Cross Training Musical Theatre Singers
Thursday 14th October 2021, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM (London Time)
The vocal skill required for a successful career in musical theatre today is worlds removed from what was expected 30 years ago.
To be competitive and stay competitive, singers must have resilient flexible voices and the stamina to survive eight shows a week.
Cross-training voices in classical and vernacular techniques ensures a balanced instrument, adaptable to a multitude of styles.
This workshop will focus on playful ways to produce a wide range of vocal sounds, tracking speaking and singing as a single integrated arc.
Mary Saunders Barton
Mary Saunders Barton is a Penn State Professor Emeritus, currently residing in New York where she maintains a private professional voice studio. She is an adjunct...
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(London Time)
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Unlike other fields of study, no license, apprenticeship, certificates, degrees, or minimum requirements are needed to establish yourself as an independent “professional” voice teacher. That means that anyone can teach singing. And they do. Your goal is to stand out from the crowds and build your studio or creative business with knowledge, integrity, intention, and business acumen.


Thursday 27th February 2025
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
(London Time)
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Walt Fritz
This workshop will provide an overview of the available styles of laryngeal manual therapies, both clinician-applied and self-applied, and offer the voice clinician an understanding of the relative equality of evidence supporting each model.


Tuesday 4th March 2025
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
(London Time)
Embedding Motor Learning into Voice Training with the Motor Learning Classification Framework

Cate Madill
This presentation will review the basic principles of motor learning, how they apply to voice training, review the evidence in published studies and how they might be applied by teachers who train vocalists across numerous contexts.