Suitable for all voice users - students, teachers, therapists, speakers.                       This interactive workshop will cover:

Basic anatomy of the larynx and vocal tract

• How the vocal tract produces sound
• How voice quality changes for different styles of singing
• Estill definitions of Belt, Twang, Falsetto and other voice qualities
• Introduction to Estill Voice Training                                                             
• For more information contact jcaire@optusnet.com.au

Singing Teaching for Beginners...

Beginning to teach singing? Teaching beginners to sing?

This workshop will look at developing technique for beginners, using Estill concepts to facilitate healthy efficient vocal production.

It is open to all singing teachers but is equally appropriate for singers and therapists.

Registration and pre-payment essential.

The Full Estill Course
July 2 - 9, 2012, Blackburn North, Victoria

Presented by Jenny Caire and Naomi Eyers

Would you like to:

• Understand what is happening in your vocal tract when you make a particular sound?
• Control breathy tone?
• Increase your projection and resonance?
• Sing loudly and safely?
• Know how to prevent vocal damage?
• Manage the break in your voice?
• Sing with different qualities for different vocal styles?

THIS COURSE IS FOR YOU!!!

The Estill Voice Training System is the only comprehensive program for studying and teaching voice that applies to all styles of speaking and singing.

What will I learn?

• Basic anatomy of your vocal instrument
• How to monitor and control the different structures that create and change vocal quality
• Many different ways to improve your vocal technique and ‘support’ the tone
• What is safe, healthy singing and how to avoid vocal trauma
• How to increase your range, strength and stamina when singing
• How to change your technique to sing appropriately for different styles including opera, pop, music theatre and jazz

Level 1 
Compulsory Figures for Voice – 13 structures which can be independently controlled to influence vocal tone.

Level 2 
Voice Qualities - Speech, Twang (nasal and clear), Falsetto, Sob, Opera and Belting. 

Each participant will receive individual feedback and monitoring to ensure that all concepts are understood and applied correctly.

The emphasis from the start will be on voicing individually and as a group to reinforce technical ideas.

There will be a masterclass on the final day in which participants have opportunity to apply the skills they have learned and receive feedback regarding application to repertoire and style.

Further information & registration forms contact: jcaire@optusnet.com.au

Functional Anatomy: from Lungs to Lips via Larynx!

A Voice Workshop for Singers, Teachers and all Voice Users

This interactive workshop will cover:

• Basic anatomy of the larynx and vocal tract
• How the vocal tract produces sound 
• How voice quality changes for different styles of singing
• Estill definitions of Belt, Twang, Falsetto and other voice qualities
• Introduction to Estill Voice Training


To register, go to voicewell.com.au and click the Registration Button

This course is intended for teachers and students of singing and actors. The Level One course teaches the tools to control vocal instrument. Students will learn EVT’s Figures to use better vocal structures are useful to sing every musical genre or to play every character.

This course begins with a review of the Level One Compulsory Figures for skill refinement, and then moves through discussion, training, and applications for each of the six voice qualities described above. With the structural control gained through Figures for Voice Control, students learn to "mix" each of the arbitrary voice quality "recipes." The advantages, limitations, and risks of each quality will be discussed, as well as appropriate application to repertoire. Once again, there will be a focus on production in the context of vocal health. During open coaching sessions, singers may present pieces of their own choosing, focusing on mastering the elements of a new quality or exploring the expressive boundaries of using multiple qualities in a single selection.  Prerequisite: Certificate of Attendance from a Level One Course in Estill Voice Training.

Fees:

• 1CE credit: $525 per session
• ASHA CEUs: $75 per session
• Non-credit: $375 per session
• Auditors: $145 per session
• Discounted tuition for Levels One and Two together: 2 CE credits: $890; Non-credit: $645
• Materials fees (to be paid with tuition): Session One: $35; Session Two: $25
• All plus $35 NEC registration fee

There will likely be an additional fee for ASHA CEUs.

Visit the course link at www.NECmusic.edu to learn more and to register.

In Level Two, the sound effect "ingredients" discovered in Level One are mixed into "recipes" to produce voice qualities such as opera, belting, sob (a "crooning" quality), falsetto (as in the vibrato-less sound of some early music), twang (as in a role like Oklahoma's Ado Annie), and speech.  This course begins with a Level One review and then moves through discussion, training, and applications for each of the six voice qualities described about.  The advantages, limitations, and risks of each quality will be discussed, as well as appropriate application to repertoire. Course days provide a variety of learning environments: classroom presentations, practice sessions, and open coaching sessions, during which students may present pieces of their own choosing--ideally with problems to be solved. The principles of Estill Voice Training apply to beginning and advanced singers, voice teachers, voice therapists, choral conductors, and actors.  Estill Voice Training promotes both vocal versatility and vocal health. Prerequisite: Level One Attendance Certificate.

Registration will be processed on-line at New England Conservatory's website: www.necmusic.edu/ce/estill.  The registration process links appear below the course description.

All participants will receive a course attendance certificate with instructional hours for professional development credits. 

Speech-Language Pathologists will earn 2.35 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).  

Tuition for Levels I and II - materials fees included
1 CE Credit: $610 per level
Non-credit: $445 per level
Auditors: $145 per level

Discounted tuition for Levels I and II together - materials fees included
2 CE credits: $1,060
Non-credit: $760

Returning Student Tuition (Available to those who have completed Level I at NEC in previous Summers):
1 CE credit: $500
Non-credit: $335

All plus $40 NEC registration fee

Housing: available at a nearby campus. Call 617-585-1125 for information

This Level 2 Course will include a brief Level One Review* (Friday Night) as well as cover The Six Basic Esill Voice Qualities: Speech, Falsetto, Twang, Sob, Opera and Belt. The format will include lecture/presentation, discussion, group practice, open coaching and more.

*The Friday night Level One Review may be attended separately for $50.

Disconts may be available for full-time students with a valid ID

Level I & II presented by Charlotte Shorthouse & Helen Rowson, with Sarah Stephenson

Day 1-3            Level I –  Compulsory Figures for Voice (including an overview of vocal anatomy & physiology)
Day 4-5           Level II – Figure Combinations for Six Voice Qualities
 
You will be introduced to each new concept lecture-style with audio and visual illustrations then move into small groups to explore the Figures (vocal exercises) & Voice Qualities in more detail. During practice groups you work on your own voice and observe changes in others under the guidance of a Certified Master Teacher. You can opt to take part in an open session at the end of each day and receive model-specific individual coaching on a song or spoken piece of your choice.
 
These courses are for anyone new or returning to the Estill Model, a singer, actor, public speaker, teacher, performer or vocal health professional

Level I Days 1-3
Dates: 10th 11th & 12th April 2012
Times: 9.00am - 5.00pm
followed by an open session till 6.00pm

Level II Days 4-5
Dates: 13th & 14th April 2012
Times: 9.00am - 5.00pm
followed by an open session till 6.00pm 0n the 13th only

15% discount at The Lanes Brighton car park and
discounted room rates also available

This Full Estill Course is open to anyone interested in learning more about how the voice works and how to gain control of the structures which determine vocal quality. This includes speakers, singers, teachers and performers of all styles. Level One will introduce the figures – exercises to control of the structures of the vocal tract – and Level Two will explore different vocal qualities used in classical & contemporary singing, music theatre and also in the spoken voice.

Please Note: If you have previously completed a course and already have the course workbooks, please contact Jenny for reduced course fee.