Rachel Rynick began studying music as a child at the Joy of Music Program in Worcester, MA, taking recorder lessons, piano lessons and performing with various choruses. While earning her B.A. in Education and Music at Swarthmore College, Rachel fell in love with classical singing through her voice studies with Julian Rodescu, Debra Scurto-Davis, and Clara Rottsolk, as well as joining a pop a cappella group and continuing her piano studies. After graduating, Rachel began to pursue singing more seriously, putting on several solo recitals consisting of not only classical repertoire but also jazz, pop, and folk.
In 2011, Rachel earned her Master of Music degree in vocal performance at the Longy School of Music, studying with renowned soprano Anna Gabrieli, and has since continued to broaden and deepen her understanding of healthy voice use and genuine musical expression across genres, studying pop and rock vocal technique with voice therapist Barbara Wilson Arboleda, jazz piano, voice and theory with Vanessa Morris, and attending trainings in Somatic Voicework (the LoVetri Method) and Estill Voice Training. Rachel has also studied the anatomy, physics, and acoustics of voice production with Dr. Ingo Titze at the National Center for Voice and Speech, and currently studies rock and metal vocals with Melissa Cross in New York, NY. She is also an amateur guitar and ukulele player, and studies drums with Mike Levesque. Rachel is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and is passionate about helping people develop the healthy tools and musical awareness they need to best express the music that speaks to them.
In addition to a full teaching schedule as music director of the Joyous Works and voice, piano, ukulele, recorder, and drum teacher at Discover Music & Art, Dana Hall School of Music, All Newton Music School, and her private studio, Intrinsic Voice, Rachel performs her original rock music in the greater Boston area, and her first album, Kneel and Kiss the Ground, is available everywhere digital music is sold.