Adrienne Osborn
Owner, Founder, and Mentor Vocal Coach

Adrienne is a contemporary-music vocal instructor, and IVTOM mentor teacher and board member, who has been teaching voice since 2009. In the early 2010’s, she also achieved certification as a Live Music Method coach through Tom Jackson Productions in Nashville.
Adrienne excels in bringing a technical approach to singing, and believes in building a large vocal skills toolbox. She helps vocalists reduce tension, sing efficiently, develop power, improve tone, sing appropriate for genre, gain consistency, and sing smoothly across their entire range without “gear-shifting” across bridges. She loves creating an encouraging, supportive, safe space for late-teen and adult students of all ages to laugh, explore new possibilities, and enjoy their success.
As a performance coach, Adrienne teaches stage performance skills to adult clients and full bands, and together with Performance High’s artist development coach Justin Leighton Long, is putting the finishing touches on a book for lead vocalists of contemporary music called “A Show with a Capital S.” Starting with the question of what an audience actually expects from your show, the book helps artists answer that question and then learn how to deliver a show that meets and exceeds expectations. Including both high-level artist development topics and down-to-earth pointers on moving and talking on stage, the book helps artists understand how to put on shows that create die-hard fans.
Justin and Adrienne perform with two bands that typically sell 300-500 tickets per local show, multiple times per month: The Petty Nicks Experience, a Tom Petty / Stevie Nicks tribute; and Disco Revue, a disco cover band.
Adrienne is also the creator of Nail Every Note, an online vocal training program for contemporary vocalists with over 200 video lessons and exercises. In 2010 she released an instructional 2-DVD set entitled Zen of the Stage: Performing in the Zone to help people deal with stage fright.
In a previous life, Adrienne graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Computer Science. She worked as a software and database developer, and later a project manager, for dot-com startups and B2B tech companies before switching careers into music. She was also a national champion waterskier and still holds a 20-year-old Western Regional women’s slalom record.
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Education and Accreditations
- B.S. in Science, Technology, and Society with a focus in Computer Science from Stanford University
- Studied CCM voice with IVTOM president Mary Ann Kehler, IVTOM founder Dean Kaelin, and Brett Manning teachers
- Accredited as a Mentor Teacher of Mix Singing by the International Voice Teachers of Mix (IVTOM)
- Live Music Method teacher certification, Tom Jackson Productions in Nashville
- Functional Vocal Training, Commercial Music Institute at Shenandoah University
- Meredith Colby’s Neuro-Vocal Method certification
- Fourteen years of instrument lessons (bass, piano, drums)
Bands
- A cappella groups: Counterpoint (all-female a cappella at Stanford University) and the Sweet Adelines (Orlando, FL chapter)
- Founder or co-founder of The Fever (wedding band), Dois (Brazilian and Latin jazz), Teal & Tangent (dark electronic pop), The Legend Makers (live band karaoke) and Adrienne O (original pop/rock).
- Lead singer or co-lead singer of The Fever, Dois, Teal & Tangent, The Legend Makers, Adrienne O, Girls on Top! (funk/motown), Urban Dance Theory (top 40 covers), Guitar Villians (live band karaoke), The Petty Nicks Experience, Disco Revue, Tunisia
- Keyboardist for Guitar Villains
- Bassist for Driving Karma (rock), Melissa Ivey (rock), Urban Dance Theory (top 40 covers), Cody Qualls and the New Ancients (original pop/rock), Pamela Machala (original pop/jazz), her own band, Adrienne O (original pop/rock), the Diamond Empire Band (wedding band), Tunisia (dance), Journey Church
- Her band Adrienne O has played at the Boulder Theatre, the Bluebird Theatre, the Fox Theatre, the Oriental Theatre, the Gothic Theatre, Coors Field, Hard Rock Cafe, the Buffalo Rose, Summit Music Hall, and many other medium-sized Colorado venues