Voice Lessons
We are thrilled to offer private voice lessons during choir classes throughout the school day. Voice lessons are for all levels of student. From first year choir students to returning All-State Choir Members, everyone is encouraged to take voice lessons and improve their musical ability in one-on-one lessons with master voice teachers.
Each voice lesson will cost $25.00 for the 30 minute lesson. These lessons can happen once a week during your students class period depending on teacher availability. Sign up for voice lessons HERE!
Read below to find out more about our talented teachers!
Reza Azizi, Tenor
Reza Azizi is a classically trained tenor and choir director. After graduating from Plano Senior High School, he attended Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. While a member of the TCU Chorale, Mr. Azizi had the opportunity to sing at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops, as well as Bass Hall with the Fort Worth Symphony. He performed with the Fort Worth Opera for several seasons and also attended the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria for a summer voice program. Through this experience, he received invaluable knowledge of performing, musicality, vocal pedagogy, proper technique, as well as study of German Art Songs, Operetta, and German diction. He also recently performed with the Plano Civic Chorus.
After graduating with his Bachelor of Music Education, magna cum laude, Mr. Azizi taught choir for eleven years, predominantly in Plano ISD at Clark High School and Plano Senior High School. Under his choral and musical theatre direction, his choirs have consistently received sweepstakes awards at UIL Concert and Sight-Reading Contest, he has had several students in the Texas All-State Choir, and his musicals have received numerous Dallas Summer Musicals Theatre Award nominations.
Mr. Azizi is excited to join the Prosper Choir family and looks forward to sharing his love of classical/operatic singing, as well as musical theatre and vocal jazz with his voice students!
Natalie Merrill, Soprano
Ms. Merrell is an emerging operatic soprano and University of North Texas graduate passionate about helping students find their authentic voices. While at UNT, she studied with Dr. Lauren McNeese and performed the roles of Gheradino (Puccini's Gianni Schicchi) and the Owl (Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen.) Ms. Merrell made her east coast operatic debut as the first Witch in Dido and Aeneas with the Tidewater Opera Initiative in 2018. She returned to the company to cover the Dew Fairy in Humperdink's Hansel and Gretel the following year. She is excited to get back onstage again in the upcoming performance season.
Ms. Merrell's love for singing started long before she set foot onstage, but her dream of making it a career began right here in North Texas, competing for All-State Choir her freshman year. She chased that dream all the way to the finish line, and now she is thrilled to be helping young singers develop the same skills she used to succeed
Toni Richardson, Soprano
Toni Richardson is a singer and voice teacher based in DFW. She earned a dual Master of Music degree in Vocal Pedagogy and Vocal Performance from Belmont University in Nashville, TN. During her time at Belmont, she studied with specialists at the Vanderbilt Voice Center about vocal health, the pediatric voice, and contemporary commercial music techniques. Toni is passionate about healthy singing and cross training the voice in multiple genres—her favorites are classical and musical theatre!
Professionally, Toni is a lyric soprano and has performed in various opera productions. Some of her favorite roles include Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and Fairy Godmother in Viardot’s Cinderella.
Most importantly, Toni is thrilled to be teaching at Prosper ISD and can’t wait to help your students achieve all their singing goals!