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 a multi-teacher studio in Denver and in 2019 opened Vocal Intensive Studios in the Hudson Valley.

Pilar is recognized for her ability to bring out the best in every student by combining technical expertise with a deep understanding of each singer’s unique potential. She has guided and prepared students into competitive college musical theatre and vocal programs, including the University of Michigan, Boston Conservatory, Pace University, Ithaca College, and Marymount Manhattan. They have gone on to perform professionally and in Broadway national tours. Her students have also been winners at the national level for NATS -Student Auditions for musical theatre.

She works with professional touring singers in bands and avocational adult students looking to unlock their vocal potential .  Pilar specializes in guiding students who doubt their abilities, to grow into confident and successful performers.

Earlier in her career she taught vocal workshops for the yoga and fitness industry, including Willpower and Grace, to help group fitness teachers learn to project and protect their voices and worked with the LGBTQ community on transgender voice change and development. She continues to serve as a vocal education specialist for theatre groups and schools throughout the Hudson Valley. Pilar was also a voice consultant for Skyelab Recording Studio in Manhattan and continues to collaborate with producers and studios in Colorado and New York.

As a performer she has worked with Nashville Opera, Augusta Opera, Nevada Opera, Shreveport Opera, Seagle Music Festival, 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.