Music-voice training
Jane studied voice at the Conservatoire de Lausanne and completed a graduate diploma in voice and music with the Societé Suisse de Pédagogie Musicale. She has worked as a soprano soloist, a professional choir member with the Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne and a voice trainer. She works closely with local speech therapists to help singers overcome voice damage and combines this expertise to assist individuals who are seeking fuller self-expression in regard to the music they most enjoy.
Singing and Psychology
Presentation given on the 6th December, 2005 at the Department of Pedagogy, University of Northern Illiois, Chicago and on the 20th May, 2007 at the Department of Music, Taiwan National University, Taiwan
I am here today to talk to you about our role as singing teachers in accompanying our students along the pathway of voice training and the need to be aware of how we affect them in their psychological development and personal growth within this privileged relationship. I want to talk about six areas where, I believe, we can avoid the misuse of the privileged position we have and can create a facilitating environment for learning and personal development.
- Teaching Environment
- Psychological influences/aspects of the voice
- Holism
- Listening/ Empathy
- Respect/ Trust
- Self awareness
Through research and psychological studies, it seems that human beings establish functioning personalities by the age of five. I would say our first ten years impact how we learn to use our voices.