Teacher

For the past 25 years, Ahdda has empowered and trained many hundreds of singers to sing with beauty, skill and ease in a variety of musical styles and venues. Some of her students are successful crossover pop artists, musical theater singers, opera and choral singers, and international speakers.

She teaches classical and non-classical voice and specializes in assisting singers and speakers to recover from vocal strain or injury. She holds a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Opera and Opera Stage Direction from the Indiana University, School of Music, Bloomington, Indiana. At IU, she was a voice student of the famed Rumanian/Italian soprano and Bel Canto specialist, Virginia Zeani and performed leading opera roles, along with interning as an assistant stage director.

Her powerfully effective holistic system of voice training: VOGA™ VoiceYoga for peak performance, combines elements of vocal therapy and mind/body disciplines with the traditional Bel Canto methods. You can read more about this in her book "Sopranos Are Not Pianos – How Vocal Magic Happens For Women Singers", available on Amazon.com. To purchase her VOGA warmups in 9 minutes or Less! And her Improvisations on Sacred chants, please visit: https://ahddashur1.bandcamp.com/

As a featured vocal soloist, Ahdda has performed in America, Europe and the Middle East in repertoire spanning opera, musical theater, sacred music and world music. For over ten years she performed internationally in a variety of mezzo-soprano roles with major international opera companies such as Zurich Oper, Switzerland, The Israeli Opera, Tel Aviv, Long Beach Opera, CA, Cincinnati Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin/San Antonio Festival, Strasbourg Music Festival, France, and more.

As a Cantorial Soloist, Ahdda served with major USA Synagogues from 1980 through 2017, for High Holy Days, Festivals and Special Concerts. Additionally, she produced and created original semi-staged music concerts and was a frequent guest artist in concerts and recordings of her late father, composer, Bonia Shur.

In 2017, after living and teaching in Los Angeles, CA for over 16 years, Ahdda relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio. From 2018 to the present, Ahdda has been the main voice teacher at a private music Academy in Oxford Ohio (OxfordMusicAcademy). Previous to that she was an adjunct voice professor at the New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL; Barry University, Miami and on the voice faculty of the Levinksy College of Education, Tel Aviv, Israel.