Teaching Hypermobile Singers: Turning Frustration into Fascination Chances are you’re already teaching hypermobile singers, and they may not even know it themselves. Working with these singers can be both remarkable and challenging: vocal instability and chronic tension often coexist with an extended vocal range and an unusually flexible voice. It presents differently in every body…
How to Heal a Broken Singer Through Love and Play This presentation shares my journey: losing my professional singing voice and finding it again after two vocal fold surgeries. In the middle of medical routines and prescribed exercises, I discovered something simple but deeply essential: to heal my voice, I had to sing. Not as…
the significance of inverted positions in freeing the speaking and singing voice
Adapting Student-Centered Pedagogy Across Three Distinct Musical Genres The concept of student-centered teaching is not difficult to grasp. And yet, much of vocal training has evolved from the master-apprentice model, which has—for centuries—promoted and institutionalized a binary, hierarchical methodology to teaching and learning. This approach prioritizes the teacher’s perceptions, silencing students’ artistic and technical instincts.When…
Bridging the Gap Between Commercial and Community Music Pop Nation Canada is Canada’s largest contemporary choir organization, engaging more than 450 singers ages 6 to 65+ across diverse performance ensembles and recreational classes. Their model prioritizes joy, movement, social connection, and the celebration of uniqueness over perfectionism, creating a space where singers can grow musically…
What is “crossover” music and how does “cross-training” develop the skill set needed to successfully sing this repertoire? In this interactive workshop we will define the sounds and musical elements of crossover music, and experiment with bel-canto and contemporary commercial music vocal techniques in a series of engaging and exploratory vocal exercises. Through group singing…
Personal journal writing about singing – Helping voice students to help themselves In an increasingly complex world, vocalists benefit from learning to sing quickly yet thoroughly. This includes understanding all aspects of singing: practice, repertoire, performances, defining their art, song interpretation, and more. Personal journal writing about these aspects can help them gain clarity. A…
