Eftihia has been providing private voice and piano lessons to youth and adults in Chicago and all along  the North Shore since 1992. Drawing on her extensive performing experience and educational background, she encourages and challenges her students so that they can attain high levels of musicianship.

 

From 2002 through 2007, she held the position of Choral Director at Chicago International Charter School Northtown Academy and its predecessor, Good Counsel High School.  As choral director, she was instrumental in the production of several musicals to rave reviews.  In 2004, Eftihia accepted the position of Vocal Instructor and Choral Director for the Orpheus Hellenic Folklore Society, and she also became the Founder and Director of the Chicago Hellenic Choir. She also has several years of experience teaching music and the Greek language at private Greek schools throughout the Chicago metropolitan area.  

 

In 2006 Eftihia founded Odeion School of Music, a private music school in Skokie IL. As the Director of Odeion, Eftihia oversees the music education of hundreds of students, she designs and develops creative  classes and programs, and she also teaches voice, piano, music theory, opera performance, and more. In conjunction with her work at Odeion, Eftihia is also an Adjunct Music Professor at Wilbur Wright College and Olive Harvey College, two of Chicago's City Colleges, where she teaches Music Theory, Applied Voice, and Music Appreciation courses, as well as McHenry County College where she is the Choral Director and teaches Applied Voice.

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Eftihia works with beginning and professional singers as well as actors and public speakers and guides them towards correct vocal technique and maintaining vocal health. Her extensive research and experience with vocal disorders and their prevention and correction has helped numerous singers throughout the USA and Europe. Eftihia's teaching areas of study, research, and application include:

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• Physical & Psychological Vocal Development

• Vocal Techniques for Children and Adolescents

• Boys' Changing Voices                              

• The "Voice-Mind-Body" Connections 

• Vocal Techniques for Aging Voices                                           

• Voice Therapy Techniques 

• Prevention & Correction of Vocal Disorders                              

• Public Speaking Techniques

• Classical vs Contemporary Vocal Techniques

• Advanced Stage Presence Techniques

• Vocal Pedagogy Seminars

• Choral & Vocal Pedagogy Techniques K-12

• Creative Music Education Techniques K-12 

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Eftihia's students have been extremely successful with their music studies. Numerous of her students have been inspired to pursue music in higher education and have achieved fulfilling and rewarding careers in music performance and other related fields. Eftihia accepts new private students throughout the year. She is also available for seminars and master classes.

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Feel free to get in touch with Eftihia for any music education and performance related inquiries.