OUR STORY.
2006. Vocal Intensive Studios was founded in New York City by founder/owner and voice teacher Pilar Morgan. It started as an “intensive” workshop (hence our name) teaching belting and singing in contemporary music. The workshop included private voice lessons, studio classes and performances. It was designed for the young professional and beginning singer in contemporary vocals, rock, pop and musical theatre.
2008. The birth of Denver Vocal Intensive Studios, with the same principle but now based on weekly lessons, monthly group/studio classes
2018. The opening of our boutique Hudson Valley, NYC and online studios.
Today. VIS continues to grow with a thriving community of singer-performers and voice creatives!
PILAR MORGAN. Founder and Owner of Vocal Intensive Studios and principal Voice Teacher. Pilar relishes her role as a teacher, developing the voice and discovering new talent working with teens and adult students. Pilar personalizes her teaching to enhance and develop students’ natural voices and abilities. She specializes in functional, evidence-based vocal training with an emphasis on contemporary and commercial pedagogy. She concentrates on a holistic approach to vocal training, by also including awareness and attention to the mindset and emotions of the student.
In 2006, Pilar created the Vocal Intensive workshop in New York City, and in 2008, she opened another studio in Denver and in 2019 opened Vocal Intensive Studios in the Hudson Valley.
Pilar teaches vocal workshops for the yoga and fitness industry including Willpower and Grace to help group fitness teachers learn to project and protect the voice. She has also worked with the LGBTQ community with transgender voice change and development. She has worked with various schools throughout the Hudson Valley as a vocal education specialist for school musicals. Pilar was also voice consultant for the Skyelab recording studio in Manhattan, and continues to work with producers and studios throughout Colorado and New York.
She has performed with Nashville Opera, Augusta Opera, Nevada Opera, Shreveport Opera, Seagle Music Colony, and the Dicapo Opera companies. Her credits include Pitti-Sing in The Mikado, Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, Guinevere in Camelot, Princess Fred in Once Upon a Mattress, Maria in The Sound of Music, the Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods, Frumah Sarah in Fiddler on the Roof, Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel, Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus, and Silver Dollar in the Ballad of Baby Doe, Jenny in The Threepenny Opera and Dulcinea in the Man of La Mancha, Fosca in Passion, as well as numerous performances of Side by Side Sondheim. Pilar originated the role of Emily in Surrender Road written by Grammy award-winning songwriter, Marcus Hummon with the Nashville Opera Company. She can be seen in the PBS documentary, Boxing with the Bard the Making of Surrender Road.
Pilar is a member of NATS-National Association of Teachers of Singing and the Speakeasy Cooperative. She currently serves as the Director of Vocal Education at Star2B Performing Arts. She is a certified voice teacher in evidence based vocal pedagogy. Pilar is a graduate of Manhattan School of Music and has her Professional Certificate in Vocal Pedagogy from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.
