"I am here to be a revealer of Truth, Light, and Love.
All that I do is in service of this deep intent; my voice the highest expression."

    Heather is a natural born singer, songwriter, performer, conductor, teacher, healer, and group facilitator.

    As a singer, songwriter we have most recently had the pleasure of experiencing Heather's soulful voice with her a cappella quartet SIRENZ and her trio Dis Moi.  Long before the inception of this trio, Heather refined her ear with numerous small a cappella ensembles, some of them being Sound Advice, a 6-voice jazz ensemble; Madrigaia, a 5-voice early music ensemble of Italian Madrigals, French Chansons, and English Motets; Nectar, a 6-voice ensemble of Balkan vocal music.  Vocal harmony has always enlivened Heather's spirit.  She sang in harmony with her mother from the time she was 4 years old, and since then has sought out every opportunity she could to blend her voice with others.  

    As a soloist, Heather has sung lead vocals for Latin bands Soulita and Havana Jazz.  For five years she sang jazz professionally with the Steve Abrams trio, and has played numerous lead roles in musical productions.  In College she studied Classical Vocal Performance, Social Work, and Spanish, receiving her B.A. Degree from Pacific University in 1997.
      
    After College Heather went on to teach music to K-6 graders in private and public schools, simultaneously running an after school tutorial program for "at risk" youth in two of Santa Cruz's  low- income housing facilities.  After 6 years of teaching children, she certified as a Kali Ray Tri-yoga instructor, and taught students about the nourishment to be found within the one pointed concentration on the breath, body, and mind.  This form of moving meditation also opened Heather to her own true calling.  

    Currently, Heather teaches private voice lessons, offers healing sessions, leads singing circles and conducts the 15 voice choir, Women with Wings.  She is as gifted at leading hundreds of people in singing or chanting together harmoniously, as she is at guiding a single student in discovering the intricacies and nuances of their own voice.

     Heather is continuing her vocal studies with Silvia Nakkach at the Vox Mundi School of the Voice.  She is enjoying the depths of vocal meditation though the use of seed syllables, mantras, and Indian ragas.  She continues to write gorgeous and inspiring songs for her choir, her new trio that is forming, and her own solo voice.

    Some of Heather's influences are her mom, Eva Cassidy, Bobby McFerrin, John Denver, Judy Garland, Take 6, Bob Reid, James Taylor, Indigo Girls, Jennifer Berezan, Sarah McLaughlin, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Stevie Wonder, Celia Cruz, Sade, Sheila Chandra, India Arie, Kitka, Zap Mama, Paul Simon, Tina Malia, Rhiannon, and many, many more.  She has also been greatly influenced by music from other cultures, particularly Afro-Brazilian, African, Latin, Balkan, Indian, and Native American.

    Other influences include the natural beauty that surrounded her childhood home in Aptos, Ca., the ocean, the dolphins, the Big Sur Coast, the Colorado Rocky mountains, the trees, the wind, the alpine meadows, the hawks and eagles, Joshua Tree, and the glorious sunshine.  Most of Heather's songs have been written while surrounded by the beauty of nature.  She has also been influenced by the healing journey of her body temple, emotional and spiritual growth, her loving, artistic community of friends and family, the depths of intimacy, and her spiritual community at Inner Light Ministries.  Other influences include the many cultures she has experienced on her travels, which have expanded her heart and mind, and filled her soul with magic!

"I am so grateful to the Creator for this blessed experience we call life!
And for the opportunity to express Her beauty through song!"