About Brenda

Brenda Nuckton, MA, CCC-SLP, is a certified speech-language pathologist and award winning opera stage director.  She holds both a Master of Arts in Speech and Hearing Sciences from Portland State University and a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from The Peabody Conservatory of Music. As a speech-language pathologist, Brenda specializes in remediation of voice disorders and in training healthy use of the speaking voice.  She also has extensive experience teaching correct pronunciation in English, French, German and Italian, and is now focusing on accent reduction in American English.  As a stage director, she emphasizes the interconnection of drama and music to create a complete operatic performance.  As a coach, Brenda helps singers to discover and reveal the human emotion underlying each song and aria.  Drawing on her experience in both speech-language pathology and performance arts, she also offers training in public speaking. 
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