Ohio
Actor’s Playhouse - New York
Edgar Weinstock - San Francisco

Awards

W.M. Sullivan Foundation Award
R.B.T. Von Feldringen Foundation Award
Crestview Foundation Award
Full Scholarship, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Porter Wagoner Award of Excellence

Recordings

LeTestament de Villon, Ezra Pound
Fantasy Records, catalog no.12001

Brahms Duets for soprano and mezzo soprano
1750 Arch Records, catalog no. 1761
With mezzo-soprano, Dorothy Barnhouse

KOTEKAN: Percussion and . . .
Reference Records, catalog no. RR-3
Soprano and percussion

TV Specials

The Good Old Boys, TNT Movie
The Wild West, Warner Bros. Documentary

 

 

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