Voice Teacher Toolbox

Welcome to Voice Teacher Toolbox

Where singing teacher and speech-language pathologist meet to bring engaging courses to the voice teaching community.


Our first course offering is "Teaching Singing Through Puberty: Ages 10-16"





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Noel Smith


Noel Smith is an accomplished singer, voice teacher, producer, pianist, and coach. Her singers can be found working on Broadway, (Wicked, Beetlejuice, Frozen, Rent, Waitress, Mrs. Doubtfire) and Broadway tours (Hadestown, Jesus Christ Superstar, Janis Joplin the Musical, Elf, Baby Shark, Mamma Mia and Sister Act). She works with professional child actor/singers and prepares students for entry into top undergraduate theater and pop programs across the country.

Noel is a vocal habilitator and collaborates with Speech Language Pathologists in Boston and New York, to retrain injured singers back to healthy careers. Noel is a presenter on vocal health and healthy belting for the adolescent and was a featured presenter for the NATS National Convention and The Voice Foundation.

Noel's voice and songs have been featured in numerous Hollywood films, TV shows and AAA video games worldwide. Noel is in demand as a session singer and adds lead vocals, top lines, harmonies to many projects. She is an accomplished pianist, vocal producer and co-founder of New England's Premier Recording Choir, Vox Futura. She is a voting member of the Recording Academy's Grammy Awards and a member of ASCAP.

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Barbara Wilson Arboleda


Barbara Wilson Arboleda has spent her life and professional career focused on one thing: helping others find and use their voice. Working with people's voices allows her to help them open up possibilities of vision and creation. She believes that the voice, creativity, and communication all have meaning and cares about helping people to improve that for themselves. 


Barbara is a speech-language pathologist, a singing teacher, an artist (as Morgan Duran), and the co-host of the "Living Forward" podcast. Her work has been published in several professional journals and textbooks, including the Journal of Singing, Journal of Voice, Pediatric Voice Disorders and she has presented at the NATS workshop, where she was a speaker. 


Barbara has a special interest in the way stress and anxiety impacts the voice and works to help others overcome those challenges through lessons, therapy, courses, and workshops. Through her nurturing, supportive services, she helps people access their voice and creative vision so they can live a more fulfilling, empowered life.