The Vocal Mastery Program
Level III - Advanced
October 22, 2026 - September 2027
Registration closes 11/5
You have learned the Method.
Now you master it.
The advanced curriculum of the Cole Vocal Method. One full year at the highest level of vocal training ever offered outside a private studio.
Thursdays, 3:00 to 4:30 pm ET. October 22, 2026 to September 30, 2027.
Enrollment closes October 22.
One window to join per year.
Vocal Mastery Program II - Intermediate is a pre-requisite to take this program.
ABOUT VOCAL MASTERY PROGRAM
The Cole Vocal Method - Advanced Level III
Where a strong voice becomes world-class.
You know what this method does, because you have felt it in your own instrument. You have felt the compensation loosen its grip, the core find its strength, and the ceiling you once accepted begin to lift. You have lived it. And you know there is more.
There is a level of singing the world remembers. It is the voice that fills a room before a single word is sung, the tone an audience feels in the body before the mind can name it. Those voices are built, at a depth of training most singers never reach. That is the work of Level III.
Level I built the foundation. Level II built the voice. Level III builds the mastery of a vocal artist at the level of the world’s greatest singers.
If you have completed VMP Level II, this is exactly what you have been working toward.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Here is what your month looks like inside the Vocal Mastery Program III.
The Advanced Masterclasses
Twenty-four live masterclasses with Cari, on Zoom, each one building on the last. This is where the advanced curriculum is taught in real time, with your voice in the room and Cari’s ear on it. Thursdays, 3:00 to 4:30 pm ET.
The Coaching & Live Q&A Calls
Seven live coaching and Q&A calls across the year, where the questions your instrument is raising get answered directly by Cari. You bring what is coming up in your practice, and you leave with a clear next step.
Level III Exercise Library
175+ advanced CVM exercises, the complete Level III library, unavailable anywhere outside this program. Recorded and yours to keep, so you can train with them long after the year ends.
The Six Phases
Level III moves through six phases, CVM Parts IX through XIV, that teach the Cole Vocal Method Level III that carry the instrument from strong to world-class.
- The Toned Voice
- The Vibrant Voice
- The Radiant Voice
- The Commanding Voice
- The Dynamic Voice
- The World-Class Voice.
The Advanced Breathwork Hub
A dedicated hub for the advanced breath work that powers everything at this level, the support, control, and stamina a world-class voice runs on. Yours to return to whenever you want to deepen the foundation.
The Advanced Mastery Toolkit
The advanced tools and resources that support your training between masterclasses, built for singers working at the top of the method. Everything you need to practice with intention on your own.
The Vocal Mastery Library
Your full library of Vocal Mastery resources, gathered in one place, ready whenever you need to reference, review, or go deeper.
The Advanced Singer Collective
Your community of advanced singers inside the Voice YOUniversity. This is where you train alongside serious singers doing the same work, share the road, and never do the year alone.
Your Voice YOUniversity Seat
Your seat inside the Voice YOUniversity for the full year, with portal and community access. The program stays yours after it ends, so you keep the work for good.
What’s Inside: The Advanced Curriculum
30+ live sessions across the year. Thursdays, 3:00 to 4:30 pm ET.
Level III moves through six advanced phases, that carry the instrument from strong to world-class.
What is included:
INSIDE THE COURSE CURRICULUM
The Vocal Mastery Program - Advanced Curriculum
VMP Schedule: October 22, 2026 – September 30, 2027
Time: 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET on Thursdays *occasional days as marked below
Time Zones: 3:00 pm ET / 2:00 pm CT / 1:00 pm MT / 12:00 pm PT
Europe, Australia + Asia: 8:00 pm GMT / 8:00 am AEST
The Advanced Curriculum
One hundred and seventy five-plus exercises that build vocal mastery for advanced-level singers. The highest level of the method. For the singer who has done the work of Levels I and II and is ready to go all the way.
Level III moves through six phases, each one taking the instrument further than anything that came before.
Phase One: The Toned Voice
Where the work of the intermediate curriculum settles into the body and the tone becomes something the singer no longer has to reach for. The instrument has been built. Now the tone is refined — clarified, deepened, made consistent across every register and every dynamic. This is the voice that is simply, unmistakably itself.
Phase Two: The Vibrant Voice
Where the overtone series fully blooms. The voice that was resonant becomes vibrant — alive with harmonics that color every note, that give the sound a life and presence that carries into the furthest corners of any room. This is the voice that makes people lean forward before they understand why.
Phase Three: The Radiant Voice
Where power and presence become effortless. The radiant voice does not push — it emanates. It has an inner light that comes from the complete integration of breath, support, resonance, and artistry. Singers at this phase describe feeling, for the first time, that the voice is not something they are producing — but something they are releasing.
Phase Four: The Commanding Voice
The voice that owns the room. Not through volume or force but through presence — the complete physical and artistic authority of a singer who has built the instrument all the way through and knows, in the body, how to use it. This is the voice that silences a room before the first note ends.
Phase Five: The Dynamic Voice
Where the full range of expression becomes available. Soft to powerful, intimate to soaring, whispered to full voice — all of it accessible, all of it controlled, all of it in service of the music and the moment. The dynamic voice does not have a default setting. It has infinite range.
Phase Six: The World-Class Voice
The integration of everything. The voice that has been built from the foundation to the summit — healthy, resilient, powerful, resonant, vibrant, commanding, dynamic, and fully expressive. The voice that turns heads. That stops rooms. That makes other singers lean over and ask: how did you do that?
This is where the method ends. And where the singer truly begins.
30 Masterclasses · 7 Coaching + Q&A Calls · 175+ Advanced Exercises · Thursdays, 3:00–4:30pm ET · October 22, 2026 – September 30, 2027
Month 1 - The Strengthened Voice
Month 1: October – The Strengthened Voice
- Class 1: CVM Advanced Training Masterclass 1 – 10/22 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET. Level III: CVM™ Flexibility Strength – Advanced Yodels, Part 1
- Class 2: CVM™ Advanced Training Masterclass 2 – 10/29 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET. Level III: CVM™ Flexibility Strength – Advanced Yodels, Part 2
Month 2 - The Powered Voice
Month 2: November – The Powered Voice
- Class 3: CVM™ Advanced Training Masterclass 3 – 11/5 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET. Level III: CVM™ Advanced Aspirates
- Class 4: CVM™ Advanced Training Masterclass 4 – 11/12 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET. Level III: CVM™ Advanced One Pitch with Aspirates
- Class 5: Coaching Call 1 / Q&A – 11/19 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:15 pm ET
Month 3: The Vibrant Voice
Month 3: December – The Vibrant Voice
- Class 6: CVM™ Advanced Training Masterclass 5 -12/3 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET. Level III: CVM™ The Manuel Garcia’s Advanced Scales 4
- Class 7: CVM™ Advanced Training Masterclass 6 -12/10 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET. Level III: CVM™ The Manuel Garcia’s Advanced Scales 5
Month 4: The Flexible Voice
Month 4: January – THE FLEXIBLE VOICE
- Class 8: CVM™ Advanced Training Masterclass 7 – 1/14 (Thurs) 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET. Level III: CVM™ The Manuel Garcia’s Advanced Scales 6
- Class 9: CVM™ Advanced Training Masterclass 8 – 1/21 (Thurs) /3:00 – 4:30 pm ET. Level III: CVM™ The Manuel Garcia’s Advanced Scales 7
Month 5: The Radiant Voice
Month 5: February – The Radiant Voice
- Class 10: CVM™ Advanced Training Masterclass 9 – 2/4 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET. Level III: CVM™ Master Vocal Exs – Advanced Part 4
Class 11: CVM™ Advanced Training Masterclass 10 – 2/11 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET. Level III: CVM™ Master Vocal Exs – Advanced Part 5 - Class 12: Coaching Call 4 / Q&A – 2/18 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:15 pm ET
Month 6: The Full Voice
Month 6: March – The Full Voice
- Class 13: CVM™ Advanced Training Masterclass 11 – 3/4 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET. Level III: CVM™ Master Vocal Exs – Advanced Part 6
- Class 14: CVM™ Advanced Training Masterclass 12 – 3/18 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET. Level III: CVM™ Master Vocal Exs – Advanced Part 7
- Class 15: Coaching Call 4 / Q&A – 3/11 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:15 pm ET
Month 7: The Commanding Voice
Month 7: April – The Commanding Voice
- Class 16: CVM™ Advanced Training Masterclass 13 – 4/8 ((Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET. Level III: CVM™ – Nadia Boulanger Scales Part 1
- Class 17: CVM™ Advanced Training Masterclass 14 – 4/15 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET. Level III: CVM™ – Nadia Boulanger Scales Part 2
- Class 18: Coaching Call 6 / Q&A – 4/22 (Thurs) 3:00 – 4:15 pm ET
Month 8: The Soaring Voice
Month 8: May – The Soaring Voice
- Class 19: CVM™ Advanced Training Masterclass 15 – 5/6 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET. Level III: CVM™ – Nadia Boulanger Part 3
- Class 20: CVM™ Advanced Training Masterclass 16 – 5/20 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET. Level III: CVM™ – Manuel Garcia Scales Part 8
- Class 21: Coaching Call 7 / Q&A – 5/13 (Thurs) 3:00 – 4:15 pm ET
Month 9: The Dynamic Voice
Month 9: June – The Dynamic Voice
- Class 21: CVM™ Advanced Training Masterclass 17 – 6/10 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET. Level III: CVM™ Advanced scales – Messa Di Voce 1
- Class 22: CVM™ Advanced Training Masterclass 18 – 6/17 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET. Level III: CVM™ Advanced scales – Messa Di Voce 2
Month 10: The Seasoned Voice
Month 10: July – The Seasoned Voice
- Class 23: CVM™ Advanced Training Masterclass 19 – 7/8 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET. Level III: CVM™ Vocal Fry, Portamento, Slide, Glissando
- Class 24: CVM™ Advanced Training Masterclass 20 – 7/15 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET. Level III: CVM™ Manuel Garcias Part 9
- Class 25: Coaching Call 7 / Q&A – 7/22 (Thurs) 3:00 – 4:15 pm ET
Month 11: The World-Class Voice
Month 11: August – The World-Class Voice
- Class 26: CVM™ Advanced Training Masterclass 21 – 8/5 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET. Level III: CVM™ Advanced scales – Mastering Endurance
- Class 27: CVM™ Advanced Training Masterclass 22 – 8/12 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET. Level III: CVM™ Advanced scales -Mastering High Notes
Month 12: The Standing O Voice
Month 12: September – The Standing O Voice
- Class 28: CVM™ Advanced Training Masterclass 23 – 9/9 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET. Level III: Mastering Riffs / Endings
- Class 29: CVM™ Advanced Training Masterclass 24 – 9/16 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET. CVM™ Level III: The Grand Scale – / 2-3 octave scales
- Class 30: Graduation: Next Steps – 9/23 (Thurs) / 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET
What VMP III Is Worth
One full year of advanced training.
WHAT YOU GET
VALUE
24 Cole Vocal Method Training Masterclasses with Cari, live
$18,000 (Value)
7 Coaching and Q&A Calls with Cari, live
$7500 (Value)
175+ Cole Vocal Method Level III Exercises and Training Materials
$5,000 (Value)
BONUS: The Advanced Breathwork Hub
Included
BONUS: The Advanced Mastery Toolkit
Included
BONUS: The Vocal Mastery Resource Library
Included
The Advanced Singer Collective, your community of advanced singers
Included
Total value
$30,500
Your price
$4,499
Earlybird ends 10/9
More than $30,500 in value, and your price is $4,499
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WHAT STUDENTS
ARE SAYING
“Best voice lesson I ever had.”
— Chrisette Michele / Grammy winning singer
“Working with Cari has been, and continues to be an incredible experience for me. She has an amazing gift for understanding the many facets from the technical to the mental, emotional and physical aspects. She really helps you understand what you are doing and how it all works!”
— Diane Birch / Award winning singer-songwriter
“Thank you for bringing your vocal wisdom to our door.”
— Jonathan Cain, Journey
“Working with Cari is a beautiful balance of technique and strategy mixed with heart and soul.
If you are looking to level up how you hit notes, have less fatigue, more support and resonance, the Cole Vocal Method is so robust, it’s a life’s amount of knowledge. Cannot recommend enough!”
— Meagan Sky / Award-winning singer-songwriter
“I’m not afraid of the high notes anymore. I have extreme breath control. I went on tour and didn’t have problems with my voice. I am a life-long devotee of Cari Cole and her Cole Vocal Method.”
— Melissa Lundsgaard / Kirtan singer-songwriter
“I am an actress/singer in a small but professional theatre production. We have full-time rehearsals 5 days a week. Now after working with the Cole Vocal Method my voice is not only sounding better than ever before, it is keeping up, and is way more reliable for the first time, ever. I am no longer getting hoarse or losing my voice! I have struggled with this for my whole life! This is just amazing. Thank you!!”
— Charlotte Beerda / Actress, singer, poet
“Working with Cari is the single most influential choice I have made on my path to becoming a professional recording artist. Cari saw and believed in my potential even more than I did. She has been there to guide me while I find my sound and style as an artist. Her guidance led to my first label signing. I know if it weren’t for Cari, I would still just be dreaming of what could be. She is a friend, and a mentor, and her steadfast commitment has changed my course as an artist for the better.”
— Rainsford / Award-winning singer-songwriter
“In nearly 15 years working as a professional singer I have never received the kind of guidance and support that Cari Cole offers. My voice now a stronger instrument, I had the pleasure of testing it next to none other than the world’s most beloved tenor Andrea Bocelli, who invited me to sing alongside him at the end of his Latin American tour. I am now at a level that would’ve taken me at least 10 more years to master. Working with Cari and her method is truly an
amazing gift.”
— Cristal Marie/ Award-winning singer-songwriter
“It’s so nice to have a program that you can stick to and a guide to follow every single day. I’m finding really quick results. I played a four-hour gig two weekends ago and literally sang for four hours and was not hoarse at all after. After singing for years, that’s a first.”
— Joseph Eid / Award-winning singer-songwriter
Cole Vocal Method™ Level III Exercises + Training
Over 175+ vocal training series and exercises taught in class
Immerse yourself in The Cole Vocal Method™ Level III, and experience next step into our comprehensive method and systematized vocal system.
Led by Cari Cole with guided examples on audio and video), you'll dive into Level I plus over 175+ vocal sequences and exercises in Level I & Level II allowing participants to dive fully into The CVM™ building upon the foundations of Level I.
In over 40 years of teaching CVM™ and a 100 year vocal legacy, these exercises have never been brought to the public and now we're bringing them to you.
*Note: Open to all singers of all genres and levels. If you haven't yet completed VFC (Level I), don't worry! You can still join The Vocal Mastery Program and benefit from Cari teaching the Cole Vocal Method™ live on Zoom and guiding you through the exercises.
WHO IS THIS FOR
This is for the serious singer who is ready for the next level. You have done the work of Levels I and II. You know in your body what this method builds. And you are ready to discover what happens when an advanced curriculum meets a voice that is truly prepared to receive it.
The Professional Singer.
You perform on stages, in studios, on tour. You have felt what this method does in your instrument, and you know there is more to build. Level III is built for the demands of a professional life, for a voice conditioned to do far more than survive the work.
The Advanced Singer.
Your technique is solid and your instrument is real. You can feel a level of integration, power, and presence you have not fully touched yet. Level III is the training that takes a strong voice to world-class and closes the distance between the singer you are and the singer you have always known you could be.
The VMP II Graduate.
You completed Level II. You have felt this work in your body and heard it in your voice, and you understood, somewhere in the work, that it was only the beginning. Level III is the continuation you have been working toward, and it has been waiting for you.
The Vocal Coach.
You teach the method, or you want to. The CVM Master Coach Certification runs alongside Level III, the highest CVM credential, built for coaches ready to teach the advanced method. This is where you certify at the top of the ladder.
Who VMP III is not for
If your voice is still dealing with regular issues, fatigue, strain, or loss of range, the answer is to go deeper before you go further. We recommend repeating Level II first. Level III is built for a voice that is ready for it, and a voice that is still rebuilding deserves the time and space to finish that work. Come back when the foundation is solid. It will be here.
Other methods work the surface sound. The Cole Vocal Method builds the SOURCE Voice underneath.
This methodology did not begin with Cari Cole. Dr. Edward J. Dwyer, one of the most respected and most hidden vocal pedagogues of the twentieth century, developed a biomechanical approach to the singing voice that was decades ahead of its time. He passed it to his student. His student passed it to Cari Cole.
What Cari received, she spent the next forty years taking further than it had ever gone, refining it, testing it, and deepening it across thousands of singers in private studios in New York City. The lineage began at the Metropolitan Opera and traveled through a private chain of transmission that has never, until now, been made available to the public. What lives in Level III is the fullest expression of that transmission, the highest reaches of a methodology more than a century in the making.
“We are not here to change your voice. We are here to free it.”
Proven method
100 Year Legacy
40 yrs of vocal science
Excellence + Ethics in Voice
The Founder: Cari Cole
Cari Cole is a celebrity and holistic vocal coach, artist development expert, music mentor, and founder of the Cole Vocal Method. Over 40 years she has helped upwards of 50,000 singers build or recover their voices, from rock legends and Grammy winners to independent artists across every genre, including Journey, Donald Fagen of Steely Dan, Courtney Love, Chrisette Michele, Jeremy Zucker, Chelsea Cutler, Diane Birch, and Rainsford.
She is a Grammy voting member and Mentor for Grammy U and Women in Music. She has taught at Columbia University and NYU, and served on the Board of Directors of the New York Singing Teachers Association. She is also an artist in her own right, whose record Circle of Fire landed on the Grammy ballot for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance alongside Christina Aguilera, Annie Lennox, and Sarah McLachlan.
For four decades she taught this privately, one singer at a time. The Voice YOUniversity is how she brings it to you.
Cari is on a mission of helping singers step into their full potential and transforming 1 million voices worldwide.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
START HERE
What is the Vocal Mastery Program Level III?
Level III is the advanced chapter of the Cole Vocal Method and the deepest training Cari teaches. You get a full year of live Zoom training built on more than 150 advanced exercises and 30 masterclasses. The curriculum moves through six phases, from the toned voice to the world-class voice. This is the first cohort in the history of the program, and it opens once a year.
What does Level III actually build?
Big power notes that carry. Long held notes that cost the instrument nothing. Riffing, speed, and flexibility. Higher range that is simply available to you. The six phases carry you from the toned voice through the vibrant, radiant, commanding, and dynamic voice, and finish at the world-class voice. This is the finishing work that separates an accomplished singer from a singer audiences remember.
AM I READY
Is Level II truly required?
Yes, and not as a formality. Level III is calibrated for an instrument that has already been through the foundational and intermediate work. The advanced exercises assume your compensation patterns have been addressed and your core mechanics are built. Without that foundation underneath you, the curriculum cannot do what it was designed to do. If you have completed Levels I and II, you are ready for this.
I completed Level II and I am nervous Level III will be too hard. How do I know I am ready?
If your voice is stable, holding up under performance, and responding to the exercises, you are ready. Level III is demanding, and it is also the direct continuation of what you have already built. Nothing in it will be foreign to you, because you have spent a year preparing for exactly this. If you are still uncertain, book an enrollment call and we will look at where your voice actually is.
What if my voice is still having issues?
Then go deeper before you go forward. If you finished Level II and you are still dealing with fatigue, strain, unreliability, or lost range, repeat Level II first. Level III is advanced training for a voice that is ready to receive it, and a voice that is still rebuilding deserves the time to finish that work. There is wisdom in waiting a year. The program will be here.
What if I missed some of my Level II sessions?
Reach out before you enroll. Depending on which material you missed, there may be ground worth covering before you begin the advanced curriculum. Book an enrollment call and we will assess where you are and whether the timing is right for you this October. If it is not, we will tell you honestly and show you the better path.
HOW IT WORKS
What is V-YOU, and do I need it?
Voice YOUniversity is the home of the Cole Vocal Method, and it is where your curriculum lives. There are two ways in, The Studio and The Academy, and your Level III enrollment covers your Studio membership for the program year. That membership adds two more live sessions with Cari every month, the Monthly Voice Mastermind and the Vocal Accelerator. You also get the Private Global Community, four resource libraries, and member pricing on everything you add.
Does my enrollment include V-YOU membership?
Yes. Your first month of V-YOU Studio membership is billed at enrollment, and that is what secures your access to member pricing on every course you add. The following 11 months are then included in your program, so your membership runs the full program year. When the program ends, billing resumes at the same rate you started on, and we email you before that first charge. Already a Studio member? Your billing pauses when you enroll and stays paused through the end of the program.
Can I take Level III inside The Academy?
Yes, and for VMP Level II graduates we customize it. Your Academy year gives you Level III, all four Intensives, your membership, a private 30-minute Vocal Analysis Session with Cari, and the Academy Lounge, where she reviews your practice through the year. You buy the Academy one year at a time, so you commit to the year in front of you and decide again when the next October window opens.
Does the Academy path include the Vocal Coach Certification?
No. The CVM Vocal Coach Certification is its own path, offered as an option inside the Vocal Mastery Program for coaches who want it. What the Academy gives you is the full curriculum in sequence, and a Certificate of Completion at the end of the two years.
How much time does it take?
Your daily practice stays at about 20 minutes a day, five days a week, because this method is built on consistency rather than volume. Your live time goes up at this level, with masterclasses where Cari teaches the advanced curriculum and coaching calls where she works directly with your voice. Add the two monthly V-YOU sessions that come with your membership, and you are in the room with Cari all year.
Are replays available?
Yes. Every masterclass and coaching call is recorded and available for replay, so you can revisit the material between sessions and train at your own pace alongside the live curriculum. Advanced work rewards repetition. Many singers watch a masterclass twice, once to learn it and once to practice inside it.
ENROLLMENT
When does enrollment open, and how often?
Level III opens once a year, each October, and this is the inaugural cohort. Enrollment for the first class closes October 22, 2026, and the next opening is October 2027. There is no other path to this material and there never has been, so a year here is a real year.
Is there a payment plan?
Yes. The Vocal Mastery Program payment plans have a 14 day withdrawal policy from the start date of the program. If you find the program is not the right fit inside that window of time, contact our team at info@caricole.com to withdraw your seat and any further payments. No refunds are issued for payments in Month 1 due to the value of materials released at the top of the program. The pay-in-full option is final, so choose the monthly payment plan if you are uncertain.
Is there a guarantee?
Yes. Your 14 days start the day the program begins, so enrolling early never costs you your window. Step into the work, and if it is not the right fit within those first two weeks, contact our team for a full refund minus processing fees. We would rather you find that out early than sit in a year-long program that is wrong for you.