Trainer Profile

Dorte Hyldstrup is a singer and voice teacher who graduated from The Royal Danish Music Conservatory, Cph, DK in 1987.

She has done advanced studies in New York and North Carolina with Jo Estill in 1988; and has been a coordinator and intern on Estill Voice Training seminars in Denmark since 1991.

Since 2000 she has presented Estill Voice Training Courses in Denmark, Sweden, Norway. Finland, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Ukraine & Greece.

Dorte has been teaching singers on many levels for the last 35 years on institutions like: Rhythmic Music Conservatory 1988 -  2009, Music Department of the University of Copenhagen 1997 - 2006, the Royal Danish Academy of Music 1994 - 1999.

Currently she is working as a freelance Voice Teacher in her private studio and as a Estill Mentor Course Instructor, presenting Estill courses on a regular basis & supervising new Estill Master Trainers & Course Instructors.

In the 90´s she did a pilotstudie together with Jo Estill and Dr. Svend Prytz in Copenhagen. Using EMG and Endoscopy technic they investigated the effect of the Sternocleidomastoid m. (SCM) and the possible independant control of SCM and the false and the true vocal folds. 

Dorte also has 45 years of experience as a professional solo performer and backing Singer in studio and live and have done several Disney Studio Productions.

In november 2003 she released her first CD as a soloist: Dorte Hyldstrup: You Take Me Home. DHCD1. On this CD she presents original songs in a mix of soul, blues and jazz.

May 2015 a new CD with her latest project HYLD was released. You can listen here: My spotify profil

Dorte is a Certified NLP Master and was a board member of the Estill International Certification Board 2009 – 2013 & Danish Voice Association 2010 – 2014. Since 2017 she works as a boardmember in DSLF - the Danish Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics.