About SHURVOICE and Adda Shur

Awaken your singing body and experience a vibrant re-alignment of body, voice, and spirit. Perform with ease, and sing with inspiration.

Are you singing the right repertoire for your voice? Do you know how to practice effectively?  Are you struggling with your voice, or having difficulty attaining a secure and reliable performance method? Do you desire to move into the next level of your singing career?

Healing Voice Coaching

In Adda’s healing voice coaching sessions, you are guided to experience an effortless unity within “the singing body.” Once awakened, this dynamic synergy continues to evolve. Singing becomes joyful again. Inspiration joins with skill, creating performances that appear “natural and effortless.” Your voice becomes optimized, and your singing life begins to transform. Adda focuses on the whole singer: body, mind and spirit. In her dynamic Bel Canto voice training sessions, she uses her healing gifts and expertise to quickly zero in on what holds you back from your optimum performance.

Find out why so many students love their sessions and why this saves them time and money in their vocal training. Adda’s 30 years of teaching expertise in the Italian Bel Canto vocal traditions combined with her special VOGA™ methods will get your singing career to the next level.

About Adda Shur

With performances spanning opera, musical theater, and world music, singing both soprano and mezzo-soprano repertoire, critics have hailed Adda Shur as, a “first rate artist with a fabulous voice,” “passionate and believable” and a “consummate musician”.

Adda Shur, mezzo-soprano opera soloist with Zurich Opera, Switzerland, New Israeli Opera, Tel Aviv, Israeli Philharmonic, Tel Aviv, Israel, Strassbourg Musique Festival, FR, San Antonio Festival/Deutsche Opera Berlin, Cincinnati Opera, Long Beach Opera, et.al. Cantorial Soloist with major USA Synagogues. Voice professor at Levinsky Teacher’s College,Tel Aviv, Israel, The New World School of the Arts, Miami, Barry University, Miami, FL. Voice/Choir Consultant: Palos Verdes Middle School/High School Choirs, California, Hemiola Women’s Choir, Tel Aviv, Sympatia Jazz Choir, Tel Aviv, and other choirs. Adda has a Master’s Degree in Opera Stage Direction; Bachelor of Music Degree, Voice Performance, Indiana University, School of Music, Bloomington, IN. Adda was a voice student of Italian Diva and Bel Canto specialist, Virginia Zeani.

An Opera Soloist

As an Opera Soloist she performed internationally with such opera companies as the New Israeli Opera, Tel Aviv, the Zurich Opera, Switzerland, Long Beach Opera, Deutsche Opera Berlin, and appeared as Concert Soloist with the Israel Philharmonic, San Antonio Symphony, and Rannana Symphionette. She has performed with such noted opera stars Thomas Hampson, Barbara Bonney, the late Gosta Windbergh, Francisco Araiza, Faith Esham, and acclaimed directors such as David Alden and the late Jean Pierre Ponnelle and conductors such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Asher Fisch, and Ralf Weikert.

Some of her roles include… Carmen, Baba The Turk (The Rake’s Progress), Prinz Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), Hansel (Hansel and Gretal), The Beggar Woman (Sweeney Todd), Dritte Dame (Die Zauberflote), Fosca (Fosca – American Premiere, by Gomes), Beppe (L’Amico Fritz), the triple role of Malinka/Etherea/Kunka (Excursions of Mr. Broucek, by Janacek), Tatyana sung in English (Eugene Onegin), Rosalia (West Side Story), Hippolita (Midsummer Night’s Dream), Mother Larina sung in Russian, (Evegney Onegin) and Zulma (L’Italiana in Algeri). As concert soloist, she has performed in works by Manuel De Falla, Darius Milhaud, Leonard Bernstein, Charles Davidson, Bonia Shur, and Marc Lavry, and has produced and directed Israeli and Jewish Art music.

A Cantorial Soloist

Cantorial Soloist in Synagogues and other organizations: Soloist in concerts and recordings of original Jewish Music of her late father, Bonia Shur, composer of Jewish Synagogue music and Professor Emeritus of Liturgical Arts at The Hebrew Union College (HUC), Cincinnati, Ohio.

In Crossover, she has collaborated with Itaal Shur, winner of two Grammy Awards, and sang vocals in his “Divine Intervention” from the Aural Exciter Dance Album. Her solo album “Improvisations on Sacred Chant” with instrumental accompaniment by Itaal Shur, features Adda singing live improvisations based on Hebrew and Hindu melodies, with Adda singing in Hebrew, Sanskrit and English.

Adda Shur, mezzo-soprano sings the aria of Princesse de Bouillon, “Acerba Volutta” from the 2nd act of Cilea’s opera, “Adriana Lecouvreur” Fall, 2014.

Adda has produced, directed and performed in chamber recitals and multi-media concerts in Europe, Israel and America featuring music by Israeli and Jewish composers. She has a collection of music written by leading 20th century Israeli and Jewish Composers, including that of her late father, BONIA SHUR. As a Cantorial Soloist, Adda has sung in concerts and High Holy Days in major Synagogues across America. Her innovative recital: “Music and Songs from the Camps and Theresienstadt” is often replayed on Israel’s National Classical Music Radio Station, Kol Yisrael, on Holocaust Memorial Day.

Contact Adda (310-963-7194) For a Free Consultation!