Own Your Voice - Vocal Teacher

Ryan Luchuck is one of Canada's busiest voice instructors, balancing a roster of over 200 students. He has travelled regularly for over a decade to study with the most highly regarded vocal instructors in the world. Ryan has been mentored closely by master voice instructor Dave Stroud (CEO of DSVocology, based in Los Angeles) since 1997 and now serves as his Co-Director of Education. He holds an outstanding background as a Certified Speech Level Singing Instructor (2006-2011), having also held a post as a prestigious SLS EAG member (Education Advisory Group).

Clients of Ryan Luchuck include Juno, SOCAN and Gemini Award wining artists, Musical Theatre Stage leads, and many of Canada's most active performers. Ryan's ability to quickly diagnose and provide singers of all styles with a clear, logical path to success has been the key to his phenomenal success.

In addition to his mastery of vocal technique, Ryan has travelled nationally as a performing songwriter, released two critically acclaimed CDs and logged over 2000 performances as a musician and singer. An exceptional multi-instrumentalist, he has worked professionally on piano, guitar, bass guitar, double bass, trumpet, and drums as well as a singer. He also serves as an orchestral arranger and a studio producer for many of his clients.

Ryan's current projects include a role in the creation of VocalizeU (www.vocalizeu.com), a comprehensive software app created for singers. He has also teamed with his colleague Brandon Brophy to form Superheroes of Voice (www.superheroesofvoice.com), an charitable initiative created to spread cutting edge education to singers. Their most recent event in downtown Toronto was jammed with over 100 vocalists, eager to learn a logical, effective vocal technique.

"Ryan teaching a vocal workshop in 2011 with the Superheroes of Voice"

Ryan's Teacher

Any great instructor has been trained by the best. Here is the voice instructor and mentor that has been the most influential in Ryan's own voice and teaching. See Ryan's thoughts on Dave below.

Dave Stroud

Ryan's Comments:

Dave has been my good friend and vocal mentor since 1997. His influence on my voice, teaching and life is immeasurable. He taught me never to be satisfied with your teaching and constantly push for a deeper knowledge and understanding of the voice. The man is an absolute master vocal technician and his influence on the worldwide vocal community has been massive with still so much to come.

Dave's Bio: Click here »

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.

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. Currently, Dave has been traveling with Adam Lambert’s critically aclaimed GlamNation National tour as Adam’s private vocal instructor, helping Adam to prepare and deal with the vocal stresses of singing and performing night after night and to keep his voice in healthy condition. 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.