VocalScope
By Host: Juliette Caton
Eavesdrop as Juliette delves deep into conversation with inspiring performers exploring the journeys their voices and careers have taken them on, and discovers the latest developments in voice science and pedagogy with voice specialists and researchers who are at the forefront of new thinking, innovation and research within the world of voice, singing and vocal performance.
The VocalScope Podcast is sponsored by The VocalScope Book Club.
VocalScopeOct 22, 2019
023 - Matthew Mills on Trans, Non-Binary & Gender Affirming Voice Care
Presented by Juliette Caton / Edited by Sam Benoiton
Matthew Mills (he, him) is a Lead Consultant Speech and Language Therapist, and Head of Speech and Language Therapy at the London Gender Identity Clinic, where he has worked since 2009. He is a National Adviser in Trans Voice for the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, founder member of the Trans Voice Clinical Excellence Network and External Examiner for the Voice Studies MA/MFA at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Matthew is current President of the British Association of Gender Identity Specialsts (BAGIS).
VOICE CHOICE Listen to Matthew’s favourite vocal performance ‘Home' MJ Rodriguez on the VocalScope Podcast Guests Playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pjclKQVRnnUnMW0vgu0H0?si=8380f4264b42464e
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022 - Gillie Stoneham on working with Trans, Non-Binary & Gender Expansive Voices
Presented by Juliette Caton
Edited by Sam Benoiton
Gillie Stoneham began her career as a speech and language therapist and after completing her Masters in Human Communication was a Senior Lecturer on a BSc Speech Language Therapy programme for many years.
She began to specialise in voice both within this role and through her company which offers theatre skills in the workplace to build personal impact.
Through clinical practice within her lecturing role she first worked in gender affirming voice and communication in 2006 in the South West of England, and has developed a specialist role in the 17 years since.
She presents nationally and internationally in specialist conferences and study days and took up a part time consultancy role for the Tavistock & Portman Trust at the London Gender Clinic in 2016, working closely with Matthew Mills.
It was whilst she was in this post, that she co-authored 2 books with Matthew Mills and designed and delivered specialist training programmes for voice therapists nationally.
Gillie is a founding member of the Clinical Excellence Network (known as the CEN) in trans voice and communication and also of BAGIS which is the (British Association of Gender Identity Specialists). She also helped in writing the competency framework for the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT).
TRAIN WITH GILLIE at VOICE STUDY CENTRE
Certificate in Gender-Affirming Voice & Communication Coaching with Gillie Stoneham
Join Gillie for a deep dive into coaching transgender voices, drawing on her specialist knowledge to deliver introductory and orientation material right through to professional competence and vocal coaching implications – and everything in between.
Gillie's Website: www.actorfactor.co.uk
Gender Identity South West - www.genderidentitysouthwest.co.uk
Gillie’s socials: @gilliestoneham / @ActorFactorinfo
Linked In: Gillie Stoneham
VOICE CHOICE Listen to Gillie’s favourite vocal performance ‘Hope There's Someone' from the album I Am A Bird Now by Anohni - (Antony Hegarty transitioned and is now known as Anohni) Antony & the Johnsons on the VocalScope Podcast Guests Playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pjclKQVRnnUnMW0vgu0H0?si=8380f4264b42464e
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2023 VocalScope Book Club Reading List Launch - Season 1 'Trans & Non-Binary Voices' & Season 2 'Sounds of Race'.
Vocalscope Podcast & Book Club Host, Juliette Caton, announces the 2023 VocalScope Book Club Reading List, which launches with the first two seasons - 'Trans & Non-Binary Voices' (Season 1 - January to March) and 'Sounds of Race' (Season 2 - April to July).
In the VocalScope Book Club members get to:
READ & DISCUSSNominate and vote for the monthly book selection. Share the journey of reading and learning along the way with like-minded practise focussed peers in our online members group.
VocalScope Podcast Presenter, Juliette Caton, will host a members only monthly Q&A event giving you direct access to ask the Author of the Month your questions, before we open it up for group chat and discussion.
Harness new learning by exploring and developing together innovative yet practical ways that allow our reading and discussion to inform, elevate and transform future practise in our respective studios, clinics, practises, conservatoires, institutions & performing careers.
Find out more and sign up: https://vocalscope.ac-page.com/book-club-sign-up
#vocalscope #bookclub #vocalscopebookclub #2023ReadingList
021 - Jesse Smith on bringing vocals to Strictly and the challenges of an album launch as a self releasing singer-songwriter.
Jesse Smith is a rock singer, musician and songwriter based in London. A rock and pop vocalist, a self releasing singer songwriter and also currently working as a singer on the BBC’s ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ series under the genius musical direction of Dave Arch, Jesse is the front man for the band Romances, The Legacy Showband, The Classic Rock Show, Boot Led Zeppelin and London's premier rock night - Rock The Boat.
Jesse also starred in Thriller Live in the West End and has toured Europe with the cult heavy-metal cinematic experience Gutterdämmerung.
With these projects Jesse has performed all over the world in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, Wembley Arena, The London Palladium, The Olympic Stadium - Munic
AND having started his singing career early was a finalist for Junior Eurovision with appearances in three of the Harry Potter movies!
Jesse's Website: www.jessesmithuk.com
VOICE CHOICE Listen to Jesse’s favourite vocal performance Freddie Mercury singing Innuendo on the VocalScope Podcast Guests Playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pjclKQVRnnUnMW0vgu0H0?si=8380f4264b42464e
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020 - Tessa Niles backing singer to the stars discusses her career and her autobiography BACKTRACK.
With her versatile voice and ability to blend within a myriad of styles, she has hundreds of recording credits and live appearances to her name, performing with some of the biggest names in the music industry.
If you were listening to music during the 1980’s and 90’s then chances are that she performed live with some of your favourite artists and sang on your most loved tracks as she has worked with Bowie, Tina Turner, Sting, Duran Duran, Annie Lennox, Tears For Fears, The Pet Shop Boys,The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Tom Jones, Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams..
In 2015 she turned author with her memoir titled ‘Backtrack’ - the voice behind music’s greatest stars.
“She was described by Producer and Musical Director Steve Anderson as “the ultimate backing singer, not only because she does it with grace and excellence but because her knowledge of harmony is second to none. I fall in love with voices rarely - he says - but I fell in love with hers the moment we did our first session together and have been that way ever since.”
Tessa's Website: www.tessaniles.com
VOICE CHOICE Listen to Tessa’s favourite vocal performance Stevie Wonder singing All In Love Is Fair on the VocalScope Podcast Guests Playlist on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/playlist/4pjclKQVRnnUnMW0vgu0H0?si=8380f4264b42464e
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019 - Dr. Elisa Monti on becoming a Trauma informed Voice Professional.
As voice coaches and singing teachers we are often reminded and acutely aware of ‘staying in our lane’ and whilst its fully appreciated and respected that vocal coaches and singing teachers are not (unless previously trained) psychotherapists or trauma specialists, this doesn’t mean that we won’t come across students, clients, choir members, performers or colleagues who are in the throes of a trauma response during our work together. The voice is an emotional tool and we can’t escape the fact that trauma is something that affects the voice, the learner, the performer, the human.
So, in today’s podcast, we are going to begin to discuss what it means to be “trauma-informed” in relation to voice use and our voice and rehearsal studios.
We’ll be discussing mental health and trauma-related factors in professional singers whilst we also considering the prevalence and impact of trauma, exploring ways for voice professionals and voice users to embody a trauma-informed approach - so that we can start to understand what feeling comfortable and confident in own roles and scopes of work might look like if were to become ‘trauma informed’.
My guest, Dr. Elisa Monti is a voice-specialized experimental psychologist with a PhD from The New School for Social Research.
Elisa is a certified Performance Wellness Therapist trained in the Montello Method for Performance Wellness and in Vocal Psychotherapy.
Her focus is the relationship between psychological trauma and different measures of voice. Her mission being to contribute to furthering our understanding of this relationship.
Elisa is a co-founder of the Voice and Trauma Research & Connection Group and she is also a co-Founder of Monti Bianchi Performance Wellness.
Recommended Further Reading & Training
In the VocalScope Book Club we read The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma By Bessel van der Kolk.
The Voice Study Centre is now offering an online Trauma-Informed Voice Professional (Level 4 Course) which Dr.Elisa Monti is leading https://voicestudycentre.com/trauma-informed-voice-professional-level-4-qualification-course/
Elisa's Websites: www.voiceandtrauma.com
https://voicestudycentre.com/trauma-informed-voice-professional-level-4-qualification-course/
Elisa's Social Media:
https://www.instagram.com/voice.and.trauma/
https://www.instagram.com/monti_bianchi_pw/
https://www.instagram.com/performancewellnessinc/
VOICE CHOICE Listen to Elisa’s favourite 'Simone Simons' from Epica singing Unleashed on the VocalScope Podcast Guests Playlist on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pjclKQVRnnUnMW0vgu0H0?si=8380f4264b42464e
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018 - Lynn Helding discusses the 'Musician's Mind', the changing relationship between the sciences & art and what her research can teach us about being better singers, musicians and artists.
Professor of Practice in Voice and Vocal Pedagogy at USC’s Thornton School of Music, Helding is also the author of The Musician's Mind: Teaching, Learning & Performance in the Age of Brain Science. Lynn also authored the chapter “Brain” in Your Voice: An Inside View. At the time of recording this episode she was an associate editor of the Journal of Singing and since recording this interview she has been made Editor in Chief.
A devoted teacher, she was recognized as a “legendary figure in the field of voice pedagogy” by the Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) Vocal Pedagogy Institute at Shenandoah University, receiving their 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Her stage credits include leading roles with Harrisburg Opera, Nashville Opera and Ohio Light Opera, and solo recitals throughout the US, Italy, France, England, Germany, Spain, Australia and Iceland
Lynn created the “Mindful Voice” column in the Journal of Singing, authoring over thirty researched articles published there under her byline from 2009-17.
Other writings include articles for Journal of Voice, the chapters “Science-Informed Vocal Pedagogy” in The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing, and “Voice, the Music of the Soul,” in Singing: The Timeless Muse with her writing described as “ground breaking and exciting,” “profoundly captivating” and “tremendously important”.
Lynn's Website: https://lynnhelding.com
VOICE CHOICE Listen to Lynn’s favourite 'Voice Choice' Hector Berlioz on the VocalScope Podcast Guests Playlist on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pjclKQVRnnUnMW0vgu0H0?si=8380f4264b42464e
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017 - VocalScope: Nathan James - Managing the demands of being a touring Rock Singer.
Lead Singer of British Rock Band 'Inglorious', Singer-Songwriter Nathan James, discusses his career, how he manages the demands of being an internationally touring Rock Singer, and the unique relationship that can exist between a Singer and Vocal Coach when they have worked together for nearly two decades.
Nathan's Twitter & Insta: @thenathanjames
Inglorious: http://inglorious.com
Inglorious Socials: @weareinglorious
VOICE CHOICE Listen to Nathan’s favourite 'Voice Choice' on the VocalScope Podcast Guests Playlist on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pjclKQVRnnUnMW0vgu0H0?si=8380f4264b42464e
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016 - VocalScope: Kim Chandler - Training the Pop Singer.
015 - VocalScope: Andrew Byrne, Author of The Singing Athlete discusses using neurology to enhance voice training.
014 - VocalScope: Joanne Bozeman discusses 'Singing Through Change', Perimenopause, Menopause & the Voice just as the Menopause Revolution gathers momentum.
This episode is dedicated to all those taking a stand in the #menopauserevolution
Joanne Bozeman introduces herself to us:
“I grew up in a musical home with lots of singing in our daily life, and great music playing on the stereo. I trained at University as a Classical Singer, and performed a wide range of repertoire in my community and regionally.
My career as an independent singing teacher began when I was at university, and I was fortunate to work 26 years at a fine undergraduate conservatory. Now retired from academia.
My long interest in hormones and female voice resulted in the book "Singing Through Change: Women's Voices in Midlife Menopause, and Beyond" (2020) co-authored with Nancy Bos and Cate Frazier-Neely.
My husband and I raised 3 wonderful children, and we are blessed with 5 grandchildren.”
Joanne is a presenter on The Vocal First Aid Course
Joanne is giving presentations for The Sing Space on Nov. 3 and Dec. 1, 2021
Joanne is presenting on Opera Programs Berlin 2022 Pedagogy Conference: Feb. 16-March 6. https://www.operaprogramsberlin.com/vocal-pedagogy-symposium-feb2021.html
JOANNE BOZEMAN
Webpage
https://www.lawrence.edu/conservatory/faculty/joanne_bozeman
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanne-bozeman/
Singing Through Change Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/singingthroughchange/
Singing Through Change Instagram: @singingthruchange
Joanne gave a NATS Chat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aS0BYAkEMM&t=9s
Joanne's Interview with Dr. Dan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpQGlg02_ao&t=2732s
This Embodied Voice Podcast with Susanne Lis: http://www.suzannelis.com/this-embodied-voice
PERIMENOPAUSE & MENOPAUSE
The Balance App: https://www.balance-menopause.com/balance-app/
Recommended Further Reading:
Singing Through Change by Nancy Bos, Cate Frazier-Neely & Joanne Bozeman
Preparing for the Menopause & The Menopause by Dr. Louise Newson
The Evolving Singing Voice: Changes Across The Lifespan by Karen Brunssen
The Estrogen Question by Dr Sandra Rice
The New Hormone Solution by Erika Schwartz, M.D.
Blog: https://yourestrogenquestions.com
VOICE CHOICE
Listen to the VocalScope Spotify Podcast Guests playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pjclKQVRnnUnMW0vgu0H0?si=8380f4264b42464e
Joanne recommended the documentary Twenty Feet from Stardom
VOCALSCOPE PODCAST & BOOK CLUB
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/vocalscope
https://vocalscope.ac-page.com/book-club-sign-up
013 - VocalScope: John Colapinto, Author & Journalist, discusses his extraordinary book 'This Is The Voice'.
About John:
JOHN COLAPINTO began his career as a journalist in his native Toronto before moving to New York City in 1989 where he worked as staff writer at Rolling Stone magazine and, later, The New Yorker. He won a National Magazine Award for his Rolling Stone story about the world’s first infant sex reassignment and expanded the story into the New York Times bestselling book As Nature Made Him (currently in development with Peter Jackson as a feature film). His articles have been anthologized in the annual compendiums The Best American Science and Nature Writing (2008, ’10, ‘11); Crime Reporting (‘09); and Sports Writing (2017).
His first novel, About the Author (a tale of literary envy and theft), was published in 2001 and, in 2019, it was named, by the Times of London, as one of the top 100 thrillers published since 1945. His novel Undone (2015) challenged the new prudery around sex and was promptly rejected by almost 50 publishers worldwide, but was finally brought out in the US, UK and Canada by small, brave publishing outfits.
He published This is The Voice, in January 2021.
Colapinto is also a singer in the NYC-based rock bands Rack of Lamb and the Sequoias and in May 2021 he extended his adventures into vocal expressiveness by co-starring in the upcoming short film “The File.”
About This is the Voice:
This is the Voice takes a deep dive into all aspects of the noises we make with our mouths, from the goose-bump inducing power of song to the intellectual stimulation of conversation and monologue, and reveals how these extraordinary acoustic signals (which began with the grunts and wheezes of the lungfish, 400 million years ago, and which our species refined into speech) shot us to the top of the food chain. Emotion, accents, speech disorders and injuries (like the vocal polyp suffered by the book’s author), are among the many topics addressed—all with an eye (or ear) toward showing how our unique vocal signals are an indelible badge of identity, a key to our geographic origins, level of education, socioeconomic status, race and even sexual orientation. Because the very sound of the voice is so important to how we choose our political leaders (from the rolling orotundity of a Churchill to the ripping shriek of a Hitler), the book also shows how unexpectedly important the vocal signal is to the fate of a species whose leaders must guide us through the dangers of thermonuclear weapons to the ravages of global pandemics. Ultimately, This is the Voice argues that voice is our most important faculty of all, the complex gymnastic achievement of lungs, lips and tongue that made us human.
John's Favourite Voice: Neil Young singing Harvest.
Listen to John's 'Voice Choice' on the VocalScope Podcast Guests playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pjclKQVRnnUnMW0vgu0H0?si=8380f4264b42464e
Join the VocalScope Book Club: https://vocalscope.ac-page.com/book-club-sign-up
012 - VocalScope: Nick Clinch on Voice Reels, Voice Overs and setting up a home studio.
Nick Clinch is founder of Notable Voices, currently London's highest reviewed voiceover and voice reel service, and there’s a reason for that. After working in audio for 15 years - first as a touring session musician, then as a qualified audio production lecturer - Nick decided to put all this experience into what he refers to as a “much better use” and built his own Voice Reel company.
Unlike any other voice reel recording service you come across, you can work with their experienced engineer and director for up to a full day! Nick takes the time to learn, explore and understand your voice and how you fit in this expanding industry. He will teach you top techniques and give you insights into how you can kickstart your career and market your voiceover business. All at half the price of bigger Soho studios. Nick offers a free consultation and gives VocalScope listeners a 10% discount.
Favourite Voice:
Justin Vernon of Bon Iver
Song to listen to:
Woods
Spotify playlist of VocalScope Guest Favourite Voices:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pjclKQVRnnUnMW0vgu0H0?si=iWuMOaAIRe-KSMzb_VdsRg
Nick’s Notable Voices website:
www.notablevoices.co.uk
VocalScope Episode Sponsor Discount Code
Listeners can receive a fabulous 10% discount on voice reels at www.notablevoices.co.uk by using VOCALSCOPE at check out or mentioning us at the point of contact.
011 - VocalScope: Dr. Ian Howell explains lagless real-time online voice teaching and learning in the Covid era.
Dr. Ian Howell is a member of the voice faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, where he also directs the graduate voice pedagogy program and coaches students in Baroque voice repertory.
Dr. Howell's work explores the special psychoacoustics of the singing voice, with an eye toward practical applications for singers and voice teachers. Human senses interpret reality according to a dependable set of rules. These same senses also perceive greater detail once we internalize more precise labels and conceptual models. Dr. Howell’s work produces new aural/visual models that better characterise the perceptual qualities of sung vowels and voice registration. He unpacks and identifies the perceptually coherent components of a vowel, showing how absolute, objective labels apply to the relative scale of tonal brightness.
Dr. Howell has presented original research at the Pan American Vocology Association's Symposium (2015, 2016), The National Association of Teachers of Singing's National Convention (2016), Harvard's ArtTechPsyche III (2017), and The Society for Music Perception and Cognition (upcoming summer of 2017). He is a guest faculty member at the Vocal Pedagogy Professional Workshop at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee (2017), and Kenneth Bozeman's Acoustic Vocal Pedagogy Seminar (2017).
As a classical countertenor, Ian Howell has sung on most major international concert stages as both a soloist and a member of the Grammy Award winning ensemble Chanticleer. He appears on recordings on the Warner Brothers, Rhino, Gothic, Yale, American Bach Soloists, and Naxos record labels and has published multiple live concert performances on YouTube. Ian Howell hold the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from NEC, the Master of Music degree from Yale University, and the Bachelor of Music degree from Capital University.
Favourite Voice:
Emily Saliers from the Indigo Girls
Song to listen to:
History Of Us
Spotify playlist of VocalScope Guest Favourite Voices:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pjclKQVRnnUnMW0vgu0H0?si=iWuMOaAIRe-KSMzb_VdsRg
Ian's website:
Ian’s Soundjack Guide:
Examples of lagless online music making:
VocalScope Episode Sponsor Discount Code
Listeners can receive a fabulous 25% discount on tracks from the bespoke service at www.theaccompanist.co.uk by using VOCALSCOPE at check out.
010 - VocalScope: Declan Costello discusses aerosol research and the risks associated with singing in the Covid era.
A vital listen for all voice users, music makers and audiences alike - Declan Costello ENT, discusses his very recent research into aerosols and the risks and challenges associated with singing in the Covid era.
Mr Declan Costello is a highly experienced consultant laryngologist with extensive expertise in treating all aspects of voice disorders and hoarseness – from vocal cord nodules and cysts to polyps, papilloma, vocal cord paralysis and spasmodic dysphonia.
As a singer himself, he has a particular interest in treating voice disorders in performers. He is also one of the leading exponents of local anaesthetic laryngeal procedures, which can be particularly beneficial for patients with vocal fold paralysis.
He regularly runs workshops for singers and performers on voice health and anatomy.
Mr Costello studied music at St John’s College, Cambridge, where he was a choral scholar under Christopher Robinson. He went on to study medicine at Imperial College and undertook his ENT specialist training in the Oxford region.
He was appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon (specialising in voice disorders) at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham in August 2010. In December 2018 his NHS practice moved to Wexham Park Hospital in Berkshire.
Mr Costello runs weekly private clinics in London and Maidenhead and weekly NHS clinics in Wexham Park (Slough) and Heatherwood (Ascot).
Amongst his non-clinical duties, he is the editor of ENT & Audiology News magazine. During the Coronavirus pandemic, he has worked with a team to develop and distribute the Covid Airway Screen. Through a Crowdfunder campaign, this novel protective device is now being distributed, free of charge, to hospitals in the UK. He has spoken to BBC Radio 3 about this in interviews on In Tune.
Favourite Voice.
Declan's chose Samuel Boden as his favourite voice and selected his John Blow works.
http://www.samuelboden.com/john-blow-an-ode-on-the-death-of-mr-henry-purcell-other-works/
Declan's website.
Aerosol Research Video mentioned in podcast
VocalScope Sponsor Discount Code
Listeners can receive a fabulous 25% discount on backing tracks from the bespoke service at www.theaccompanist.co.uk by using VOCALSCOPE at check out.
009 - VocalScope: Adam Bridges, AKA The Accompanist, discusses working with an accompanist.
Welcome back to VocalScope and to our Second series!
Our first guest, who is also our new sponsor, is The Accompanist, Adam Bridges.
Adam is a London based pianist with over 20 years of playing experience and he set up The Accompanist in 2019 to provide a bespoke accompanist and backing track service from piano to full orchestration. Having graduated from both Guildhall School of Music & Drama and London Centre of Contemporary music, his playing ability covers a wide range of genres. He has worked all around the UK and around the world performing and playing and he is a a very experienced accompanist - playing for The Royal Ballet, LAMDA, Italia Conti, Rose Bruford and many choirs.
Favourite Voice
Adam's favourite voice is Rufus Wainwright and he recommends we listen to Go or Go Ahead.
Sponsors Discount Code
VocalScope listeners can receive a fabulous 25% discount at www.theaccompanist.co.uk by using VOCALSCOPE at check out.
008 - VocalScope: Jamie Read, Co-Founder & Director of Voice Faculty at READ College, discusses his approach to training Musical Theatre voices at the start of their full time training journey.
Jamie Read, Co-Founder and Director of Voice Faculty at READ College, discusses with Juliette his approach to training young Musical Theatre Voices at the beginning of their full time training journey and the challenges they face in preparing for a career in the Musical Theatre industry.
Jamie is a teacher, researcher and writer specialising in Musical Theatre voice, and runs a busy private practice working with voice users from vicars to rappers and opera singers to primary school teachers. He started his career as a dancer, and worked his way into vocal coaching via musical theatre, film, TV, choreography, producing and writing, and along the way completed his Estill Master Teacher Certification and PGCert in Voice Pedagogy with Voice Workshop UK.
Links
Twitter: @VoiceTeacherUK and @READCollege
Websites: www.thevoiceteacher.co.uk and www.readcollege.org
Jamie’s favourite voice:
Callie Day sings Hear My Prayer
007 - VocalScope: Kenneth Bozeman - Author & Professor, shares with us through the lense of his work with vocal acoustics, an extraordinary journey with his own voice.
An authority on vocal acoustics, this is a glimpse of a very special human in conversation. Humble, open, wise.
‘Voice is a kind of sound characteristic of what has soul in it; nothing that is without soul utters voice… Voice then is the impact of the inbreathed air against the ‘windpipe’, and the agent that produces the impact is the soul resident in these parts of the body’. Aristotle.
Kenneth Bozeman, Professor of Music, tenor, holds performance degrees from Baylor University and the University of Arizona, and subsequently studied at the State Conservatory of Music in Munich on a Rotary fellowship. He is chair of the voice department at Lawrence University, where he has received two awards for excellence in teaching. He was awarded the Van Lawrence Fellowship by the Voice Foundation in 1994 for his interest in voice science and pedagogy and is the chair of the editorial board of the NATS Journal of Singing. His former students have sung with Houston Grand, Boston Lyric, Opera Colorado, Washington, Wolf Trap, Seattle, Deutsche Oper Berlin, San Francisco, New York City Opera, the Metropolitan, and Santa Fe Opera.
Kenneth’s main faculty website with schedule, etc.
http://faculty.lawrence.edu/bozemank/
Other recordings, interviews, etc.
http://faculty.lawrence.edu/bozemank/media/recordings/
Honors Convocation – Kenneth Bozeman – Voice, the Muscle of the Soul: Finding Yourself Through Finding Your Voice – 05.22.18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_scN9ABnZZg
Ken’s favourite singers: Jussi Bjoerling and Fritz Wunderlich.
The song he mentions is ‘Adelaide’ by Beethoven.
Wunderlich sings Adelaide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JovuUy4TkE
Bjoerling sings Adelaide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVlOeHOugIA
006 - VocalScope: Debbie Winter, director of Voice Workshop and founder of Voice Geek, shares what is behind her desire to provide opportunities for education within the voice coaching community.
Our second 'VocalScope On Tour' episode, (listen beyond the less than perfect 'on location in a campervan' sound levels!) in which Debbie Winter introduces us to what motivated the varied PGCert, MA, qualification pathways she has developed for Voice Practitioners and Pedagogues in the UK and shares with us the inspirational areas of research her cohort are producing work in. With a PhD in the pipeline, and Debbie’s enormously varied programme of short courses too, Voice Workshop is fast becoming a one stop shop for anyone seeking the opportunity to further develop their knowledge, learning and qualifications in the area of Voice - so do check out www.voiceworkshop.co.uk.
Links:
Debbie’s favourite artist’s song: - Sentimental Mood - Ella Fitzgerald
005 - VocalScope: Jai Ramage, TV Show Voice Coach and Artist Manager talks about her journey with her own voice, which lead to her work with new talent and emerging artists in the Music Industry.
TV & Music Industry Vocal Coach, Jai Ramage, discusses her approach to her coaching work, and how her experiences as a musical theatre performer have contrasted with and complemented how she now works with voices in the TV and Music Industries; experiences which have all lead to her new career direction into artist management.
To contact Jai:
Vocal Coaching: info@JaiRamageVoice.com
Management Enquiries: mgmt@JaiRamageVoice.com
Instagram: @jairamagevoice
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Jai-Ramage-Voice-105335376203268/
Jai manages Flo Gallop & Coral Palms
Coral Palms debut single https://youtu.be/1ZaMHhpF_eg
Flo Gallop https://youtu.be/Z09umgbch0U
Jai's favourite voice and track:
Fairground Attraction ' A smile In a Whisper' https://youtu.be/TmZUW61iB00
004 - VocalScope: Kerrie Obert, Voice Researcher, reveals the challenges voice researchers face and shares wisdom she has gained from her career at the forefront of voice science and pedagogy.
003 - VocalScope: Walt Fritz explains Myofascial Release Therapy, his approach to the work and the potential for this manual therapy to impact the voice.
Meet Walt Fritz, a physical therapist from New York who's been using manual therapy as his primary intervention strategy for over 25 years and for the past 6 years has been addressing Neck, Swallowing & Voice Disorders through a technique called Myofascial Release.
Walt has been an educator since 1995 and travels throughout the USA and internationally, presenting his work to speech pathologists, massage therapists and vocal coaches.
In this episode Walt shares with host, Juliette Caton, his approach to this work, describes what a Myofascial Release treatment session might feel like and how it might apply to our work as voice users, performing artists, teachers and coaches.
Links
Website/Blog: www.waltfritz.com. For a 10% discount on the majority of Walt’s courses use VOCALSCOPE at checkout.
Research Link: https://waltfritzseminars.com/resources-2-2/research/
Further Reading: Myofascial Release / Massage with the Vocal Athlete. https://waltfritzseminars.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/MNZ-Vocal-Athlete-April-2019-PDF.pdf
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDCX700Gnp2S-fwwkYxR_qk0W4mffJS91
'21 Questions' YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDCX700Gnp2T3qYgTbyNXaQ3ZUERYglVP
Instagram: @waltfritzpt
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/walt.fritz
Walt's Favourite Voice: Frazey Ford - Here she is singing the song he mentioned 'Indian Ocean' https://youtu.be/WkEQ1yt5CBU
002 - VocalScope: Steve Balsamo shares experiences of his voice from West End crucifixions to ancestral overtone healing to recording as a solo artist.
Born and raised in Swansea, UK, Steve started out singing in rock bands as a teenager before he came to the public's attention in the mid '90s by way of a beard, long hair and a loincloth - playing Jesus in a West End revival of Jesus Christ Superstar. Signing to Columbia Records soon after the messiah complex wore off, he was molded into a poppy/rocky/folky/country-ish artist - nothing like covering all the bases - and made an album, All I Am.
"Despite the musical schizophrenia, he had a ton of fun travelling the world and writing lots of songs, and I even got to play live on legendary UK television's Top Of The Pops, and even made the charts."
Steve formed a country rock band, The Storys, made 3 albums and toured the globe with the great and the good, including Santana, Celine Dion, Joe Cocker and Elton John, who declared their first album 'fantastic!'. He is part of an ongoing prog/electronica project with Rob Reed of Magenta called chimpanA.
"The first album upset Q Magazine so much that they declared it was 'drowning in a sea of pretentiousness'. They'll be over the moon that our second album is nearly finished."
More recently Steve made an Americana/Country album with Rosalie Deighton called Unfolding. In between these adventures, Steve got to write songs for lots of artists including Meatloaf, Slash, and Cliff Richard, worked with heroes Jon Lord of Deep Purple, Eric Woolfson of The Alan Parsons Project, and even gave a singing lesson to Robert Plant.
Steve is currently recording a collection of old, new, borrowed and blue songs for a series of 4 EPs.
"They've got a kind of Americana vibe, I guess because it's all I'm really listening to these days, and I think they are sounding really sweet. Words feature very heavily in this genre, and I'm really enjoying wrestling lyrics to the mat, and trying to really get inside the songs, digging deep to soul mine my truth right now. I'm probably the happiest musically I've ever been!"
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