Kelley Hijleh is an applied voice teacher who enjoys combining her experience as a singer and a singing teacher with her voice pedagogy and voice science knowledge to help singers build a good vocal foundation. Ms. Hijleh holds a BMus and a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Voice Performance. She was mentored in vocal acoustics by Dr. Donald Miller (1933-2020), one of the creators of the voice analysis software, Voce Vista for 15 years, and has been an invited presenter and discussant on Voce Vista and vocal acoustics for the Voice Study Centre, at SUNY-Fredonia, Syracuse University, Illinois State University, Jacksonville State University, at the Voice Pedagogy Summit II in Los Angeles, International Voice Teachers of Mix (IVTOM), The Voice Foundation, and with Richard Lissemore at the NATS Eastern Regional Conference. Ms. Hijleh is the Associate Director of the Singing Voice Science Workshop and has presented annually at the workshop since it was founded in 2015. She also serves on an advisory board for Voce Vista, LLC. As an experienced practitioner, Ms. Hijleh provides tutoring in VoceVista’s use and application. In 2021, her article “Realizing the Benefits of SOVTEs: A Reflection on the Research,” co-written by Cory Pinto, was published in the Journal of Singing. Ms. Hijleh has been on the voice faculties of Houghton College, SUNY-Fredonia, Montclair State University, and The King’s College (NYC). In the summer of 2024, she served as voice faculty for the MRL Music Festival at the Kaufman Music Center in NYC. She resides in Black Mountain, NC where she maintains an online voice studio and teaches voice at Montreat College.
