Sing as nature intended

Your vocal cords are your instrument, and they vibrate in order to produce sound–just like every other instrument on Earth. The only difference is, you can’t physically see this instrument.

That means you have to learn to feel it.

About the Carson Vocal Method

This Method is for anyone with a voice. Most often, it’s for people who want to sing. The good news is, singing is available to anyone with a voice–your vocal cords are your instrument.

The less-good news is, much of what is taught on how to sing today flies in the face of science. The result is, singers don’t get the beautiful, rich sounds from their natural biology–and in extreme cases, can develop vocal nodules. Instructions like “breath control” or “singing in the mask” or “projecting” all became popular, but none frees the voice to perform as nature intended.

The Carson Vocal Method is in response to that. If you would like to sing as nature intended, read on.

Your Instructors

After decades of performing on stages worldwide, Jim Carson and Sandra Mannis-Carson now exclusively focus on coaching clients 1:1 and through online tutorials that build on an historic method of singing.

Our mission and privilege is to pass on this Method, with its roots in 18th-century Italian techniques, to the singers of today and tomorrow.

  • My life from a very early age has been driven by a deep love of music. Even as I pursued other professions or found myself at the brink of medical school, music always pulled me back.

    Many years and experiences later, my career continues to include the art. I have coached brilliant musicians and up-and-coming beginners. I was the vocal coach for beloved musicians including Eva Cassidy and X, and for talented actors in Julie Taymor’s “The Lion King,” “Frida,” and “Across the Universe.”

  • New Jersey native earned her bachelor of music degree from the Juilliard School. While still a student there, she sang the dual roles of the Witch and Princess in Dvorak’s Rusalka with the American Opera Center at Lincoln Center.

    After winning first place in the Liederkranz Competition, Ms. Mannis-Carson made her professional operatic debut as Ulrica in Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera at the Regensburg Stadttheater in Germany. Performances of leading mezzo and contralto roles followed in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and in the United States.

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