Originally hailing from the Los Angeles area, Andrea Randall-Luyties lived in Houston for nearly 20 years before relocating to New York City in 2022. With thirty-two years of performing experience and over twenty-five years of teaching experience, she offers one-on-one, individualized instruction in functional technique for healthy belting and legit musical theatre, pop/rock, singer/songwriter, and various CCM song styles, incorporating physical awareness of the student's instrument while encouraging them to engage in the vulnerability of emotional storytelling. She is also the founder of Singing Through Trauma, where adult clients use somatic singing as a healing modailty to overcome life's hardships and/or past traumatic events in tandem with a licensed therapist.
The majority of Andrea's private studio is made up of high school&endash;aged students preparing to go into the rigorous process of auditioning for college programs. Her students have won and placed in multiple categories in every NATS event we have ever entered in the NYC, Greater Houston area, and Texoma Regional competitions. Every year, her students earn over $100,000 in scholarships, and many of her pupils go on to be accepted into prestigious BFA and music programs nationwide. Alumni students can be found performing on professional Broadway and opera stages nationwide, as well as in national tours, on cruise liners, in recording studios, and on local and regional theatre stages.
Andrea recently completed her Master of Arts in Music Psychology in Education, Performance, and Well-Being with the University of Sheffield in England. She also holds a Master of Arts in Theatre degree, a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, and received eight years of undergraduate training in vocal performance, vocal pedagogy, theatre, and dance from California State University at Los Angeles, University of La Verne, and Citrus College in Southern California. She has had many opportunities to travel and learn about varying styles of music from all over the world.
Andrea has performed such lead operatic roles as the Countess in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, The Dew Fairy in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, and Marietta in Victor Herbert's Naughty Marietta. Also an accomplished performer of musical theatre repertoire, she has performed in many musicals as well. Favorites include: Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Chicago, The Sound of Music, Into the Woods, and Carousel.
When she's not teaching voice, Andrea can be found pursuing her other love: directing musical theatre productions. Favorite directoral credits include Carrie: the Musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Next to Normal, Into the Woods, Les Misérables, Beauty and the Beast, Little Shop of Horrors, and Guys and Dolls.
In addition to her theatrical work, Mrs. Luyties is a seasoned choral performer, having sung with the Crystal Cathedral Choir under the direction of Donald Neuen (on the internationally televised show Hour of Power with Reverend Robert Schueller). In the summer of 2000, she traveled to Austria and Italy with the acclaimed Citrus Singers and was a soloist for the Stadtgründungsfest (City Foundation Festival) in Munich, Germany. She has also been recognized for her solo work with European ensembles and was a member of the Houston Masterworks Chorus.
Furthermore, Mrs. Luyties is on faculty at Long Island University Brooklyn where she teaches private voice lessons and courses in vocal pedagogy and Musical Theatre. Andrea was on faculty with Somatic Voicework™ the LoVetri Method in residence at Baldwin Wallace University for three years and is a member in good standing of the Pan American Vocology Association, NATS, and MTEA.
Her studio is located in her home in the Bay Ridge area of Brooklyn, New York, where she lives with her two teenage daughters, two cats, and 60-lbs goldendoodle.