Skokstudio delivers individual and group vocal instruction to emerging and professional singers, in-person at the Mentor studio location and virtually/online using Zoom. Master Instructor Heidi Skok has over 25 years of experience teaching privately, at colleges and artist programs. Heidi Skok is a gifted “diagnostician” and a solid and knowledgeable technician for ALL voice types and many diverse genres. She specializes in solving vocal difficulties, vocal transitions, and larger voices, and can build a solid chest voice belt for Broadway and pop. She has successfully helped many singers make Fach transitions. This was due to her own unique transitional experience to mezzo-soprano after having spent twenty years as a soprano, twelve of those years at the Metropolitan Opera. Skok has previously taught at the New School University on the Voice Faculty of the Actors Studio MFA Program, on the faculty of the New England Conservatory in Boston, Curtis Institute, the University of Kentucky, Bennington College in Vermont, the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY, and Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio. Skok is also currently head of the Voice faculty at Fairmount Center for the Arts. Her students have sung at such opera houses as the Metropolitan Opera, English National Opera, Deutsche Opera Berlin, Leipzig Opera, New York City Opera, Washington National Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival, Santa Fe Opera, Glyndebourne, and San Diego Opera. Her students sing on Broadway, at the Metropolitan Opera, and in recording studios.
