Kathleen,

According to your voice teacher's statistics, there is no such thing as an alto. I could understand someone arguing that "most" altos are actually mezzos, but for someone to contend that there are *no* altos seems to me like an argument over nothing more than semantics or definitions, not really a meaningful discussion.

I must confess that I'm just stirring up trouble here -- I'm an untutored folk/blues/soul singer with no more than a passing curiosity about definitions of the various voices.

The last time I was in an organized choral group, I was an alto -- a prepubescent male one, of course. I'm sure I could have been a boy soprano, but Sister Anne Eucharia made the girls sing soprano and the boys alto, no exceptions.