Thirty Years of Interviews with Adolescent Boys: Why They Sing & Why They Don't
Thursday 16th January 2025, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM (London Time)
Within this session, Dr Freer will cover the pubertal changes of the male voice before moving on to examining new research that will ground a discussion of what teachers can do to:
- keep boys enrolled in choral singing during adolescence,
- facilitate the return to choral singing by boys who withdraw and
- develop active and successful recruitment/retention strategies for different types of schools and choral situations.
Patrick K. Freer
Patrick K. Freer is Professor of Music at Georgia State University where he currently conducts the Tenor-Bass Choir and directs the doctoral programs in music...
Attend this course for as little as £22 as part of the Voice Professional Training CPD Award Scheme.
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Tuesday 25th February 2025
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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Getting Down to Business: Exploring Business Structures that Provide Creative Flow
Cynthia Vaughn
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)
Options with laryngeal manipulation: Widening the aperture
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.