Shinyeol Pae

Shinyeol Pae from South Korea is a singer, voice teacher, vocal coach, songwriter and SLP Master's student of Daegu Catholic University (DCU). As a CCM vocal pedagogue, he gives private lectures to voice instructors from all kinds of musical genres and teaches singers of all ages in respect of this work. He has participated in choir performances as a member of Heritage Mass Choir.

Shinyeol is the founder of DesignVoiceCenter and also a member of the multidisciplinary team at Medical Voice ENT clinic. He is now working at Medical Voice ENT clinic as a vocal coach and singing voice specialist. And he serves at DCU as a teaching assistant and research assistant in the field of voice in the SLP department and Catholic Hearing Voice Speech Center.

He has a perspective that is student-centred, profoundly psychological, and cross-disciplinary towards all kinds of voice, particularly CCM and MT. He has learned not only motor learning but the attitude of life-long learning about the voice from the teachings of his mentor Kittie Verdolini Abbott.

He is a founding member of NATS South Korea Chapter and serves as a publication director and research director. He is on PAVA-RV designation and holds full membership of PAVA (Pan American Vocology Association) and is a member of PAVA S&S Team. He is also an active member of Estill Voice Training, a member of the Human Compatible Learning Center (led by Beth Falcone), and a member of the Singing for Health Network.

Shinyeol has attended and/or completed the ‘Certificate In Vocal Pedagogy: The ‘What, Why And How’ Of Vocal Pedagogy’ with Kerrie Obert; VTS & AIV; Lessac-Kinesensics - A Taste of Lessac; VTS 2.0 & AIV 2.0 from Visions in Voice; Essentials of Performing Arts Medicine Arts Educator (Vocal Performance) from PAMA; the certification course of Estill Voice Training EMT; Estill for Speech-Language Pathologists: Voice Therapy; Donald Gray Miller’s 10th Annual Singing Voice Science Workshop (The Official Workshop of VoceVista); Medical Voice EBVP (Evidence Based Vocal Pedagogy); and Birkman Preview Debriefer Level from BIRKMANKOREA & BIRKMAN INTERNATIONAL, INC.

He has a deep interest in psychology; somatics – including Lessac voice and bodywork and the Feldenkrais Method®; a variety of vocal teaching methodologies; and brain science related to voice production. Titze and Verdolini's vivid lectures have inspired him to build a bridge between voice habilitation and voice rehabilitation.

Shinyeol has presented about psychological and psychogenic issues of the singer, educational psychology in the voice lesson, sensory feedback, and motor learning at NATS International Chapter’s 1st conference, NATS South Korea Chapter’s 2^nd and 3^rd conferences, medical voice journal meetings, and others.