Kenneth Bozeman, BM, MM, Professor Emeritus of Music, taught at Lawrence University for 42 years where he chaired the voice department and from which he received two awards for excellence in teaching.
He holds performance degrees from Baylor University and the University of Arizona, and studied at the Conservatory of Music in Munich. He was awarded the Van Lawrence Fellowship by the Voice Foundation in 1994, is the chair of the editorial board of the Journal of Singing, and was inducted into the American Academy of Teachers of Singing in 2019. His writings on acoustic voice pedagogy include the books, Practical Vocal Acoustics:
Pedagogic Applications for Teachers and Singers, and Kinesthetic Voice Pedagogy: Motivating Acoustic Efficiency, now in a second edition. Bozeman’s students have sung with Houston Grand, Boston Lyric, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Dresden Opera, San Francisco, New York City, the Metropolitan, Chicago Lyric, and Santa Fe Opera.
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Course Reviews
Course Review: Training the Passaggi of Classical Genre Voices with Ken Bozeman
Voice Study Centre
Friday 30th June 2023Ken Bozeman’s classical passaggi short course began by discussing acoustic and laryngeal vocal registers and the two primary register transition zones (passaggi) – lower and higher – with a focus on the lower passaggio.
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Ken Bozeman Becomes Voice Study Centre Ambassador
Voice Study Centre
Thursday 28th July 2022Welcome to the Ambassador team, Ken Bozeman!
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Thursday 21st November 2024
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
(London Time)
Pedagogic Misconceptions and Their Correction
Ken Bozeman
Things are not always as they seem. Many fairly prevalent conceptions of vocal function and resultant studio directives are either inaccurate in part or in whole, misleading, and therefore in need of correction or at least significant qualification.
Past Short Courses
Thursday 29th June 2023
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
(London Time)
Training the Passaggi of Classical Genre Voices
Ken Bozeman
This class will be focused on practical pedagogic strategies for training voices in smooth negotiation of range. Special attention will be given to those transitions, both laryngeal and acoustic, that challenge efficient function.
Thursday 19th January 2023
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
(London Time)
Effective Studio Application Strategies
Ken Bozeman
This class will be focused on practical pedagogic applications by exploring effective studio strategies for respiration, pre-phonatory tuning, onset mode, phonation mode, articulation, resonance tuning and balance, range and passaggio negotiation, passive vowel migration, active vowel modification, and the necessary migrations of somatosense and timbre across range.
Thursday 16th June 2022
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
(London Time)
Mix (Voce Chiusa, Close Timbre): What It Is And Effective Ways To Induce It
Ken Bozeman
The cause, sounds (auditory targets) and sensations (somatosense) of mix or voce chiusa will be described, and effective strategies offered for its training, independent of genre.