Solveig · Bergen, Vestland · since 2020
One to one singing lessons for adults and teenagers, and an outside ear for small choirs.
Trial lesson · 30 min · NOK 450
All lessons and rates| Service | Length | NOK | Notes |
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| Private lessons · adults and teenagers from 13 | |||
| Trial lesson | 30 min | 450 | Where every new student begins, so neither of us commits to a block before meeting. |
| Single lesson | 45 min | 780 | For a set piece, or a week when an hour is too long. |
| Single lesson | 60 min | 950 | The usual weekly length, warm up included. |
| Ten lessons | 60 min | 8,800 | Ten 60 minute lessons, used within 16 weeks. |
| Choirs · up to 40 voices | |||
| Choir visit | 2 h | 3,400 | At your Monday or Wednesday rehearsal, travel included within 40 km of Bergen centre. |
| Choir season of six visits | 6 visits | 18,600 | Spread over 8-12 weeks, booked six weeks ahead. How a season runs. |
| Saturday intensive | 10:00-16:00 | 6,500 | One long day for one choir, with a lunch break. |
- Travel beyond 40 km of Bergen centre is NOK 5 per km each way, plus any ferry fare at cost.
- Invoices are paid by bank transfer within 14 days.
- Lessons are in person only, in the studio in Bergen. No video lessons.
- Moving a lesson is free with 24 hours notice. Later is charged in full, with one free late cancellation per term.
Most new students start within two to three weeks. From mid August to October there is often a short waiting list.
Private lessons · in person, in Bergen
How lessons run
One to one, in the studio, for adults and for teenagers from thirteen. This is how the first block usually goes, from the first email to the evening in June.
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Step 01
A first email
Write to hello@kvoalto.com with what you sing, how long you have sung, and what you want to change. A church alto who wants an easier top, a band singer who tires by the second set: a line or two is plenty. I answer within two working days. What else helps in a first message is on the contact page.
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Step 02 30min, the trial lesson
The trial lesson
Thirty minutes of listening, breathing and one song you bring. It costs NOK 450 and commits neither of us. If we both want to carry on, we fix a weekly 60 minute slot before you put your coat on.
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Step 03 60min a week 10lessons in the block
The first ten
Weekly 60 minute lessons, each opening with the same warm up. In the first lesson of the block you also record one verse on your own mobile, and we leave it there until week eight. The warm up never changes, and that is the point: the week it starts to feel easy, the progress is audible to both of us. The block of ten is NOK 8,800.
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Step 04 8weeks in, we record
Week eight
We record a verse on your mobile and play it beside the one you recorded in week one. Nothing else in the lesson explains as much in thirty seconds, and the recordings stay with you.
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Step 05
After the block
Continue with another ten, pause for a term, or come and sing for each other at the informal studio evening in June. Autumn term runs mid August to mid December, spring term early January to the end of June.
Not taken on
Said plainly, so nobody writes in hope.
- Children under thirteen. Their voices are better served by a children's choir first.
- Choirs larger than forty singers.
- Crash preparation for a wedding, audition or performance less than three weeks away.
- Hoarseness, pain or loss of voice. You see a doctor first, and lessons continue after.
- Coaching for television talent show auditions.
- Arrangements written or commissioned to order.
- Lessons by video call.