A Football Player Pirouettes: Principles and Application for Cross-Training
Thursday 27th May 2021, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM (London Time)
In the past decade, the emerging benefits of cross-training voices have provided insight into developing healthy, efficient, and versatile singers.
Cross-training voice athletes refers to building a balanced vocal mechanism regardless of the anticipated performance genre.
For example, Western classical singers engage in “belting” exercises and CCM singers vocalize in registration and resonance strategies necessary for Western classical repertoire.
Singers must train as complete voice athletes for optimal vocal efficiency, and in the twenty-first century be ready to sing in a variety of styles for optimal employment opportunities.
Both opera houses and music theatre companies are programming innovative seasons to keep patrons engaged.
Singers and the teachers that train them must be ready!
This workshop will include a PowerPoint presentation to highlight some physiologic and acoustic differences between variable high-intensity singing genres and a demonstration with singers for studio application insights.
Dr Kari Ragan
Singer, singing voice rehabilitation specialist (SVS), author, and voice pedagogue, Kari Ragan holds degrees from the University of Washington (DMA), and Indiana University (MM, BM).
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Do you work with students who struggle to connect their acting skills with their singing skills? Are your students currently auditioning for professional work, drama schools or entering competitions? Perhaps you are a singing teacher needing to work on performance, but you don’t have a background in acting.