About Ari

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Founder of Ari’s Voice Studio, Ariadne Mahadeo is a singer and songwriter based in the Boston area. She started her music education in the Cranford, NJ school system in choir and orchestra and taking private piano lessons starting at age 6. In highschool she was in Concert Choir and ever-competitive Madrigals Choir, and started taking Classical Voice lessons in her Sophomore year to further develop her skill. When considering colleges, Ariadne turned her attention towards learning Contemporary Voice at Berklee College of Music.

Now, Ariadne has a Bachelor of Music in Professional Music — with concentrations in Performance and Contemporary Writing & Production — and a Minor in Teaching Contemporary Voice. She has performed at the Berklee Performance Center, The Lilypad, City Winery, The Burren, The Garrison, and more popular Boston venues. She sings mostly R&B, Pop, Rock, Neo-Soul, and Folk music, but has a passion for all genres and what they can teach the singer. Ariadne released her debut single “Lost at Sea” on all streaming platforms in 2025 with an EP on the way in 2026.

Ari started teaching two years into college. While offering her expertise to friends and family, she grew interested in teaching private lessons professionally. She took “The Private Studio Teacher” a course where she taught lessons for observation from the class, and learned more about how to run the business side of a private studio. She then decided to pursue a Minor in Teaching Contemporary Voice, taking all the Vocal Pedagogy classes Berklee had to offer and soaking it all up. Ever since she started she has had a burning passion for teaching, helping each student to find and develop their unique voice.

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My Mission /Philosophy

My goals in teaching voice are to help singers better understand the voice as an instrument, empower them with new skills/techniques, and inspire them to improve and love their unique voice. I use a combination of approaches from different methodologies. This is how I break down the functionality of the voice:

Breath - coordination between muscles of inhalation and exhalation

  • slow exhalation should be practiced while singing and outside of singing

  • can practice slow exhalation with a whiney groan or vocal fry 

Phonation -  the balance of breath and vibration of the vocal folds

  • vibrato and straight-toned singing should be practiced

Registration - chest, head, and mixed voice

  • Singers should master chest, head, and then mixed voice by vocalizing with exercises and repertoire which challenge those registers

Resonance - affected by registration, vowels and placement (where the sound is escaping the body).

Posture - a go-to upright posture can look like this:

  • feet shoulder-width apart

  • if needed, do a ragdoll forward-fold to decompress spine and align body for singing

  • chest open and shoulders relaxed

  • belly loose and relaxed

  • pelvis tilted slightly forward

*I believe that there is no “correct” singing posture, but that singers should push themselves to sing in all types of positions to feel what muscles are worked during phonation. However having a go-to upright singing posture can be helpful for practice time.*

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