This course will be recorded and sent out to all pre-registered participants to watch in their own time.
Due to licensing laws, we are unable to sell this course retrospectively.
Thinking Outside the Voice Box: Adolescent Voice Change in Music Education
with Dr. Bridget Sweet
Thursday 5th May 2022 at 5-7pm (UK time)
The goal of this workshop is to encourage new and holistic ways of thinking about the [assigned at birth] female and [assigned at birth] male adolescent changing voice.
We will step away from typical considerations of voice change and explore the experience within the bigger picture of adolescence.
Conversation will include topics of physical development during adolescence, including the body, brain, and auditory system; vocal anatomy and physiology in general, as well as during male and female voice change; the impact of hormones on the adolescent voice, especially for female singers; ideas of resolve and perseverance that are essential to adolescent navigation of voice change; and the influence of a voice change simulacrum that influences societal thinking about the voice change phenomenon.
A brief examination of voice classification systems and other foundational ideas in choral music education, as well as emerging considerations of adolescent voice change beyond classification systems, provide new food for thought about working with the adolescent changing voice.
If you would like a certificate of attendance for this event, please send us an email.
Bridget Sweet is Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois where she teaches music education pedagogy, including choral methods and literature, middle-level general music methods, graduate courses in music education, as well as a course focused on the development of healthy practices for all musicians.
Dr. Sweet has worked extensively with adolescent singers as a teacher, clinician and adjudicator. She wrote the books Growing Musicians: Teaching Music in Middle School and Beyond (2016) and Thinking Outside the Voice Box: Adolescent Voice Change in Music Education (2019).
Her research interests include middle level choral music education, female and male adolescent voice change, empowering music educators, health and wellness, and intersections of diversity and the music classroom.
She is earning licensure to be a Body Mapping Instructor through the Association for Body Mapping Education.
Thursday 5th May 2022 at 5-7pm
(UK time)
This course is free for Voice Study Centre's MA/PGCert students and £30 (VAT inclusive) otherwise.
If you would like to book a place on this course, please use the payment form in the 'Book Your Place' tab or email info@voicestudycentre.com
This course has already taken place and cannot be purchased retrospectively.
