With his unique gift for imparting expert vocal technique and his unparalleled ability to quickly assess singer’s strengths and weaknesses, Dave Stroud is one of the most sought after voice teachers in the country. Based in Los Angeles, Dave has traveled the world lecturing and teaching and has over 25 years experience as a private voice instructor. An expert at guiding vocalists towards their personal and professional goals, Dave is able to analyze voices quickly, giving his students balanced voices that function at their maximum potential.

Once Dave has assessed a singer’s overall vocal health and ability, he formulates a personalized plan to help each student maintain his or her signature sound while maximizing the freedom, balance, and agility in the voice. He approaches each student and situation on a case-by-case basis, using specific, targeted exercises to help each student reach his or her vocal goals. One of the foremost expert Speech Level Singing instructors, Dave is particularly gifted at helping students navigate throughout the entire range with ease and freedom. Technically, he focuses on helping students hold the larynx still and vocal cords together, which keeps his students in top vocal health.

Dave is not only able to give singers the technical foundation they need to succeed, but also introduce them to a network of industry resources. As a businessman and entrepreneur himself, Dave understands the importance of a singers’ ability to market themselves and form connections with music industry professionals. Using the skills he developed as a young entrepreneur with other business ventures, Dave began printing and distributing the vocal magazine “Connecting Voices”. With more than 25 years of experience as a voice teacher, Dave is able to combine his teaching skills and business prowess to give his students the necessary technical abilities required of professional singers, an understanding of the music business, and connections to the music industry.

Before opening his current studio, on the famed Sunset Blvd, Dave was the Chief Executive Officer of Speech Level Singing International. He developed and oversaw the SLS teacher certification program, which allowed the company to reach its pinnacle as a global network of hundreds of certified teachers worldwide. All of these business ventures helped Dave to focus on the importance of developing singers as artists and technicians, and the imperative of developing them as brands, ultimately allowing gifted vocalists to succeed in the commercial world.

Dave enjoys working with students of all ability levels, with students ranging from Billboard Hot 100 recording artists and Broadway stars to beginning vocal students. Dave was commissioned during the American Idol Season 8 tour as a vocal teacher for the touring Idols. He has since worked privately with Adam Lambert, Jordin Sparks, Allison Iraheta, David Cook, and Lee DeWyze.

After giving Justin Timberlake a voice lesson, Dave began working with artists on Justin’s label Interscope, Tenman Records, including Youtube stars Esmee Denters, Brenda Radney, plus Elliot and Free from Freesoul.

Today, production companies, producers, managers, and studios utilize Dave’s expertise to help them prepare new artists for the market and established artists for the demands of hectic tour schedules. Other singers that have come through the studio include: The Sons of Sylvia, Justin Bieber, Daniel Bedingfield, Marie Digby, Jamie Cullum, Ben Folds, The Cheetah Girls, Abraham McDonald, Cody Simpson, Ethan Bortnick, Matt Scannell (Vertical Horizon), Scott Stapp (Creed), Terry Ellis (EnVogue), Evan Rachel Wood, Val Kilmer, Luke Perry, KeKe Palmer (Akeelah and the Bee) Rachael Lampa, Wendy Moten, Tom Johnston (Doobies), Tanya Pinkins, Rosie Gaines, Rachael Lampa, Wendy Moten, Rain (K-pop), Brian Wilson, Topol (fiddler on the roof), and George Takei. Dave also works with many musical theatre actors and has had students in the national companies of Rent, Mamma Mia, The Lion King, Fiddle on the Roof, etc.

Dave has given many lectures on vocal process and development at many prestigious places around the world including: National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, National Association of Teachers of Singing, Stanford University, University of Southern California, San Francisco Conservatory, Palo Alto Research Center, Pacific Voice Foundation, Canadian Voice Care Foundation, Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, Kunstuniversitaet Graz in Austria, and numerous other jazz organizations and societies including the Jazz School in Berkeley, California and Jazz Camp West. He also works with world renowned Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) surgeon Dr. Shawn Nasseri at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to learn about the medical implications of singing and vocal health, cutting edge vocal rehabilitation, and general maintenance care for singers.

Dave is also committed to training other vocal instructors and dedicates a lot of time traveling to other countries ranging from Australia, Austria, Germany, France, the UK, Mexico to China, Singapore, Korea, and Japan in order to train other teachers, as well as work with singers and artists abroad.