Internationally renowned, Adèle Paxton, PPRNCM, has sung as a professional classical artist for over thirty years, and has taught voice for twenty. Also with a MS in Counselor Education, she integrates her functional and artistic knowledge of breath, voice, and singing, with mindful and therapeutic techniques in a holistic, person-centered, and safe space.

As a performer she has won many national and international singing awards. These include the Royal Over-Seas League International Gold Medal, Society of Women Musicians’ Award, and Commonwealth Musician of the Year. She has performed extensively in oratorio, orchestral, concert, opera, and recital repertoire. Performances include with José Carreras at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, at Glyndebourne, Aldeburgh, Wexford, and Berkshire Festivals, at Westminster Abbey, at St. Paul’s Cathedral, at London South Bank concert halls, at Alice Tully Hall in New York, and at major venues elsewhere in Europe, South America, and the USA.

Adèle has been on the faculty at Central Connecticut State University since 1998, where she teaches voice to music majors, to minors, and to graduate students. She has also taught young professional international singers at the Tiroler Opern Programm in Austria. At her private voice studio in Connecticut, she specializes in therapeutic voicework where clients use voicework to access deeper emotional awareness, find balance, and inner personal healing. Adèle believes in the possibility of vocal strength and health throughout the lifespan, and that voicework can be a resource for everyone who chooses to work this way, regardless of singing talent.