Learn to sing alongside a small group, taught by Dan Ryan.
Same technique work as a private lesson — breath, tone, range — but split across a class capped at 6 students, so it costs less and nobody is on the spot the whole hour. For a lot of people the company is half the reason to come.
Lessons are at Faith Presbyterian Church in Sun City. If you would rather start one to one, private voice lessons are the other option, and the free choir has no cap and no cost at all.
- Class size
- Capped at 6 students
- Length
- 45 minutes, weekly
- Cost
- $98 a month
$26.13 a class - Where
- Faith Presbyterian Church
16000 N Del Webb Blvd, Sun City
Twenty years directing a church choir, now teaching voice full time.
Dan grew up in the south suburbs of Chicago, where a seventh-grade teacher first put a guitar in his hands to play for Friday Mass. He was accompanying singers at his church by the age of fourteen, and after moving to Arizona in 1983 spent the following decades leading praise teams and choirs and teaching voice, guitar and piano at Nazarene and Presbyterian churches — twenty of those years leading music at Heritage Presbyterian Church in Glendale.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music Education from Arizona State University and spent fourteen years teaching general music and choir in the Isaac and Peoria school districts, guiding students aged ten to fourteen through vocal health, range and performance preparation. He retired from the classroom in 2021 and now teaches voice privately, still singing in ensembles as time allows.
His lessons start with listening, not correcting — building comfort and breath support first, then adding technique in small, repeatable steps. Prefer one to one? Private voice lessons are the other option. He also teaches beginner to intermediate guitar.
Dan RyanVoice Teacher, Musicality Music Academy
“Dan’s teaching style stood out immediately — rather than stopping us mid-song, he let us finish before offering thoughtful, encouraging suggestions that built our confidence instead of just correcting mistakes. He leads with patience, kindness, and genuine enthusiasm, and has a gift for helping singers of every background feel valued. I wholeheartedly recommend him.”
— Priscilla Hoskins
Group classes build toward real repertoire, not just exercises — this group spent a term learning Thomas Tallis’s “If Ye Love Me,” a Renaissance motet, before performing it together.
Singing togetherThis group performing Thomas Tallis’s “If Ye Love Me.”
One weekly 45-minute class, capped at 6 students, $98 a month. 45 classes a year, billed evenly across twelve months — works out at $26.13 a class.
$35 one-time registration when you start. First class $25, nothing to sign.
Book your first class.
$25, one class, nothing to sign. Tell us what you would like to work on.