Miriam Davidson is an accomplished voice teacher, children’s educator, conductor, performer and adjudicator in Vancouver, BC. She teaches singing at her music studio, located at East 60th Ave. and Knight Street in Vancouver. She offers both in person lessons and online. She also teaches singing and conducts the women’s choir, the Real Treble Makers at Mt. Pleasant Community Centre, Music & Movement at Renfrew Community Centre and group classes for children and adults at the Shadbolt Centre and at Edmonds Community Centre in Burnaby.
Blog Posts
Happy 2013!
My oh my. The last blog post was in October and it is now three months later on New Year’s Day. I had many gigs in the last three months. My new year’s resolution for 2012 was to post twice…
Giving Thanks
Fall is now underway – sort of. Here on the normally Wet Coast, we are currently experiencing the driest and warmest fall on record. While I do enjoy being able to still wear skirts without stockings and shorts, I realize…
September Song
September is here or also known as the other New Year. Since my husband and I are both teachers, September is when our new routines emerge and we get settled into respective jobs. This September, that is especially true since…
Marriage
Summer is more than halfway over now that we are a week and a half into August. Two months is really not very long and yet summer seemed like an eternity when we were kids. I love the warmth of…
Be kind
The warm month of July is now upon us and with the summer comes very little teaching and gigging. That is to be expected in the worlds of music education and classical music performance. After all, everyone needs a vacation…
Moving Backward
After a busy month of gigs and end of term recitals in May, June is winding down in terms of gigs and teaching. I’m also taking part of June off which is why I haven’t scheduled very much. Instead, I’m…
Now is the Month of Maying
Okay kids, you get a free voice lesson if you get the title of this blog entry. There is nothing more geeky than a group of classical musicians. We make Trekkies look like cool hipsters. Oh well. This morning (Sun.,…
In Between
There are no gigs for April but after a busy March and the two gigs I’ll have in May, I’m happy for the lull. I was also subbing for an alto section leader at St. James Anglican church in the…
In like a lion, out like a lamb
When referring to the unpredictable weather in March, especially on the West Coast of British Columbia, the phrase is “In like a lion, out like a lamb” is often used. This certainly applies to my musical life this month. The Laudate…
The ordinary becomes extraordinary
An ordinary day sometimes becomes extraordinary. On Monday, January 23, I got a phone call from a dear friend of mine to say that his wife had suddenly collapsed, had no pulse and wasn’t breathing. He did CPR on her…