by Jamea Sale, contributing author, DevelopingVoices.blog “While the vocal apparatus does change as we grow older, researchers have found that voice training may help maintain the voice as we age.” (Butler, 2001). The Female Voice undergoes changes throughout the lifetime. Her habitual voice pitch descends from age 4 to 50 years, & finally settles in […]
Stand Tall Singer!
How many times have we heard “Stand in Singer’s Posture” or “Pull Your Sternum Toward the Ceiling”? And so, tall I stood. Staying in perfect posture took hold when I was but fourteen years old and effected me until just a few years ago. When I was an impressionable fourteen years old someone gave me […]
Arietha Lockhart, Award-Winning Soprano ~
“an artist of taste and intelligence with a very beautiful high soprano voice.” Robert Shaw As an active recitalist and concert singer, Ms. Lockhart is known for her performances of oratorio masterworks and new works by contemporary American composers. She has won numerous awards at various competitions and festivals around the world. Recently, DevelopingVoices.blog conducted […]
Help for Seamless Singing . . . aid for passaggio and registers
Article submitted by Contributing Author Melissa Shallberg, DevelopingVoices.blog ~ There is so much conflicting information on the “Passaggio” or “Registers” of the Human Voice that aid in seamless singing! Be it speaking, theatrical, or singing the terminology and methodology of the vocal mechanism can be an intimidating subject to grasp. Effective Exercises for Creating Seamless […]
The Good, The Bad and The Injured – Today’s Pop Artists
Who are the good? Who are the bad? Who has suffered vocal injuries due to poor singing habits? written by Contributing Author of DevelopingVoices.blog Jennifer Berroth. Pop genre is ever present in musical preferences of young people and can have a profound influence on their vocal development. That influence can be positive and inspiring—but it can […]
The Piano Sound Board ~ The Human Voice Box
An impromptu opportunity to showcase how a piano makes sound and in comparison to how our voice box makes sound arose when we needed to re-arrange our rehearsal space. This meant our three youngest choirs in the Zhuhai Classical Children’s Choir program were able to practice with the Kawai grand piano as opposed to the […]