Laura Enslin, founder and owner
Soprano Laura Enslin is a soloist, recitalist and teacher based in Central New York.
Soprano Laura Enslin is a sought-after teacher and performer in Syracuse, New York. Committed to nurturing singers of all ages, backgrounds and abilities, she is the founder of CNY Singing Garden, a private voice studio steeped in the art of self-expression and process of discovery. Laura’s holistic, mind-body approach to teaching draws on her rich background in bel canto singing, sound healing and therapy, and yoga. “Creativity is not an exclusive club,” says Laura, who teaches all styles and genres of singing. “Music can help us achieve our full potential, while making a difference in the lives of others.”
In the wake of the pandemic, Laura has sung the role of Mary in the world premiere of Charles Lupia’s chamber opera, Home Burial. She also performed with the Quarentet Percussion ensemble and members of Symphoria. Laura recently appeared in an arts education musical titled School Board for the New York State Board of Regents.
As a soloist, Laura has performed with Symphoria, the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, Springfield (Missouri) Symphony, Lake Placid Sinfonietta, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, Onondaga Civic Symphony, Oneida Area Civic Chorale, Sackets Harbor Vocal Arts Ensemble, Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music, Eastman Philharmonia, Syracuse University Oratorio Society and Syracuse University Brass Ensemble.
She has presented more than a dozen world premierescommissioned by the Society for New Music, Syracuse University (including a piece by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Robert Ward) and The Commission Project.
Laura’s solo repertoire includes music by Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Mahler and Villa-Lobos. Her operatic and stage roles include Nedda (I Pagliacci), Gretel (Hansel and Gretel), Adel (Die Fledermaus), Atalanta (Serse), Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro), Madame Herz (Der Schauspieldirektor), Norina (Don Pasquale), Marie (La Fille du Régiment), Laurette (Doctor Miracle), Cecile (Iolanthe), Mrs. Hayes (Susannah), Dorine (Tartuffe), and Guinevere (Camelot).
Laura has elicited praise like “superb and lovely” (Syracuse.com), a “perfect vessel of beautiful singing” (The Buffalo News), and a “plush, velvety voice and unfailing sensitivity” (Rochester’s Democrat and Chronicle).
In addition to teaching privately, Laura serves on the music faculty of Onondaga Community College. She previously spent 14 years at Syracuse University, teaching in the Musical Theater Program and then the Jazz and Commercial Music applied study track. She also has taught at Nazareth College and the Eastman School of Music.
Laura earned master’s and bachelor’s degrees in voice from the Eastman School and the University of Colorado Boulder, respectively. Her teachers include Mary Saunders Barton, Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet, Carolyn Webber, Shirlee Emmons and Barbara Doscher. Laura is a certified yoga instructor with additional training in Music for People, Music Together, sound healing and sound therapy.
Matthew Green, Director of Dewitt Studio
An experienced singer and stage actor, Matthew F. Green is a fixture in the Central New York scene.
Tenor Matthew Green brings more than two decades of teaching and performing experience to the Front Row Players and One Voice Community Ensemble.
For the past 22 years, he has taught privately throughout Central and Upstate New York, working with singers of all ages and abilities. Matthew is a faculty member of Singing Garden, offering private voice lessons, workshops and small-group classes through DeWitt Community Church (DCC), where he is a choir section leader. A New York State-certified respiratory therapist, he specializes in asthma and breathing problems.
Outside the studio, Matthew is a 19-year veteran of the Syracuse Opera Chorus, where his silvery tone has graced dozens of operatic and musical theater productions. He also has performed with the Tri-Cities Opera Company in Binghamton, the Cortland Repertory Theatre, the Savoyards Music Theatre Ltd. (formerly Cornell Savoyards), the Central New York Playhouse in DeWitt and the Chenango Community Players in Norwich.
In addition to being a sought-after soloist and recitalist, Matthew is an experienced stage director, an acting and vocal coach, a rehearsal director, a beginning piano instructor and an arts administrator. He earned a bachelor’s degree in vocal music performance from Ithaca College. $35 for 30 minutes, $50 for 45 minutes, and $60 for Hour Lessons.
Known as “Dr. P” to her students, Kay Paulsen has more than 40 years’ experience as a professional singer and primary, secondary, and post-secondary music teacher.
Dr. Kay Paulsen, adjunct instructor of voice at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, has more than 40 years experience as a professional singer and as a primary, secondary, and university music educator. The holder of a D.M.A. in voice performance & pedagogy from the University of Colorado Boulder, Kay has sung with the Lyric Opera of Chicago; the Chicago and Atlanta symphony choruses; and as soloist with orchestras and choral societies throughout Illinois, Colorado, and Idaho. Affectionately known as “Dr. P” to her students, Kay is noted for her uncanny ability to diagnose damaged voices and return them to vocal health; she has trained vocal performers in varying genres, as well as training primary and secondary-level music teachers. She also works effectively with special needs performers. Many of her former students have gone on to professional singing careers in multiple genres all over the world. She earned graduate and undergraduate degrees in music from Northwestern University and Greenville College (Ill.), respectively.
Dr. Paulsen will return to teaching this Fall. Her rates are as follows: $35 for 30 minutes, $60 for 45 minutes, and $70 for Hour Lessons.