SINGING IS FUN
singing lessons in Prague and Online
The singing school Singing is Fun was opened in 2012.
Singing lessons that have helped hundreds of beginners and advanced singers. All of them were taught with the help of the mirror technique, a special training plan and laughter.
THE AREAS WE WILL FOCUS ON TOGETHER
Our singing lessons are customized to suit each student’s needs. However, we also have well-defined objectives and fundamental elements that we will consistently concentrate on.
- Self-development
- Self-knowledge
- Elimination of bad habits
- Gaining confidence
- Voice care
- Learning tricks from your singing idols
- Self-actualization
- Microphone work, choreography, "the stage is my home"
- Connecting with other singers
- Planning the steps of your singing career
I come from the small Slovak town of Námestovo. I have been singing since I was 6 years old and I was an exhibitionist as a child and the stage was my world. 🙂
I successfully represented my primary and later secondary school, my town and district at various singing competitions and public events. I attended a folk art school and sang in the church choir in my spare time. Since 1998, I have started to teach choral singing for younger students myself.
In the end, I went to the Czech Republic to pursue music, so that I could fulfill my dream. I started in a big beat band in Prague, where I went through rock school. Meanwhile, I developed my skills in other music projects and dance activities. To improve my vocal potential, I attended private opera lessons with Professor Vavrečková.
In 2004, I took part in Slovak Superstar and in the first year of Czechoslovak Superstar I became the 15th most successful Slovak woman in the competition. It was a nice experience. I myself have gone through several musical genres because I enjoy discovering and expanding my musical horizons.
Danka Stark
I come from eastern Slovakia, from a beautiful city called Košice. I was guided to music and dance from a young age, because my parents were among the best dancers in the Čarnica folklore group. This was also reflected in the fact that at the age of six I started attending an elementary art school, where I chose to play the violin and where I had to play in the dulcimer band as well. Later, at the age of eight, I started dancing in a folklore troupe, which I devoted myself to for about 15 years.
I participated in several music and dance competitions, concerts and festivals not only in Slovakia, but also abroad.
While studying at university, I started my own funk band, in which I was the lead singer. We composed our own stuff, recorded the first album and video clips for some songs.
I also worked as a vocalist in the band ABBA Slovakia, with whom we toured Slovakia and Hungary every year. This collaboration taught me an incredible amount and gave me one of the most powerful musical experiences. The band and I had the opportunity to perform at one of the biggest music festivals in Europe – the SZIGET festival, where we played for more than 70,000 people.
That’s when I realized that I wanted to devote myself to music full-time, so I moved to Prague. I studied pop singing at the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory and then jazz singing at the Jaroslav Ježek Higher Vocational School, and I am still looking for other music courses and workshops that would take me further.
You can hear my voice at various corporate events and weddings, where I perform with the band PartyLeaders, or in hotels, where I perform only as a duo – piano and vocals.
In my spare time, I try to devote myself to my own work, but it will see the light of day when the right time comes.
In terms of practice, I have been teaching for more than 10 years, not only children, but also adults. It’s something I enjoy and find fulfilling. I believe that anyone can learn to sing if they want to. So if you feel like it, I would be very happy to help you with that.
Jana Klusoňová
I come from a musical family.
From the age of 5, I attended the Bedřich Smetana Elementary Art School in Litomyšl, where I learned to play the flute and piano and went to the choir. We were also born in Litomyšl, which I am very proud of, because this East Bohemian town is the birthplace of many important artists and personalities.
As a teenager, I started singing with amateur bands of various genres and thus gained a very valuable “school”. In 1999, I took part in the national competition of young talents (Talent 99), I impressed with my jazz sensibilities and won third place.
In the same year, I attended private “pop singing” lessons in Prague with the music pedagogue and leading soloist of the Karlín Theater at the time, Mr. Vrastislav Kadlec.
Shortly after the birth of my children, I started organizing themed and benefit concerts, where I also perform myself. Overall, I struggled with a very strong desire for my own musical realization, and even though I had never made a living from music or singing until then, I began to fulfill my own dreams and became a lecturer. (I started organizing singing workshops, seminars, courses and singing lessons).
Jana Jiroušková (GariQ)
Jana was born in Chrášťany, just outside Prague. She first took piano lessons, and at the age of 13 she started classical singing, which she attended at an elementary art school in Prague. She participated in a number of concerts, music shows and gained experience from many beautiful collaborations. At grammar school, she was a member of the choir, which is where her love for polyphony comes from.
The dream of multi-voice then materialized when playing with the Dum Doobie Doobie Band, whose repertoire includes multi-voice rock and roll of the 60s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKqvkSXzW6Q
As a member of original rock bands, she flew on stage as a soloist, in rock and roll bands as a vocalist, and with the electro-rock duo GariQ, she reached the 1st place on the RockZone radio chart.
https://www.youtube.com/@GariqTV/videos
She performed at the National Theater in the play “What happened when Nora left her husband”, with which she made it to many foreign festivals.
Currently, she is a permanent member of the ensemble of the RockOpera Prague theater, where she performs as a singer, dancer and actress alongside the best Czech rock singers and musicians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOP0nIDGjCI
After returning from maternity leave, a surprise awaited her in the form of a “front-frau” position in the band The Dixie Hot Licks (New-Orleans jazz style), which exposed her to another musical landscape: improvisation and scat. He is mainly on the road with the band in the summer and roams not only Czech stages but also foreign festivals (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lithuania…), which also have the world’s biggest jazz stars on the program.
She started teaching singing after completing her studies at the International Conservatory. He teaches adults and children, Czech and English, and respects the individuality of students. The human voice fascinates her and she continues to educate herself at various voice or composition workshops and online seminars with Czech stars in the field as well as foreign lecturers.
And when he has some alone time left, he hangs out with a looper and layers. 🙂
Dora Bondy
– I sing, compose, play the piano and teach. As a child, I sang in Kühn’s children’s choir. Starting at the age of 13 I dedicated myself to classical singing, which I then studied at the conservatory and continue to develop in it today. In music in general, I enjoy experimenting with different genres – indie, pop, rock, hard rock, classical music, electronica, world music, etc. I like exploring new directions and enjoy singing in different languages – Czech, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, Bulgarian, Swahili . I’ve given concerts in the Czech Republic, USA, Brazil, Germany, Slovakia. I work or have worked with music groups: Geoff Tyson Band, N.O.H.A., King of the Mango, Pražský Výtěr, USB, Larika, MaleeDivy, with whom I have gradually released 8 albums and another 3 I released on my own. On my journey I’ve had a chance to meet and work with great musicians such as Frank Filipetti, Dani Robinson, Geoff Tyson, Mik Kim Robin Mood, etc. You can find my original music under my name on all streaming platforms. For 6 years I’ve been taking drums lessons at the ZUŠ and for 5 years I have studied dance (standard and Latin-American). I’ve learnt basics of playing the acoustic guitar. I love teaching because it helps me in my own growth and it helps others at the same time. I enjoy observing the infinite power of individuality of our students and developing it as much as possible. I love the mutual transfer of energy and the sharing of ideas and perspectives that occurs in class.
Bara Klara
I have a pedagogic education, I enjoy imparting knowledge and finding new ways to a sound voice and a more satisfied self. I enjoy meeting people, getting to know them and trying to understand them.
For about 20 years I have been performing on the stages of jazz clubs, festivals, churches, at weddings, private celebrations, corporate events and international conferences. I led music / voice workshops (also under the auspices of the Hlasohled organization). As part of my author readings (see the published books section in my CV), I sing and involve children in music-making in various ways.
In 2000, I went to Iceland with a chamber choir from Prague as part of the Voices of Europe singing project, where our European choir (a hundred members in total!) also sang with Bjork. In 2021, I recorded and released an album of my lullabies “Jasmine Lullabies” on my own label (www.kvaga.cz) and in October 2023 I organized a concert of my own original songs “Névýchovný koncert” (see recording on my YT).
I also make a living as a presenter and VoiceOver artist. For several years, my voice was heard on television, where I presented the following TV program (ČT 1, ČT 2). I also narrated an audio/book for Albi from the Magical Reading edition (Vastilveda, geographical part).
Tereza Kindlová
I started with piano and violin when I was little. Later I got to choir singing, which accompanied me throughout my childhood. I have played several musical roles in the school choir, played a lot of concerts and took part in several competitions. Since then, I have also been preparing younger students for singing competitions. Over time I began to focus more on popular music and solo singing. Now I play the keyboards and I sing with Janek Ledecký in his project Mr. Everest-Bob Dylan Tribute and in a band called Frantmeni.
Kateřina Vacková
Kateřina Vacková is a singer and double bass player working on the border between pop, classical music and jazz. She is part of Uthando, Blue Oyster Court, At Ease, KlangWesen all characterized by a colorful and imaginative repertoire drawing on jazz, contemporary classical and avant-garde music.
She studied popular singing at the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory in Prague where she studied under Agnieszka Twardoch. For two years she continued her studies in jazz performance at the College She is constantly developing her singing and teaching skills – in recent years she has participated in the Voice Workshop with Sarmen Almond, certified teacher of Centre Artistique International ROY HART, or in the Popular Singing Technique workshop with Dita Kosmáková, certified teacher of CVT.
Jiri Vales
I was born in Kladno, but I have lived in Prague all my life. I started singing around 17 in a class rock band at the gymnasium and I began learning at ZUŠ Štefánikova.
Subsequently, through the teacher Helena Kubelková, I found the rock department of the International Conservatory Prague, where my teachers were Petr Opava and Vlasta Horváth and were I graduated with Judas at the JCHS accompanied by the band lead by Richard Scheufler. Later I learned from Maya Baranová and Hana Pecková.
I played and sang for three years at RockOpera Prague, in the sci-fi musical Ray Bradbury’s 2116 directed by Steve Josephson and the symphonic rock fantasy musical Králové Avalon by Lukáš Pařík. Since 2010, I have been singing with the funk-pop band Klagenfurt, where I write lyrics in both Czech and English and sometimes compose music.
For about 8 years, I have been engaged in drama mainly at the MA Theater (Theatre in Celetná, Grebovka Summer with the MA Theater, Na Prádle Theatre, Werich’s Villa), and as an extern at the National Theatre. I shoot series and films with Czech and foreign productions.
In the lessons, I pass on what was instilled in me by my teachers and what I learned in practice. In the songs, I emphasize the sincerity of the message, its concreteness and the associated organic nature.
For the third year, I am teaching interpretation at the rock department of the International Conservatory Prague, in which I also rely on some principles of Stanislavsky’s psychological theater system acquired by studying with Marianna Arzumanova.
I will be happy to take a look at your singing technique, your favourite songs and I will be happy to help you with your own creations.
“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it!”
Klagenfurt: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2yareBgAPHK3qt1PwIUtp9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSj7Es6eCI4
Theater MA: https://www.divadloma.cz/jiri-vales
MKP rock department: https://www.konzervatorpraha.cz/prehled-oddeleni/odd%C4%9Blen%C3%AD-rockov%C3%A9ho-zp%C4%9Bvu
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