Sarah Beth Pfeifer

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About

SB is an artist and teacher based in NYC. She has been singing, acting, and performing for most of her life - from playing Paul Bunyon in the 5th grade musical all the way to The Lightning Thief on Broadway, to most recently narrating nearly 100 audiobooks and counting.

While SB's love of storytelling, of musicals, and of belting really high (!) have been constants throughout her life, it was her work with Marisa, as a singing student and as a member of Constellation Chor, that taught her the true meaning of creative, artistic flow. It modeled a commitment to artistry and expression that SB had yearned for and often found lacking in the mainstream "showbiz" training that preceded it. As a singing teacher, SB guides her students on a path to their own wild, creative, TRUE expression, tailored to their artistic and personal goals.

As a part of Constellation, SB performed in Marisa's Desire/Divinity Project, sang with the New York Philharmonic, traveled to Greece to appear in the Vovousa Music Festival and met weekly at Judson Memorial Church to practice and discern the Core Sounding improvisation practice.  As an actor, she appeared on Broadway in The Lightning Thief, in the national tour of Legally Blonde, and in Fun Home at Theaterworks Hartford, among many other credits. Her library of audiobooks can be found on audible.com, and her voice has appeared in national commercial campaigns. She has completed her Level One Vocal De-Armoring Diploma. 

Testimony

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"When I meet with SB, I know I'm where I want to be on my journey with my voice. I've spent many years bypassing my body and my voice for the sake of performance, and the practice of dropping in with SB and meeting myself where I am has allowed me to really slow down, listen, and bring my whole self into singing. This feels like the beginning of something much bigger for me, and I'm looking forward to witnessing and transforming in this sweet community."
- Morgan Bach

"Working with SB to develop a deeper relationship to myself as a vocally expressive being has been a great gift to me over the past few months. Every session has an easy flow, even amidst intense emotion, SB is there carefully witnessing, keeping breath flowing through the room. There is laughter, tears, all kinds of indescribable sensations, alive in our sessions. While it is not “therapy” is it highly therapeutic for me. It is a space I feel I can be held and witnessed wholly, without expectation or pressure. I cant recommend SB enough. I am so grateful to have her as a teacher."
- Lilly Green​

From Sarah Beth:

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In our early musical theatre training, so many of us learn to imitate rather than create...to perform and to portray, but not to express anything that feels really true.

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What if, instead of beginning from who we wished we were or what we wished we sounded like, we begin by truly settling into what IS - noticing our bodies, our thoughts, our emotions and being with them without needing to "fix" or change anything. What if we use our imaginations and curiosity as guides, rather than our judging minds.

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Our voices, free to meet music in an un-premeditated way, might surprise us with qualities of sound we never imagined ourselves making. Character and emotions called forth by the material can flow in and through us, unplanned and unimpeded. We can then truly learn and feel what it is to be interpretive artists, singers and actors, inside of creative flow.