Mike Ruckles, M.M., SVRS-VT, PAVA-RV

Mike Ruckles (M.M., SVSR, PAVA-RV) is a vocal technician and singing voice specialist based in New York City. He maintains one of the city’s premier voice studios specializing in healthy, transformative technique for Musical Theatre and contemporary commercial singing. His clientele includes Tony, Grammy, and Oscar winners, with students performing in leading roles on Broadway, the West End, national tours, and concert stages across the world.

His methodology integrates a broad spectrum of pedagogical modalities, drawing from Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais, Lessac, Estill, Stemple, Body Mapping (Conable), Laban, and Fitzmaurice Voicework, among others. As an SVS, he collaborates closely with leading NYC laryngologists in the care and rehabilitation of injured voices. Mike is also privileged to work closely with some of the industry’s most respected musical directors, composers and casting directors, allowing him to remain at the vanguard of the latest vocal trends and industry standards. 

He serves as production vocal coach for several long-running Broadway shows and for film/TV. From 2013 to 2016, he was Associate Music Director and conductor of the Tony Award-winning A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder on Broadway.

A frequent lecturer/clinician, Mike was a guest speaker on the topic of vocal rehabilitation for Weill Cornell Medicine’s Center for the Performing Artist, and has lectured on belt voice for Dr. Ingo Titze’s esteemed Summer Vocology Institute. He is a frequent clinician for both the Westminster Voice Pedagogy Institute and the Vocal Pedagogy Professional Workshop (Boston Conservatory/Berklee), and in the summer of 2024, Mike was honored by the National Association of Teachers of Singing as a Master Teacher, serving as a mentor for the NATS intern program.

Mike served as musical director/private voice faculty for the School of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Northern Colorado for eight years before heading East. He studied piano at the University of Southern Colorado before completing a vocal performance degree and M.M. at UNC, training under esteemed pedagogue Dr. Melissa Malde. His thesis, “Aesthetics and Pedagogy of the Belt Voice” was completed in 2002, and has proven influential in revamping the training of Musical Theatre performers, particularly at the university level. Mike has also taught on the voice faculty for the New Studio on Broadway at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, at the New York Film Academy, The Growing Studio (NYC), the Broadway Theatre Project, and the Broadway Collective.

He is a proud member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the Voice Foundation, the New York Singing Teachers’ Association, and the Pan-American Vocology Association, having earned their distinguished “PAVA Recognized Vocologist” designation. 

www.mikeruckles.com @rucklesvoice