Dru Rutledge, Voice Teacher
Marrying classical techniques with a fun, encouraging, student-centered teaching style, Dru Rutledge creates an environment where her students feel safe to shed expectations and notions of 'good' and 'bad' while also feeling centered to dig deep, have fun, and play! Teaching students how to connect with and know their own unique voice and instrument is an aspect of teaching that Dru completely relishes in!
Dru strongly believes that each individual is the expert in their own instrument and that everyone can sing. In helping bring out this self awareness, Dru's students are able to cultivate healthy life-long habits that encourage confidence and the constant pursuit of centering creativity and curiosity.
Equally at home on the stage for opera, music theatre, and cabarets, Dru has had the pleasure of portraying many of the most beloved women in the golden age of musicals and beyond. Locally, you might have seen Dru as Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls, Marian Paroo in The Music Man, Laurey in Oklahoma!, Julie Jordan in Carousel, Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof, and Amalia Balash in She Loves Me (for which she won the Drammy Award for Leading Actress in a Musical).
In addition to her many stage performances, Dru is a sought-after soloist who has performed many times with the New World Symphony in Miami, the Portland Gay Men's Chorus, the Rose City Gay Band, and the Oregon Symphony (on the Distant Worlds" Tour).
Recently Dru has found success and great personal pleasure in creating queer concerts and cabarets, most notably her holiday show Queer Eye for the Magi, with friend and collaborator Jimmy Wilcox.
Dru holds a Masters degree in Opera Performance as well as two Bachelors degrees in Vocal Performance and Theatre. Dru has studied in Florence Italy, Graz Austria, and Bern, Switzerland. She has also performed and taught internationally in Mexico and South Korea.
Dru's pronouns: she/her/they/them
Dru strongly believes that each individual is the expert in their own instrument and that everyone can sing. In helping bring out this self awareness, Dru's students are able to cultivate healthy life-long habits that encourage confidence and the constant pursuit of centering creativity and curiosity.
Equally at home on the stage for opera, music theatre, and cabarets, Dru has had the pleasure of portraying many of the most beloved women in the golden age of musicals and beyond. Locally, you might have seen Dru as Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls, Marian Paroo in The Music Man, Laurey in Oklahoma!, Julie Jordan in Carousel, Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof, and Amalia Balash in She Loves Me (for which she won the Drammy Award for Leading Actress in a Musical).
In addition to her many stage performances, Dru is a sought-after soloist who has performed many times with the New World Symphony in Miami, the Portland Gay Men's Chorus, the Rose City Gay Band, and the Oregon Symphony (on the Distant Worlds" Tour).
Recently Dru has found success and great personal pleasure in creating queer concerts and cabarets, most notably her holiday show Queer Eye for the Magi, with friend and collaborator Jimmy Wilcox.
Dru holds a Masters degree in Opera Performance as well as two Bachelors degrees in Vocal Performance and Theatre. Dru has studied in Florence Italy, Graz Austria, and Bern, Switzerland. She has also performed and taught internationally in Mexico and South Korea.
Dru's pronouns: she/her/they/them
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