VoiceArts Foundation

This practicum course provides an introduction to a wide-range of topics, skills and contexts with which all voice-based artists need to be familiar, and lays a foundation for more advanced work. The course will explore issues critical to vocal artists, and participants will gain practice with tools they will need in future work. Participants also will learn to observe themselves and their work, and will begin to determine which skills, tools, resources, etc., will be necessary for them to accomplish work at the highest level. Topics will include vocal function, healthy singing and speaking, phonetics and diction, interpretation and communication, listening, resources for singers, professionalism, development of the physical and the artistic voice, and many other subjects necessary for all vocalists.