Teacher

As a master class clinician, Elizabeth has presented for The New York Singing Teachers’ Association (NYSTA), for Colorado-Wyoming NATS, and at several universities and theatre companies around the country, including The University of Colorado in Boulder and Queensbury Theatre in Houston. She specializes in versatile vocal function, with stylistic applications spanning from opera to musical theatre to rock singing. She is trained in Somatic Voicework™, the LoVetri Method, Lisa Popeil’s Voiceworks® Method, Estill Voice Training®, and Soul Ingredients® Method. She has completed further teacher training with the CCM Voice Pedagogy Institute, Broadway Teaching Group, Rock the Audition (Sheri Sanders), Scream with Melissa Cross, and Sharpening Your CCM Toolkit with Dane Chalfin and Kim Chandler.

Elizabeth is an Associate Professor of Music Theatre Voice at Auburn University, where she teaches applied voice for music theatre majors, and class voice for non-majors. She has also served as music director or vocal director in over 12 university theatre productions, including Into the Woods, Spring Awakening, The Integration of Tuskegee High School, Bring it On, and the filmed cabaret show New Day Dawning: Finding Hope at the Theatre. At Auburn, she directed and music-directed Elegies: A Song Cycle and Puttin’ on the Hits (an original cabaret show co-conceived and co-directed with Auburn colleague Jeri Dickey).

In addition to her work at Auburn, Elizabeth maintains an independent voice studio, Benson Music Studios specializing in musical theatre, popular, and contemporary training for singers and teachers.

Contact

For inquiries about private lessons, teacher training, workshops, or vocal direction, please contact Dr. Benson below.