Voice Lessons

Lyric Soprano Luan Ewbank holds a Church Music Degree with a Vocal Principle from William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri.  She has been actively involved with singing and theatrical presentations since the age of three.  She has been fortunate to sing in top college and community choirs, ensembles, as a soloist touring both domestically and internationally, and as a professional demo recording artist.  For the past thirty-six years, she has worked with children, youth, and adults in various aspects of private coaching and vocal instruction. 

She and her husband, Kevin, moved to McKinney in 1998 and have two children.  She began teaching in the McKinney area in the fall of 1998 and for the past 22 years she has taught within the McKinney Independent School District in both the high school and middle school choral programs. Her students have been successful in obtaining auditions and scholarships to prestigious colleges and universities including Julliard, University of Westminster, Berklee School of Music, OCU, OSU, SMU and UNT. She has had students progress in the Young Arts Foundation competition receiving national awards and mainstage performances.  She has been proud to have students successfully compete each year in the Solo and Ensemble competitions previously at the state level and now progressing to the MISD’s Honors Recital.  She has also had students selected to participate in the Texas All Region Choirs and sixteen years of All State Choir members.

Kaycee Ware Thomas, Mezzo Soprano, is well versed as a voice and oboe performer and pedagogue. Kaycee is currently the Adjunct Instructor of Oboe at Southeastern Oklahoma State University and was previously the Adjunct Instructor of Oboe at Hillsdale College, a position she held for seven years. She has also maintained a private voice and oboe studio for over 20 years. Her students have been accepted to prestigious music schools such as Northwestern University, Cincinnati Conservatory, and Manhattan School of Music. Kaycee has taught several vocalists who have been accepted into universities on full, or near full, tuition scholarships for both Vocal Performance and Vocal Music Education, while under her instruction. Her voice students have been invited to the Washington National Opera Institute, New York Pop’s Annual Gala at Carnegie Hall, Interlochen for Musical Theater, in addition to receiving 2nd place in the TMTA state voice competition. They have consistently earned placement into the Texas All-State Choir and the MISD Vocal Honor’s Recital.

Kaycee holds a MM from the University of Michigan in Oboe Performance, where she was a Walgreen Fellow, and she was on scholarship at the University of Oklahoma with dual performance degrees (BM) in both voice and oboe. Kaycee has held apprenticeships at the Seagle Music Colony, Amarillo Opera, Opera in the Ozarks, the MasterWorks Festival, and Light Opera of Oklahoma. She has been featured as mezzo and oboe soloist in chamber series throughout Michigan, such as Ann Arbor Symphony’s Chamber Concerts, Green Wood Chamber Series, Nardin Park Concert Series, and Strings on the Bay.

For more information, please visit:  www.kayceewarethomas.com