Each teaching day has its context. Here are some videos of different contexts:
The first set is of a cherished colleague, D Durimel, who had been perceiving shortness of breath, lack of resistance/support mechanisms, and misguided direction for vocal tract shape efficiency in favour of resonance strategy. In a few minutes, while realizing her personal reasons for getting off track, she was able to rephrase Verdi’s Lux Aeterna (Requiem excerpt) and understood that over compensation in the form of unnecessary jaw depression is excessive and losing sight of rhythmic context can be detrimental.
This video exemplifies teaching a wider public the notion of simple coordination details for easing into the complexity of reaching towards the higher end of the vocal tessitura.
Above, Clemence Jeanson, brilliant singer, explores how exercises liberate her breath, despite examining listening, analyzing and emitting sound in deliberate, simultaneous codependent actions.
KAREN WIERZBA 