Introduction: Private Voice Lessons
The Art of Singing with Joanne Vecchio
Sing from your heart: Touch a Listeners Soul.
Combining the traditional style of vocal instruction with music, poetry and visual arts.
Ages 7 - Adult
Classes will focus on vocal techinique: practicing, vocalizing and breathing. Technique will be transferred from vocalizes to songs emphasizing vocal health, beauty of tone and effective musical interpretation. Song Anthology will be a mixture of folk songs, songs from movies and musical theatre, art songs, as well as contemporary styles of music and student work.
Musical interpretation instruction will be based on The Performance Cycle, an instructional model developed by the Arts Literacy Project through the Education Department at Brown University in accordance with research clearly demonstrating the strong casual link between arts-learning and academic performance.
The Performance Cycle provides teachers and artists with the framework for engaging students in a process of deep comprehension by building learning through centering on a text; in this case the lyrics of a song.
Students will also include a basic music theory, performance technique and voice placement, singing all musical styles.
CD Recordings of students voice, as well as video's of performance / rehearsals will be made and used for teaching purposes.
Students will be encouraged to write their own lyrics and songs.
Student will also be encouraged to plan and star in their own solo show here in the Theatre at Second Stage Studio.
Singing Techniques: Building the Vocal Foundation
Breathing
Support
Focusing the Vocal Folds
Articulation
Dynamics
Vibrato
Vocal Color Resonance
Lower and Uppoer Registers
The Pop Sound
The Lower Mix
Blues
Improvasation
Vocal Colors / Dymanics
Pronunciation
Phrasing
Musical Theatre
Jazz
Classical Singing
Vocal Health
Second Stage Studio is designed to create a warm, friendly and engaging environment inviting each and everyone who enters to become inspired; to let go and let the spirit of creativity take hold of them. We believe that the creative arts are essential elements in education, in learning, in developing, in maturing. Students at Second Stage Studio are learning to express themselves via the written and spoken word taking the shape of prose, poetry, song, art and performance. They communicate; they contemplate; they collaborate; they create. They are Student Artists. They have been encouraged to tell their own stories and they are. We are learning from them.
Member:
National Association of Teachers of Singing, Inc
National Association for Music Education
America for the Arts
American Association of Community Theatre
