LIEDER ALIVE! founder and director Maxine Bernstein offers coaching and consulting services for professional and aspiring singers and instrumentalists on a year-round basis.
A devoted advocate for opera, lieder and all branches of classical music, Ms. Bernstein has lived, performed and taught in New York, London, Paris, Vienna and now San Francisco. At her Imperial Avenue Music Studio, she offers professional and aspiring singers and instrumentalists a uniquely supportive and flexible coaching style, integrating her extensive knowledge of vocal training and repertoire with her mentoring and life-coaching experience. The soprano’s international musical education culminated in her studies with Christa Ludwig.
“I sang a couple of pieces from my upcoming San Francisco Performances recital after we spoke about singing, life, families, death, grief, love, and Maxine made comments that were very astute and helpful”
—Christine Brewer
“Maxine has simply the best ears I know, and the most gentle and positive method to elicit your best sound”
—Marcelle Dronkers
“Maxine Bernstein’s teaching inspires technical proficiency alongside deep revelation into my own true source of song”
—Dana Miralason
Maxine has had the privilege of counseling and/or coaching many extraordinary musical artists over the years, including June Anderson, soprano; Adrianne Pieczonka, soprano; Brian Asawa, counter-tenor; Christine Brewer, soprano; Heidi Melton, soprano; Katherine Tier, mezzo-soprano; JiYoung Yang, soprano; Eleazar Rodriguez, tenor; Sol Jin, baritone; Sarah Cambidge, soprano; Pene Pati, tenor; Kirk Eichelberger, bass; Thomas Glenn, tenor; Heidi Moss Erickson, soprano; Kindra Scharich, mezzo-soprano; Paul Yarbrough, viola; co-founder of the Alexander String Quartet, and of course all of her wonderful LIEDER ALIVE! artists, often extending her unique capacity of matching voices and souls with the perfect repertoire.