Tom McKinney
Tom is the creator/Vocal Technique Instructor for the award winning “Sing With The Ease of Speech Technique", and a member of the National Association of Teacher’s of Singing (NATS). His teaching has expanded to multiple satellite studios with Associate Teachers in Dallas-Richardson, The Woodlands-Conroe, NYC, & Munich, Germany. Offering Online Lessons, Group Voice Classes, and Master Vocal Workshops, in addition to private coaching, his student roster has grown from Texas, across the U.S. and Europe!
Tom was a National Metropolitan Opera Soloist Winner in 1971, which launched his operatic career as a principal baritone with the Metropolitan Opera for one season, in NYC, and a 7 year European career centered at Vienna’s Volksoper & Staatsoper, in Austria. Other performance credits include: National Tours, Las Vegas productions, regional theatre, numerous concerts in Europe, the Americas, Russia, and South Africa, film, and Special Guest appearances on Merv Griffin’s & Johnny Carson’s TV Late Shows. In Houston, Tom was the lead judge for four seasons of “Gimme The Mic” singing competition (KPRC-TV Channel 2).
Tom & his wife, Colleen, have been working together for 38 years together training singers and performers of all genres in vocal, performance and talent development. Nothing is more satisfying than to see our students become working professionals in the music industry.