Meet Our Team
Crystal Barron
SERVICES: 1:1 Vocal Training (Musical Theatre, all Popular Music Styles), Breathing and Bodywork, Vocal Massage, Vocal Health Assessment and Emergency Vocal First Aid Screening
IN PERSON OR ONLINE
Crystal Barron is a Vocal Health Specialist, NCVS trained Vocologist and Voice and Breathing Coach for professional and aspiring professional singers, voice teachers and other professional voice users. She has decades of experience working with career track singers, voice teachers and professional voice users recovering with vocal injuries, guiding them to sing and teach without fear of vocal injury or loss of artistry and identity. She believes curiosity and joy are catalysts for learning, and utilizes collaborative teaching models to develop autonomy and mastery using evidence based teaching methods and strategies.
A self-proclaimed anatomy geek and voice science nerd, she is on the board for Vocology in Practice (ViP), a voting member for Pan-American Vocology Association (PAVA), certified in Vocal Health First Aid, is in the final stages of completing a Vocal Health Practitioner certification, member of The Voice Foundation and ASHA, and holds the distinction of being the only MDH Breathing Coordination Advanced Certified Practitioner in the US. She completed additional training with Walt Fritz in Manual Therapy for Voice and Swallowing (laryngeal massage) and is a trained massage therapist. Her academic degree is a Master’s of Music in Vocal Performance from California State University, Long Beach. She works closely with laryngologists in the Southern California area, and along with her multi-disciplinary team provides vocal health education and vocal health “pop-up” screenings to performing arts companies, university and conservatory vocal programs, school teachers, performing artists unions and anyone who has a desire to build a better relationship with their voice.
Some of Crystal’s most notable clients include Sophia James (American Idol top 10), Brennley Brown (The Voice top 6) and Vangie Gunn (lead singer, Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band). She has been featured on Jamilla Ford’s “Working Singer Podcast”, has been a presenter for PAVA, ViP, NATs Cal-Western and Los Angeles, Empowered Singer Workshops, and University of California Irvine Department of Music Theatre. In addition to her private studio, she has taught applied voice at the university level in musical theatre (UCI), CCM (Biola University and California Baptist University), and western classical (CBU) vocal technique and styles. She also has taught undergraduate and graduate level Vocal Pedagogy at California State University, Fullerton. Crystal lives in Los Alamitos, CA with her 3 daughters, studio dog, and cat
Britta Sterling, CCC-SLP
SERVICES: Voice Therapy, Vocal Massage, Vocal Health Assessment and Emergency Vocal First Aid Screening, and Stroboscopy
IN PERSON OR ONLINE
Britta Sterling is a fully licensed speech therapist, who specializes in the treatment of voice disorders. Britta received her master's degree in Communication Disorders at Georgia Southern University at Armstrong in 2015. Britta has been a working, licensed speech-language pathologist in California, and a member of ASHA for the past six years. She is also a trained singer in classical, choral, musical theater, and jazz genres. She received a bachelor of music degree from CSU Northridge in 2010. Britta has received training as a vocologist from the Vocology Institute held at The University of Utah in Salt Lake City; where she studied under Dr. Ingo Titze.
Elizabeth Prescott
SERVICES: 1:1 Vocal Training (All Styles), Performance & Audition Coaching, Breathing and Bodywork
ONLINE ONLY
After teaching voice and musicianship at her Los Angeles studio for over twenty years, she now enjoys teaching online from her new studio in Saint George, Utah.
Having worked extensively in her early career with legendary teacher and author David Craig, she went on to teach workshops in audition and performance technique at such venues as the Kennedy Center and the William Inge Center for the Arts.
As for vocal technique, she successfully combined extensive professional musical theater and light opera credits with film and recording credits, including Grammy-winning L.A. Jazz Choir, and she loved being able to sing freely in virtually any style, and especially to guide her students to sing, audition and perform at “Olympic” levels. Still, she continued to seek out the best possible instruction on the planet, piecing together what she learned from each of them and applying it to the various styles she taught and performed herself. And then in 2011, she discovered MDH Breathing Coordination and found it to be “the missing piece” for the voice that tied everything together, even though she hadn’t realized anything was missing. But suddenly, there was no mystery, no struggle. She knew this was something that she “couldn’t not do”.
In 2014, her hundreds of hours of specialized training culminated in Lausanne, Switzerland when she became fourth in the world and first in the U.S. to be certified in this practice.
In 2016, she presented at both UCLA Medical Center and UC Irvine patient conferences helping non-singers find greater freedom and balance in breathing. In 2017, she completed the English translation of the highly acclaimed book “La Voie de la Voix” to “The Path of the Voice” by her close colleague Robin De Haas, internationally acclaimed vocal consultant.
Having met Crystal Barron during her journey with Breathing Coordination, it is a great joy to join CrystalVoice Studio as we share the same passion for clear, positive teaching, collaboration and constant discovery in this wonderful world of voice and performance.
Jessica Hayes, LMT
Massage for Singers, Vocal Massage
IN PERSON ONLY
Jessica’s bio coming soon…
Linda Rose Linnebach
SERVICES: 1:1 Vocal Training (Western Classical), Breathing and Bodywork, Vocal Massage, Vocal Yoga
IN PERSON OR ONLINE
Linda Rose Linnebach is a Voice and Breathing Coach to voice professionals and singers. M.D.H. Breathing Coordination®, Manual Release Technique for Neck, Voice & Swallowing Disorders and Vocal Yoga® are an integral part of her private and university teaching.
Her professional career was primarily in Austria where she performed with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Harmonices Mundi, Brucknerbund Kammerorchestra and the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra.
While in Austria, she was a professor of voice and worked with Erwin Ortner (artistic director Arnold Schönberg Choir) where she served as resident voice coach. Upon returning to the U.S., she became the Artistic Director to the South-Orange-County-School-of-the-Arts’ annual Opera Night program (17 years) and taught at the California Conservatory of the Arts.
Linda holds a B.M. from USC and a M.F.A. from UCI. Additional training at Wesley Balk’s Opera-Theater-Institute, Vienna Academy for Music and Performing Arts and the Salzburg Mozarteum, Austria.
NATS-LA Executive Board member since 2017