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At CrystalVoice Studio, we have three teachers with unique backgrounds and overlapping skill sets: Crystal, Elizabeth and Brandon.
One of them is perfect for your needs! Scroll down to learn about each teacher.
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Meet your vocal coach
✳︎ Meet your vocal coach
Our Team
Crystal Barron
Founder, Somatic Vocal CoachCrystal Barron is a somatic vocal coach, singing voice specialist, vocologist, and faculty member at USC whose work bridges artistry, science, and somatic awareness to support sustainable and expressive vocal performance. She is dedicated to helping singers and professional voice users cultivate authenticity, resilience and joy in their creative practice.
Holding certifications in multiple cross-disciplinary modalities, Barron’s comprehensive coaching model integrates bodywork, MDH Breathing Coordination, TRE® (Tension and Trauma Release Exercises), Laryngeal Massage and trauma-informed coaching frameworks, which allows her to offer a uniquely embodied approach to vocal development. Her work emphasizes the interconnection of mind, body, breath and voice— empowering artists to unlearn restrictive habits, build self-trust and develop the freedom to communicate with clarity and emotional depth.
Styles: Pop, Rock, R&B, Musical Theatre, Vocal Jazz, Classical/Opera
Specialties:
Somatic Voice Coaching and Vocal Rehab
Integration and healing of the relationship between voice, artistry and self-identity
Hypermobility and the voice
POTS and the voice
Vocal Health - Chronic Vocal Injury, Complex Vocal Health Issues, Chronic vocal Fatigue, Muscle Tension Dysphonia, Nodules, Presbyphonia, Paresis/Paralysis, Stroke, Auto-Immune, low volume
Gender affirming voice training
Challenges of professional and pre-professional voice users
Nervous System Regulation- Performance Anxiety, Mental Blocks, PTSD, C-PTSD, TRE®(Tension & Trauma Release Exercises)
MDH Breathing Coordination
Laryngeal Massage
Areas of Focus
Singers looking to:
Improve their relationship with their voice
Singers preparing for performances and recording
Anyone experiencing vocal injury, including complex and chronic injury
College audition coaching for Popular Music and Musical Theatre
Elizabeth Prescott
Vocal CoachElizabeth Prescott is a seasoned member of the Screen Actor’s Guild and Actor’s Equity Association with professional theater, film, and recording credits, including a Grammy-winning vocal jazz group, in addition to teaching vocal and performance techniques. After discovering the work of Robin De Haas and Lynn Martin, she found MDH Breathing Coordination to be “the missing piece” so many describe, and completed over 400 hours of specialized training in functional anatomy and the relationship between the breathing mechanism and voice. In 2014, she became fourth in the world to be certified in Martin & De Haas Breathing Coordination and the first practitioner in the U.S. to achieve this distinction.
Elizabeth serves accomplished vocalists and world-class vocal instructors, specializing in audition and performance technique. Clients also include people with complex breathing challenges, including elite athletes. She works with great sensitivity and efficiency to empower clients to achieve their goals and fully understand how to use the unique instrument of the human breathing mechanism and voice.
Brandon Paul
Vocal CoachBrandon Paul is a vocal coach, recording artist, songwriter, and self-produced musician with nearly a decade of experience. He specializes in helping singers build a strong, connected, and expressive voice across all registers, while guiding artists in developing their unique sound and identity. His approach blends vocal technique with artistry, focusing on eliminating tension, improving consistency, and creating a voice that feels both free and powerful.
Brandon works with singers of all levels and specializes in vocal agility, helping develop control, clarity, and flexibility for riffs, runs, and contemporary styles. He also teaches songwriting and artist development, bringing real-world experience into every lesson to support students as confident, expressive artists.
Contemporary styles: Pop, R&B, Musical Theater, Indie, Soul
Specialties:
Building a connected, balanced voice
Reducing vocal tension and creating ease, consistency, and stamina
Developing vocal control without overthinking or strain
Helping singers find their natural tone and authentic sound
Translating technique into real singing (songs, performance, live application)
Vocal agility: riffs, runs, flexibility, and stylistic control
Songwriting and artist development
Melody writing, vocal phrasing, and musical expression
Helping artists create and refine their original music
Supporting self-produced artists and independent musicians
Areas of Focus:
Beginner to advanced singers
Singers preparing for performances, gigs, or recording
Vocalists looking to build confidence and trust in their voice
Experience the difference with a somatic approach that honors your voice, your body, and your lived experience.
“I’ll never forget walking away from my first voice lesson with you. Pretty sure I told you then too—but it was the FIRST voice lesson I ever experienced that didn’t leave me feeling anxious, tight, and in my head. I now use what I learned from you in my own movement coaching! The body is truly is amazing. And YOU’RE even MORE amazing!!!”
- A.B., Professional Performer