Hello - first time poster to this group. My daughter, a soprano, has some excellent choices for starting her undergraduate studies next fall. We recently visited one of her top choices and had 3 lessons. She loved the personality of the first teacher, said her second lesson was phenomenal and the third lesson was good.
I asked my daughter's current and former (moved to another university) voice teachers to see if they could find out more about Ms. Phenomenal from their colleagues and I got back some very conflicting information - so conundrum. I'm hearing everything from "best teacher there" (from a former colleague of Ms. Phenomenal) to "her students sound too old for their ages" (from someone who has attended juries with Ms. Phenomenal's students.)
Can someone more experienced help me to weigh the second comment (sounding too old for their ages). Is that a teacher shortcoming or is that a student shortcoming? Can this be managed with appropriate selection of rep?
I'm trying not to disclose the school, obviously, but this feedback kind of burst my daughter's bubble a bit. (Studio matching happens during the summer at this school.)
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