Podcasts about voice performance

Manuele Mizzi is a Jamaican-Italian tenor, Manuele Adrian Mizzi discovered his love for performing at a very young age. Growing up in Markham he attended Unionville High School for the Arts later obtaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Voice Performance from York University under the tutelage of renowned Canadian operatic soprano Stephanie Bogle and having also studied with renowned European soprano Galina Lumkosky. With a repertoire ranging from pop to musical theatre to opera and classical, he has performed in a wide variety of venues throughout North America. His musical theatre credits include performing the roles of Schroeder in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Japheth in Two by Two, Thomas in Emmanuel the Musical (New York City), Barnaby in Hello Dolly, Shrek in Shrek Tateh in Ragtime, The Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz, and Dickon in The Secret Garden among many others.As a soloist, Manuele Adrian Mizzi has performed with The Neapolitan Connection, Vocal Horizons Chamber Choir, Greater Toronto Philharmonic, All the King's Voice's and the Burlington Civic Choir among others.Manuele Adrian Mizzi also has a long career of teaching under his belt. As an avid pianist, accompanist, musical director and director, he has been working with all ages from 3-99 for the last 23 years. His directing and musical directing credits include musicals, plays, pantos and recitals. Doctor Bird Productions is his next foray into the performing world - a place to bring his love of direction, performing and colaboration together. The doctor bird is Jamaica's national bird and his love of his heritage and love for the beauty of the animal world helped him bring this new company to life to soar like the great hummingbird.  Carlos Bastarrachea is playing Jekyll/Hyde in Doctor Bird Production of Jekyll and Jyde the musical as well as "Phoebus" in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and “Pirelli” in Sweeney Todd. This is his second show after moving to Canada from his hometown in Mexico City. Prior to Doctor Bird, his previous roles include Speing Awakening (Melchior), Once on This Island (Daniel) and Lion King (Timon). Carlos and his darling wife Emilia would like to thank Manuele and Ethan for a second chance at making magic and encouraging representation from people with disabilities. Doctor Bird Productions is looking to bring something fresh and new to Toronto's performance world.   We want to put on productions that stretch the imagination, that bring smiles to peoples faces and help to make people walk away with new thoughts and new ideas.  We hope to put on new productions in Canada and hope to reimagine shows that have been so important to the makeup of Torontos performance world.  We are committed to the practice of color-conscious casting. We recognize that considerations of race, including how race and ethnicity shape society and the stories we tell, are vital components to the casting process. Also critical to the casting process are audience perceptions of race on stage and in film. 

⁠⁠⁠Support Boss Rush on Patreon!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ This week on The Boss Rush Podcast, Stephanie, LeRon, and Corey are joined by voice and motion capture actor Nick Apostolides, famous for his role as Leon S. Kennedy in Resident Evil's 2 and 4 REmakes as well as Infinite Darkness, to discuss his career in acting, stunt acting, motion capture, and his major fandom of the series. Follow Nick Apostolides: ⁠Twitter⁠ ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠Website⁠ ⁠Linktree⁠ Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Pre-Show 4:17 - Favorite Piece of Video Game Trivia 17:30 - Welcome to the Boss Rush Podcast 28:35 - Housekeeping 33:25 - What We've Been Playing 33:41 - Jacob's Games 42:39 - LeRon's Games 46:33 - Corey's Games 47:50 - A 3D Zelda Conversation 56:31 - Patreon Producers 56:59 - Banter of the Week: Dormant Franchises 1:08:51 - Community Write-ins 1:11:20 - Events and Conferences 1:19:44 - S-Tier Consoles 1:25:26 - Thanks for Watching Check out: Discord: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/UzgESUtN8z⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bossrush.net/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Store: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://tee.pub/lic/bossrushnetwork⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Us: Boss Rush Network: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/BossRushNetwork⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Corey Dirrig: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/iamCoreyinHD⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LeRon Dawkins: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/Exodus803⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Stephanie Klimov: ⁠https://x.com/klimov_author⁠ Thank you for watching or listening to The Boss Rush Podcast, the flagship podcast of Boss Rush Media and The Boss Rush Network. If you enjoyed this discussion, consider leaving us a rating and a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. If you're watching the video on YouTube, hit the Subscribe button and Like the video. You can support the Boss Rush Family of Podcasts on the Boss Rush Network Patreon. As always, your listenership and viewership is enough for us. It means more than you realize. Thank you for supporting The Boss Rush Network‘s independent endeavor.

Melissa shares one of her most vulnerable moments as a voice & performance coach, which also sparked a 10-year journey into a developing a method that helps singers show up and perform the way they've always dreamed of. PLUS - a super special announcement that will get you fired up to get out there and perform with PASSION! Let's connect over on Instagram and don't forget to leave a review! RESOURCES: SLAY THE STAGE workshop - begins July 8, 2024 Join the NEW Passionate Performer Program Ep. 54: Anxiety - My Superpower Ep. 43: When you DON'T get the gig Ep. 27: How to fill your artistic cup Follow @mvcperformance on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook & YouTube ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.mvcperformance.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ MUSIC: "Cafecito with the Coach" Theme Music by Melissa V. Cartwright © 2022 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/melissa-v-cartwrigh/support

In this episode I sit down with speech language pathologist (SLP) Ashley Michaelis to discuss: Similarities between the voice box and pelvic floor Relationship between voice, breathing and pelvic floorMissed connections in the researchWays we can use the pelvic floor to train the voice and the voice to train the pelvic floorHow sounds we make in birth influence the pelvic floorNoises we make in sport to increase performance Ashley Michaelis (she/her/hers) embarked on her undergraduate journey in Voice Performance & Music Education at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Music. During her studies, she encountered personal voice challenges which led her to discover Speech-Language Pathology. Motivated to assist others in rehabilitating their voices, Ashley changed her major and pursued her graduate degree at the University of Wyoming. Her professional journey has included diverse settings such as private practice, schools, outpatient and inpatient rehabilitation, acute care, and multidisciplinary clinics. Ashley has also shared her expertise by teaching the Voice Disorders graduate level class at the University of Vermont. Her specialized areas encompass singing voice rehabilitation, voice disorders, swallowing disorders, upper airway disorders, and neurogenic communication disorders. Recognized for her achievements, Ashley is an ASHA Ace Award Recipient and serves as a Lead Mentor for the MedSLP Collective. She has been a featured guest on podcasts including Swallow Your Pride and Start Your Private Practice. Outside of her career, Ashley enjoys spending quality time with her family and dogs, as well as participating in local community theater performances. How to contact Ashleywww.empoweredvoicerehab.org Instagram Facebook LINKS MENTIONED: Pelvic floor screening tool:  www.pelvicsanity.com/screening THANK YOU TO THE EPISODE SPONSORSSRC: discount code and website: https://srchealth.com/?ref=Sto_l3PawmnH4PELVIC HEALTH SUPPLIES: https://pelvichealthsupplies.com/ with discount code: podcast15Thanks for joining me! Here is where you can find out how to work with me:  www.pelvicfloorprojectspace.com/Support the Show.

Doctor Bird Productions⁠ is looking to bring something fresh and new to Toronto's performance world.   We want to put on productions that stretch the imagination, that bring smiles to peoples faces and help to make people walk away with new thoughts and new ideas.  We hope to put on new productions in Canada and hope to reimagine shows that have been so important to the makeup of Torontos performance world.  We are committed to the practice of color-conscious casting. We recognize that considerations of race, including how race and ethnicity shape society and the stories we tell, are vital components to the casting process. Also critical to the casting process are audience perceptions of race on stage and in film. We strive to craft performances in ways that respect, care for, and honor individuals, cultures, and communities of color. Furthermore, we recognize that the practice of white-washing erases culturally and racially specific stories and experiences. White-washing takes away opportunities from people of color and reinforces the dangerous notion of white superiority. Therefore, we reject this practice. In light of this, we seek to be inclusive and color-conscious not only in our casting but also in the material we choose to stage. Manuele Adrian Mizzi Jamaican-Italian tenor, Manuele Adrian Mizzi discovered his love for performing at a very young age. Growing up in Markham he attended Unionville High School for the Arts later obtaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Voice Performance from York University under the tutelage of renowned Canadian operatic soprano Stephanie Bogle and having also studied with renowned European soprano Galina Lumkosky. With a repertoire ranging from pop to musical theatre to opera and classical, he has performed in a wide variety of venues throughout North America. His musical theatre credits include performing the roles of Schroeder in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Japheth in Two by Two, Thomas in Emmanuel the Musical (New York City), Barnaby in Hello Dolly, Shrek in Shrek Tateh in Ragtime, The Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz, and Dickon in The Secret Garden among many others.Manuele Adrian Mizzi also has a long career of teaching under his belt. As an avid pianist, accompanist, musical director and director, he has been working with all ages from 3-99 for the last 23 years. His directing and musical directing credits include musicals, plays, pantos and recitals. Ethan Rotenberg Ethan is a Toronto-based music director and classically-trained pianist who's has been described as "delivering all the colours of an orchestra" (Schmopera), "an accomplished accompanist" (Richard Ouzonian), and "brilliantly drawing the listener into the world of the story by using the piano as the backdrop to sweeping, emotionally nuanced melodies" (Mooney on Theatre). He frequently collaborates with both Opera and Musical Theatre singers on productions, concerts, and open mics, most recently serving as music director and performance accompanist for The No Frills Revue (Spotlight Musical Productions). Having grown up in theatre and music, he has enjoyed both sides of the stage, graduating from Queen's University with a Bachelors in Drama and Music. He currently trains with world-renowned pianist Dmitri Levkovich. In 2019, he co-founded and is current music director of Impromptu Concert Series, presenting concerts featuring the Toronto's top non-professional talent, bringing the series outdoors during the Covid-19 pandemic as The Front-Lawn Series. Previous musical credits include: Songbook VI, Songbook XII (Tapestry Opera), Dr. Silver (Musical Stage Co.) Legally Blonde, The Drowsy Chaperone, Mamma Mia (Nightwood Theatre), Masterclass (Oshawa Little Theatre), Ragtime (Encores). HEmilia Basllester Is a Mexican dancer, actor singer and photographer living in Toronto. She studied dance perfromance at Centennial College and phtography at Escuela Activa De Fotografia.

Katherine Lazaruk is a professional presence expert who helps leaders and their teams walk the walk, talk the talk and look the part. She is passionate about achieving gender parity in her lifetime and through her coaching, consulting, and speaking. She works with women and champions of women to get more women into senior leadership faster. Recognizing that we are currently in a shifting paradigm, she works within the system to change the system for teams and individuals alike to create a kinder, gentler, and more effective world. Katherine holds degrees in Voice Performance and Education and holds her second-level international designation of Certified Image Professional (CIP) with the Association of Image Consultants International (AICI) and her Professional Certified Coach (PCC) designation with the International Coach Federation (ICF). She has also been Vice-Chair of the Women's Leadership Council Advisory Committee with the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade and served for six years as the Secretary of the AICI Canada Chapter Board. She has been a member of the nominations committee for the YWCA Vancouver Women of Distinction Awards and volunteered with two of their programs for women, sharing her expertise on professional presence, and currently serves on the Global DEI Committee for AICI. Katherine lives in Vancouver and spends her spare time singing with an eighteen-piece vintage jazz big band, writing and publishing books of “long stories in short poems” (katherinelazaruk.com), and hanging out at concerts and movies with her husband and her wide circle of friends. She enjoys challenging conversations, is relentlessly curious, and can be slightly irreverent from time to time. Connect with Katherine!Facebook LinkedIn Instagram

In The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India (Duke UP, 2022) Rumya Sree Putcha theorizes how the Indian classical dancer performs the complex dynamics of transnational Indian womanhood. Putcha argues that the public persona of the Indian dancer has come to represent India in the global imagination—a representation that supports caste hierarchies and Hindu ethnonationalism, as well as white supremacist model minority narratives. Generations of Indian women have been encouraged to embody the archetype of the dancer, popularized through film cultures from the 1930s to the present. Through analyses of films, immigration and marriage laws, histories of caste and race, advertising campaigns, and her own family's heirlooms, photographs, and memories, Putcha reveals how women's citizenship is based on separating their voices from their bodies. In listening closely to and for the dancer's voice, she offers a new way to understand the intersections of body, voice, performance, caste, race, gender, and nation. Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College. Lakshita Malik is a doctoral student in the department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work focuses on questions of intimacies, class, gender, and beauty in South Asia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India (Duke UP, 2022) Rumya Sree Putcha theorizes how the Indian classical dancer performs the complex dynamics of transnational Indian womanhood. Putcha argues that the public persona of the Indian dancer has come to represent India in the global imagination—a representation that supports caste hierarchies and Hindu ethnonationalism, as well as white supremacist model minority narratives. Generations of Indian women have been encouraged to embody the archetype of the dancer, popularized through film cultures from the 1930s to the present. Through analyses of films, immigration and marriage laws, histories of caste and race, advertising campaigns, and her own family's heirlooms, photographs, and memories, Putcha reveals how women's citizenship is based on separating their voices from their bodies. In listening closely to and for the dancer's voice, she offers a new way to understand the intersections of body, voice, performance, caste, race, gender, and nation. Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College. Lakshita Malik is a doctoral student in the department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work focuses on questions of intimacies, class, gender, and beauty in South Asia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

In The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India (Duke UP, 2022) Rumya Sree Putcha theorizes how the Indian classical dancer performs the complex dynamics of transnational Indian womanhood. Putcha argues that the public persona of the Indian dancer has come to represent India in the global imagination—a representation that supports caste hierarchies and Hindu ethnonationalism, as well as white supremacist model minority narratives. Generations of Indian women have been encouraged to embody the archetype of the dancer, popularized through film cultures from the 1930s to the present. Through analyses of films, immigration and marriage laws, histories of caste and race, advertising campaigns, and her own family's heirlooms, photographs, and memories, Putcha reveals how women's citizenship is based on separating their voices from their bodies. In listening closely to and for the dancer's voice, she offers a new way to understand the intersections of body, voice, performance, caste, race, gender, and nation. Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College. Lakshita Malik is a doctoral student in the department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work focuses on questions of intimacies, class, gender, and beauty in South Asia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/performing-arts

In The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India (Duke UP, 2022) Rumya Sree Putcha theorizes how the Indian classical dancer performs the complex dynamics of transnational Indian womanhood. Putcha argues that the public persona of the Indian dancer has come to represent India in the global imagination—a representation that supports caste hierarchies and Hindu ethnonationalism, as well as white supremacist model minority narratives. Generations of Indian women have been encouraged to embody the archetype of the dancer, popularized through film cultures from the 1930s to the present. Through analyses of films, immigration and marriage laws, histories of caste and race, advertising campaigns, and her own family's heirlooms, photographs, and memories, Putcha reveals how women's citizenship is based on separating their voices from their bodies. In listening closely to and for the dancer's voice, she offers a new way to understand the intersections of body, voice, performance, caste, race, gender, and nation. Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College. Lakshita Malik is a doctoral student in the department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work focuses on questions of intimacies, class, gender, and beauty in South Asia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

In The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India (Duke UP, 2022) Rumya Sree Putcha theorizes how the Indian classical dancer performs the complex dynamics of transnational Indian womanhood. Putcha argues that the public persona of the Indian dancer has come to represent India in the global imagination—a representation that supports caste hierarchies and Hindu ethnonationalism, as well as white supremacist model minority narratives. Generations of Indian women have been encouraged to embody the archetype of the dancer, popularized through film cultures from the 1930s to the present. Through analyses of films, immigration and marriage laws, histories of caste and race, advertising campaigns, and her own family's heirlooms, photographs, and memories, Putcha reveals how women's citizenship is based on separating their voices from their bodies. In listening closely to and for the dancer's voice, she offers a new way to understand the intersections of body, voice, performance, caste, race, gender, and nation. Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College. Lakshita Malik is a doctoral student in the department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work focuses on questions of intimacies, class, gender, and beauty in South Asia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

In The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India (Duke UP, 2022) Rumya Sree Putcha theorizes how the Indian classical dancer performs the complex dynamics of transnational Indian womanhood. Putcha argues that the public persona of the Indian dancer has come to represent India in the global imagination—a representation that supports caste hierarchies and Hindu ethnonationalism, as well as white supremacist model minority narratives. Generations of Indian women have been encouraged to embody the archetype of the dancer, popularized through film cultures from the 1930s to the present. Through analyses of films, immigration and marriage laws, histories of caste and race, advertising campaigns, and her own family's heirlooms, photographs, and memories, Putcha reveals how women's citizenship is based on separating their voices from their bodies. In listening closely to and for the dancer's voice, she offers a new way to understand the intersections of body, voice, performance, caste, race, gender, and nation. Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College. Lakshita Malik is a doctoral student in the department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work focuses on questions of intimacies, class, gender, and beauty in South Asia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/south-asian-studies

In The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India (Duke UP, 2022) Rumya Sree Putcha theorizes how the Indian classical dancer performs the complex dynamics of transnational Indian womanhood. Putcha argues that the public persona of the Indian dancer has come to represent India in the global imagination—a representation that supports caste hierarchies and Hindu ethnonationalism, as well as white supremacist model minority narratives. Generations of Indian women have been encouraged to embody the archetype of the dancer, popularized through film cultures from the 1930s to the present. Through analyses of films, immigration and marriage laws, histories of caste and race, advertising campaigns, and her own family's heirlooms, photographs, and memories, Putcha reveals how women's citizenship is based on separating their voices from their bodies. In listening closely to and for the dancer's voice, she offers a new way to understand the intersections of body, voice, performance, caste, race, gender, and nation. Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College. Lakshita Malik is a doctoral student in the department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work focuses on questions of intimacies, class, gender, and beauty in South Asia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India (Duke UP, 2022) Rumya Sree Putcha theorizes how the Indian classical dancer performs the complex dynamics of transnational Indian womanhood. Putcha argues that the public persona of the Indian dancer has come to represent India in the global imagination—a representation that supports caste hierarchies and Hindu ethnonationalism, as well as white supremacist model minority narratives. Generations of Indian women have been encouraged to embody the archetype of the dancer, popularized through film cultures from the 1930s to the present. Through analyses of films, immigration and marriage laws, histories of caste and race, advertising campaigns, and her own family's heirlooms, photographs, and memories, Putcha reveals how women's citizenship is based on separating their voices from their bodies. In listening closely to and for the dancer's voice, she offers a new way to understand the intersections of body, voice, performance, caste, race, gender, and nation. Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College. Lakshita Malik is a doctoral student in the department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work focuses on questions of intimacies, class, gender, and beauty in South Asia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/indian-religions

On this week's Podcast, Looney Tunes History is highlighted as well as Director of Looney Tunes Cartoons, Ryan Kramer drops by to discuss tackling these larger than life characters for a modern audience! Congratulations to friend of the podcast and vocal superstar Eric Bauza on his first Emmy win! Eric won the Emmy for Voice Performance on Looney Tunes Cartoons where he plays, Bugs, Tweety, Daffy, Marvin the Martian and more! Director Spotlight: Ryan Kramer After getting his start in animation, he was nominated for his first Annie for his work on Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness before being tapped by Pete Browngardt to work on Uncle Grandpa! These connections placed him perfectly to step into the director chair on a plethora of Looney Tunes shorts for the HBOMax series!   Shorts Discussed: (There are more than what's on this list so just be aware that you may have to stop the show if you're watching along) Rhino Ya Don't - Sylvester and Tweety at the Zoo; inspired by the Friz Freleng Tweet Zoo (1957) Multiply and Conquer; Wile e finally catches Road Runner but less is more.  Key-Tastrophe; Inspired by Daffy Doc directed by Bob Clampett. Ho Ho Go; Holiday Special short. Falling For it; ends with a beaten up and on fire porky busting through the classic WB animation drum to exclaim that's all folks for the end. What an end! They also acknowledge their full names of Daffy Duck and Porky Pig when Daffy mistakenly says their cats.  Pest Coaster; the classic Bugs' in Drag gag returns. and more!! Happy Holidays from the Podcast! Follow the Director: FOLLOW THE GUEST: Twitter: https://twitter.com/toonholeryan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toonholeryan/ READ ABOUT ERIC'S WIN: Read More: Bugs Bunny Win's First Emmy EVER! Comment below with your favorite short Ryan directed! FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST: @ThisMeansPod Rate, Subscribe & Like on iTunes, Spotify and more! Instagram: THIS MEANS PODCAST  

We are delighted to share our latest podcast episode “Into the Singing Studio” with Dr. Rebecca Loar. This episode showcases Dr. Loar's career as a vocalist, and her research into vocal health. We discussed her work with her students in the Department of Music and how we can all take proper care of our voices across our lives. After degrees in vocal and opera performance from Samford University and the Manhattan School of Music, Dr. Loar earned her Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice Performance with a cognate in Choral Conducting from the University of South Carolina. Her doctoral dissertation was “Singing Voice Specialization, an Essential Bridge Between Two Worlds,” discussing the need for medical arts specialists. An active performing artist, Dr. Loar has performed many opera roles and concert works, and is a former member of the New York Choral Artists where she performed with the New York Philharmonic, the American Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Society of St. Lukes, and the Little Orchestra Society of New York. She has worked under the batons of Maestros Kurt Masur, Leonard Slatkin, Leon Botstien, Pierre Boulez, Seiji Osawa, and more. Dr. Loar has been teaching voice for over twenty years and is an active vocal adjudicator and clinician throughout the Southeast. Her students perform on Broadway and in national Broadway tours, in summer opera programs and for major cruise lines. Many of her students have entered advanced conservatory graduate programs such as Manhattan School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory and Boston University. Listen as we learn about the important work Dr. Loar is doing in her teaching studio here at UNCP, which ensures healthy singing for her students as they make music here on campus and across our community. Find the episode transcript here and join Dr. Loar in the concert she mentions with UNCP Music colleagues Drs. Jaeyoon and Seung Ah Kim on Monday, January 30th, 2023 at 7:30 PM in Moore Hall Auditorium, free admission and no tickets required.  Visit https://www.uncp.edu/departments/music/calendar-events for more UNCP Music events and information.   Follow UNCP's College of Arts and Sciences  on Facebook, Twitter@uncpcas and Instagram@uncpcas

Super excited to announce new guest, Karen Blanchard, to The Story!Karen Blanchard earned a Master of Music Degree in Voice Performance and a Master of Music Degree in Choral Conducting from Temple University. She has sung with various professional choral ensembles throughout the Philadelphia area such as Opera Philadelphia, Philadelphia Singers, the Bridge Ensemble, the Spoleto Music Festival Chorus, and Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia. Karen currently sings with Philadelphia's premier contemporary music ensemble, The Crossing. Locally, she received high praise for her notable performance as soprano soloist in Berio's Folksongs with the Lancaster Symphony. Karen serves full time as the Director of Worship Arts at Community EC in Sinking Spring. She also supports and coaches local worship teams by providing vocal training workshops for churches throughout the Lancaster and Berk counties. Karen co-leads the Berks County Worship Collective, a group that meets once a month to support and encourage each other as well as leading worship for various multi-church worship events. Karen lives in Brownstown with her orchestral percussionist husband, Tom.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-story/donations

2022.09.12 - 0620 – Don't Introduce An Excuse For Your Poor Voice Performance· “Yeah, I'm rubbish today because the cat was sick, I had a row with my daughter and I the bus was late” – Everyone has a similar story, and they don't need to hear about yours. Winding yourself up will only make you nervous. Instead: Breathe, relax, de-stress with the exercises we've already gone through. Listen to the direction, and to how you follow it in your read. Be positive and collaborative. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, we hear from conductor Brandon Eldredge and soprano Tessa McQueen about Act One of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer's chamber opera, TWO REMAIN. Act One focuses on the true story of Polish poet Krystyna Zywulska surviving the Holocaust – and the psychological trauma she dealt with the rest of her life. It's based on her searing memoir of 1946, “I Survived Auschwitz.” Brandon and Tessa share more about Krystyna's life, about how challenging it is to perform and interpret a story of this magnitude, and how important it is to keep telling these stories. Brandon Eldredge has built a broad-scoped knowledge and experience as a conductor, pianist, and operatic coach, working across the United States, Germany, and Sweden. He is CCO's Associate Conductor and Chorus Master this summer, working on all three productions. During the year, he is on staff at Virginia Opera as Assistant Conductor and Chorus Master. Soprano Tessa McQueen is a first year Studio Artist in the Bonfils-Stanton Artists Training Program, and in addition to her role of Krystyna Zywulska in TWO REMAIN, she is in the chorus of Die Fledermaus and several opera scenes for the Short Works performances. Tessa received her Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance from Oklahoma City University and will begin her Master's degree at Rice University this fall. Have questions or want to provide feedback? Email us at podcast@centralcityopera.org. To hear more stories from inside Central City Opera and buy tickets to the shows, visit us at centralcityopera.org.  

If you're anything like me, you probably start your day with hot coffee and short prayers. Lord, give me strength, help me wake up, please make the baby sleep a little bit longer, please be the patience I come up short with. You might be mentally reviewing and ordering your tasks for the day, or you might prefer to wing it. You might be readying children for school or gearing up for “long days of small things” with your littles, as the author and theologian Catherine McNiel so aptly phrases it in her book of the same name. Whatever season of mothering you are in, I imagine your plate is full and your capacity for care might be waning. You are doing all that you can and trusting that God's grace will provide for all that falls through the cracks, and these days, it may feel like pretty much everything is. Momma Theologians Practical/ Prayerful Takeaways 1. Ask Holy Spirit to show you if there are any areas in your life where you could more wholeheartedly support the wellbeing of your family? 2. Do something out of the ordinary for your kids—bake them a batch of chocolate chip cookies on a Wednesday afternoon and tell them (and yourself) how delicious God's love is! 3. There are 221 references to the word “build” in the ESV translation of Scripture. Spend some time on biblegateway.com reading through the verses referencing this word. Pick one Scripture to re-write in your own words, and meditate on what God is showing you through this verse or passage. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DEVOTIONAL NEWSLETTER TO STAY CONNECTED WITH OUR MINISTRY Go to www.mommatheologians.com Find articles and essays written by mothers just like you as they share stories and reflections about how they grow spiritually in Christ in the midst of motherhood. Join our community on Instagram @mommatheologians ______________ Momma Theologians Contributor Kelsi Folsom Kelsi Folsom is a poet and singer making her home in beautiful Kansas City with her husband and four young children. She navigates the ups and downs of marriage and motherhood with black coffee, her library card, and a no.2 pencil. Her essays and poems are published in Motherly, Coffee and Crumbs, Grit and Virtue, Verily Magazine, Mothers Always Write, Kindred Mom, and elsewhere. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Breaking the Jar (Finishing Line Press, 2022), Buried in the Margins (Finishing Line Press, 2020), and Words the Dirt Meant to Share (Desert Willow Press, 2018). Having lived in multiple countries and moved fourteen times since getting married, Kelsi loves encouraging women to find refreshment and comfort in the moment-by-moment friendship of Jesus Christ. She firmly believes in the power of true worship to foster healing through the embodiment of God's unconditional love. When she isn't cooking for family and friends, she enjoys thrifting, reading Bible commentaries, and occasionally putting her B.M. in Voice Performance to good use. Connect with her on IG @kelsifolsom and sign up for her quarterly newsletter The Shameless Beauty Digest.

Valencia Callens Neptune is Founder & CEO of the independent record label and artistdevelopment company, So Am I-Worthy. She's a singer and songwriter who received aMaster's of Music in Voice & Opera, and a Bachelor's of Music in Voice & Performance. Asouthern woman born and raised in Alabama, Valencia has dominated several world-classstages including Charleston Gaillard Center, Jemison Concert Hall and the prestigiousCarnegie Hall; as well as international stages as a soloist for the UAB Concert Choir Europeantour in 2014.Awards received by Valencia include the Metropolitan Opera National Council EncouragementAward, South Carolina District, and International Experience Award, Italian LanguageScholarship. However, Opera is not Valencia's primary genre. She has been singing since theage of eight in the genres of Gospel, Jazz and Contemporary Christian after the likes ofYolanda Adams, Nikki Ross, Cece Winans, Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Natalie King Cole,Whitney Houston, etc.

Featured teacher for Vocal Health Education and co-host of the Thinking Voice podcast, Robert Sussuma joins Alexa this week on Singing Teachers Talk. He's here to discuss how you can develop a singer's self awareness and clarifying intention. Robert will also be presenting at BAST's Focus On: The Body and the Singer event on the 27th of June.    KEY TAKEAWAYS Feldenkrais lessons are designed to work at the level where your system runs the system. They update you from within at this deep core nervous system level so that when you go to do things in a more conscious way, then the system is already there to support you.  In the Feldenkrais method there are two modalities for doing this, functional integration which is hands on and none verbal, and the other version is awareness through movement or ATMs, which are verbally led.  Teaching someone to become self aware involves a lot of novelty, telling them to do something strange or something they know how to do but in a totally new way. It's tricking the nervous system into paying attention through novelty.  These awareness lessons are like experiments outside of life that get deep into the system. When you come back to life, if the system has truly changed, there is a change in the self image, in the nervous system, in the foundation of how you act. The lesson will automatically have an effect on that action when you do that action again.    BEST MOMENTS ‘I have a student who calls it updating the motherboard'  ‘Working with novelty is really effective but strange compared to what most people do'  ‘The lesson isn't what we do, it's what we're learning having done it'  ‘We can all do the same lesson and learn something different'    EPISODE RESOURCES  BAST Training  Guest Website: @robert_sussuma   Relevant Links & Mentions:  BAST Focus On The Body & The Singer Event: https://www.basttraining.com/event/focus-on-the-body-and-the-singer/ Vocal Health Education: vocalhealth.co.uk The Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education  Thinking Voice Podcast - The Endings Conversation: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4WPhNUEgbRulnsf6OBd313?si=6e04fa1041bb4d38 Vocology in Practice: www.vocologyinpractice.org Singing Teachers Talk Podcast - Ep. 32 - The Bio-Psycho-Social Model with Stephen King: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4R13bvilWjwQnd9WOfTiVc?si=1ffb4c437bdd4f34 The Joys of Singing and Sex?!? - A Somatic Approach (Blog): https://thesingingself.com/joys-of-singing-and-sex-somatic-approach/ Sense and Sensuality Event: https://thesingingself.com/voice-incorporated-2022-sense-and-sensuality/   ABOUT THE GUEST  Robert Sussuma, a native New Yorker, is an explorer, a life-long learner and a connoisseur of connections: movement, speaking and singing, voice science, emotions, music history, motor learning, existentialism, neurology-in-action, consciousness and deep personal development - to name a few. His formal education is in vocal performance (Bachelors of Music in Voice Performance and Masters of Music in Early Music Voice Performance). Early in that training, he discovered the Feldenkrais® Method of Somatic Education and has seen the two fields as inseparable ever since. He is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner. Robert has taught Private Voice Lessons and Voice and Movement Classes at Naropa University (Boulder, Colorado), Haverford College (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and PACE University (New York, New York), and has maintained an active private studio for over 20 years, working with with well-known and successful actors and singers in NYC. Robert has also been a guest teacher at Harvard University, the University of Michigan and Barcelona University.  Robert now teaches mostly online working with singers of all kinds and training voice teachers to work somatically. He has created two extensive online courses THE SINGING SELF PROGRAM and THE SINGING SELF PROGRAM: TEACHER TRACK at www.thesingingself.com   ABOUT THE PODCAST BAST Training is here to help singers gain the knowledge, skills and understanding required to be a great singing teacher. We can help you whether you are getting started or just have some knowledge gaps to fill through our courses and educational events. Website: basttraining.com Get updates to your inbox: Click here for updates from BAST Training Link to presenter's bios: basttraining.com/singing-teachers-talk-podcast-bios See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joy Young, Ph.D. serves as the Vice President of Programs for South Arts and has more than 25 years of experience in the arts as an entrepreneurial performing artist, arts administrator, and academic. Joy's work as a performing artist included owning a successful music studio and performing as a recitalist, sanctuary soloist, and studio and background vocalist. Her 14-year tenure with the South Carolina Arts Commission was highlighted by serving on the executive leadership team as the agency Director of Administration, Human Resources, and Operations. Prior to joining South Arts, Joy served as the Executive Director of the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville.Joy enjoys sharing her experiences from the field in the classroom by preparing the next generation of arts administrators in the Master of Arts in Arts Administration at Winthrop University to be adaptive leaders. Joy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music, Master of Arts in Voice Performance, and the Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership. Her research interests include arts leadership, program assessment and evaluation, and organization and leadership adaptations amid dynamic environmental paradigms.

As we sit in the reality of the cost of love, of the God who submitted His own body to the brutality of a criminal's death on a cross in order to become bread and wine for all who are hungry and thirsty, let us prayerfully seek how we can better embody this extreme generosity of God towards our families, our neighbors, and our world. ((Read this full reflection here)) Momma Theologians Prayerful/Practical Takeaways Read Proverbs 18:24, and ask God to illuminate how Jesus might be inviting you into a deeper understanding of how he is the “friend who sticks closer than a brother.” How does this friendship affect how we lead our children? Ask God to bring to mind (or do an old fashioned google search) any organizations/marginalized people groups in your area that you can learn more about and perhaps volunteer with an organization that serves this specific population. Spend some time asking God to show you a few practical ways you can model the kind of generosity that builds bridges this week. Momma Theologians Contributor Kelsi Folsom Kelsi Folsom is a poet and singer making her home in beautiful Kansas City with her husband and four young children. She navigates the ups and downs of marriage and motherhood with black coffee, her library card, and a no.2 pencil. Her essays and poems are published in Motherly, Coffee and Crumbs, Grit and Virtue, Verily Magazine, Mothers Always Write, Kindred Mom, and elsewhere. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Breaking the Jar (Finishing Line Press, 2022), Buried in the Margins (Finishing Line Press, 2020), and Words the Dirt Meant to Share (Desert Willow Press, 2018). Having lived in multiple countries and moved fourteen times since getting married, Kelsi loves encouraging women to find refreshment and comfort in the moment-by-moment friendship of Jesus Christ. She firmly believes in the power of true worship to foster healing through the embodiment of God's unconditional love. When she isn't cooking for family and friends, she enjoys thrifting, reading Bible commentaries, and occasionally putting her B.M. in Voice Performance to good use. Connect with her on IG @kelsifolsom and sign up for her quarterly newsletter The Shameless Beauty Digest. ---------------- SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DEVOTIONAL NEWSLETTER TO STAY CONNECTED WITH OUR MINISTRY Go to www.mommatheologians.com to find articles and essays written by mothers just like you as they share stories and reflections about how they grow spiritually in Christ in the midst of motherhood. Join our community on Instagram @mommatheologians

Houston Chamber Choir speaks with educator Heather Orr. Heather is currently the Head Director of Choral Activities at Montgomery High School in Montgomery ISD. Heather holds a Master of Arts in Vocal Pedagogy from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Heidelberg University. Choirs under Heather Orr's direction have performed at the Texas Music Educators Association Convention (TMEA) in 2018, 2010, and 2005. In addition, they have performed at the National ACDA Conferences in 2021 (Dallas, TX/virtual) and in 2011 (Chicago, IL), as well as the SWACDA Divisional Conference (Oklahoma City, OK) in 2018.

Mother in a Rocking Chair Her hand was never more holy than now, gripped like a lifeboat of rescue and solace, interlaced with innocence and tiny bone perfection, the road-weary rudder of empty tummies and fitful sleeping. Hand extended—hush, hush, Fear suspended—sleep, sleep, Was this how Jesus felt when the three words winds responded to were “Hush, be still” and he held the ocean's rage within the quiet well of his wholeness? yes That's how she felt when the wailing stopped, her body's son relaxing in the singular grasp of her voice singing out his name. ---------------------------------------------------------- I have been singing my children to sleep since they were babies. As I hold their exhaustion close to my heart, I feel God encircle me and hold me, singing to me, pulling my head close to listen to the sacred dance of mothering hearts. - - - SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DEVOTIONAL NEWSLETTER TO STAY CONNECTED WITH OUR MINISTRY Go to www.mommatheologians.com to find articles and essays written by mothers just like you as they share stories and reflections about how they grow spiritually in Christ in the midst of motherhood. Join our community on Instagram @mommatheologians ___________ If this episode resonated with you in any way, would you share it with a friend? ____________ Momma Theologians Contributor Kelsi Folsom Kelsi Folsom is a poet and singer making her home in beautiful Kansas City with her husband and four young children. She navigates the ups and downs of marriage and motherhood with black coffee, her library card, and a no.2 pencil. Her essays and poems are published in Motherly, Coffee and Crumbs, Grit and Virtue, Verily Magazine, Mothers Always Write, Kindred Mom, and elsewhere. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Breaking the Jar (Finishing Line Press, 2022), Buried in the Margins (Finishing Line Press, 2020), and Words the Dirt Meant to Share (Desert Willow Press, 2018). Having lived in multiple countries and moved fourteen times since getting married, Kelsi loves encouraging women to find refreshment and comfort in the moment-by-moment friendship of Jesus Christ. She firmly believes in the power of true worship to foster healing through the embodiment of God's unconditional love. When she isn't cooking for family and friends, she enjoys thrifting, reading Bible commentaries, and occasionally putting her B.M. in Voice Performance to good use. Connect with her on IG @kelsifolsom and sign up for her quarterly newsletter The Shameless Beauty Digest.

How to Study the Bible | with Momma Theologians Kelsi Folsom + Amy Fischer Has your time in God's word ever felt lackluster? Momma Theologians contributors Amy Fischer and Kelsi Folsom talk about different methods of Bible study to help you dig deeper into God's Word. From inductive study and commentaries to contemplation and simply enjoying the Bible, find fresh ideas for Bible study in this episode. DOWNLOAD A FREE INDUCTIVE BIBLE STUDY BOOKMARK This episode is part of our Bible Reading and Study series: A Lamp Unto my Feet | Abiding in the Light of God's Word to Illuminate our Lives You may enjoy these Momma Theologians episodes on Bible Reading and Study: 3 Tips For Studying the Bible in 15 Minutes a Day Inductive Bible Study Method So You Don't Want To Begin Reading or Studying the Bible... So You Do Want To Begin Reading and Studying the Bible... Pursue Biblical Literacy, Mommas ___________ Momma Theologians Contributors Amy Fischer Amy Fischer is a home educating mom of three rambunctious boys. Originally from Indiana, she now resides with her family in northwest England. Amy writes about home education and parenting on her blog, Around the Thicket. She is also the co-host of the Thinking Love podcast, a show about the Charlotte Mason approach to education. When she isn't chasing after her boys, you will find her reading, writing, or planning her next hike. Kelsi Folsom Kelsi Folsom is a poet and singer making her home in beautiful Kansas City with her husband and four young children. She navigates the ups and downs of marriage and motherhood with black coffee, her library card, and a no. 2 pencil. Her essays and poems are published in Motherly, Coffee and Crumbs, Grit and Virtue, Verily Magazine, Mothers Always Write, and elsewhere. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Breaking the Jar (Finishing Line Press, 2022), Buried in the Margins (Finishing Line Press, 2020), and Words the Dirt Meant to Share (Desert Willow Press, 2018). Having lived in multiple countries and moved fourteen times since getting married, Kelsi loves encouraging women to find refreshment and comfort in the moment-by-moment friendship of Jesus Christ. She firmly believes in the power of true worship to foster healing through the embodiment of God's unconditional love. When she isn't cooking for family and friends, she enjoys thrifting, reading Bible Commentaries, and occasionally putting her B.M. in Voice Performance to good use. Connect with her on IG @kelsifolosom and sign up for her quarterly newsletter The Shameless Beauty Digest

Ms. Williams was a first-prize winner at the NATS-CNYFL(National Association of Teachers of Singing Central New York Finger Lakes Chapter) competition. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance from Westminster Choir College, a Master of Music from Ithaca College, and a Professional Studies Certificate in opera from The Manhattan School of Music. She is a volunteer artist for Sing for Hope and is one of the owners of the Sparkle Twins. In addition to singing, Ms. Williams teaches Pre-school and is also a professional commercial and print model. She most recently starred in the national Verizon Holiday commercial along with her identical twin sister. Which received over 2 million views worldwide. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/musicspeaks-podcast/support

“The Creator of all things, the Alpha and Omega, the Eternal One, putting on the garb of infancy to enter the world, just like every other human, is a level of vulnerability that astonishes me. His entrance, unlike what we would expect of a King, is not dramatic, but rather common—“Heaven's King” is “Infant Jesus” given comfort and life at Mary's bosom, night after night.” Listen to the rest of Kelsi Folsom's Essay today as she reflects upon Jesus as a baby this Christmas Eve 2021. Head to our website to read Kelsi's entire Essay Find more articles and essays written by mothers just like you as they share stories and reflections about how they grow spiritually in Christ in the midst of motherhood. www.mommatheologians.com Join our community on Instagram @mommatheologians Follow our page on Facebook @mommatheologians ___________ Momma Theologians Contributor Kelsi Folsom Kelsi Folsom is a poet and singer making her home in beautiful Kansas City with her husband and four young children. She navigates the ups and downs of marriage and motherhood with black coffee, her library card, and a no.2 pencil. Her essays and poems are published in Motherly, Coffee and Crumbs, Grit and Virtue, Verily Magazine, Mothers Always Write, Kindred Mom, and elsewhere. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Breaking the Jar (Finishing Line Press, 2022), Buried in the Margins (Finishing Line Press, 2020), and Words the Dirt Meant to Share (Desert Willow Press, 2018). Having lived in multiple countries and moved fourteen times since getting married, Kelsi loves encouraging women to find refreshment and comfort in the moment-by-moment friendship of Jesus Christ. She firmly believes in the power of true worship to foster healing through the embodiment of God's unconditional love. When she isn't cooking for family and friends, she enjoys thrifting, reading Bible commentaries, and occasionally putting her B.M. in Voice Performance to good use. Connect with her on IG @kelsifolsom and sign up for her quarterly newsletter The Shameless Beauty Digest. ___________ Subscribe to our Podcast today to automatically download our Christian Christmas Podcast Series! This Christmas, we will still be releasing: Christmas Day- Elizabeth Berget's “Deliverance” December 26th- Our last Advent Study episode “O Come O Come Emmanuel- Marvel at the Magnitude of the Incarnation” _____________ Our instrumental music in the background of our Advent and Christmas Podcast episodes has been composed and played by our talented Momma Theologian, Kyleigh Dunn @kyleighrdunn If this episode resonated with you in any way, would you share it with a friend? We would be delighted if you took a few minutes to leave a rating and review. These truly help to make the podcast more searchable and accessible so that other mothers like you can be encouraged to deepen their relationship with Christ in the midst of motherhood. We cherish and appreciate every single one.

Jihye Lee is a jazz composer and bandleader based in New York, highly regarded for her personal and adventurous storytelling approach to large-ensemble jazz. A native of South Korea, Lee had no jazz or classical training growing up, though she found success in Korea performing as an indie-pop singer-songwriter. She graduated from Dongduk Women's University with a degree in Voice Performance, discovering her love of large-ensemble jazz only after beginning her studies at Boston's Berklee College of Music in 2011. Confidently she began to explore her own identity and voice within this exciting, historically rich medium, winning Berklee's Duke Ellington Prize just months after declaring her Jazz Composition major (and again the following year). Though she could never have anticipated this new path, she has followed it to greater heights, moving to New York in 2015 and earning a master's degree at Manhattan School of Music under the guidance of the great Jim McNeely, with generous funding from school scholarships and the CJ Cultural Foundation. In this episode, Jihye shares her background, education, and musical journey. If you enjoyed this episode please make sure to subscribe, follow, rate, and/or review this podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, ect. Connect with us on all social media platforms and at www.improvexchange.com

As a mom of littles, it's easy to drift away into function, putting aside the things we once liked to do just for the fun of it, only completing the necessary tasks for getting through the day. It's easy to lose our sense of playfulness. I wonder, though, how we can serve our children well if we forget who we are? If we want to cultivate wholeness in them, we need to cultivate wholeness in ourselves. Prioritizing what brings us delight is a key to making this happen. Listen to the rest of Kelsi Folsom's essay as she encourages us to prioritize delight in the midst of motherhood. DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE WORKSHEET TO GO ALONG WITH THIS EPISODE Go to our website to read Kelsi's entire Essay Find more articles and essays written by mothers just like you as they share stories and reflections about how they grow spiritually in Christ in the midst of motherhood. www.mommatheologians.com Join our community on Instagram @mommatheologians Follow our page on Facebook @mommatheologians ___________ Kelsi Folsom Kelsi Folsom is a poet and singer making her home in beautiful Kansas City with her husband and four young children. She navigates the ups and downs of marriage and motherhood with black coffee, her library card, and a no.2 pencil. Her essays and poems are published in Motherly, Coffee and Crumbs, Grit and Virtue, Verily Magazine, Mothers Always Write, Kindred Mom, and elsewhere. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Breaking the Jar (Finishing Line Press, 2022), Buried in the Margins (Finishing Line Press, 2020), and Words the Dirt Meant to Share (Desert Willow Press, 2018). Having lived in multiple countries and moved fourteen times since getting married, Kelsi loves encouraging women to find refreshment and comfort in the moment-by-moment friendship of Jesus Christ. She firmly believes in the power of true worship to foster healing through the embodiment of God's unconditional love. When she isn't cooking for family and friends, she enjoys thrifting, reading Bible commentaries, and occasionally putting her B.M. in Voice Performance to good use. Connect with her on IG @kelsifolsom and sign up for her quarterly newsletter The Shameless Beauty Digest. ___________ If this episode resonated with you in any way, would you share it with a friend? We would be delighted if you took a few minutes to leave a rating and review. These truly help to make the podcast more searchable and accessible so that other mothers like you can be encouraged to deepen their relationship with Christ in the midst of motherhood. We cherish and appreciate every single one.

Elissa interviews Sue Holland, the talented head chanter at Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church in Austin, Texas. Sue has a Masters Degree in Voice Performance, with a focus on opera, and a beautiful voice. She and her husband, Brian, have been developing a ministry called “Bringing Your Brokenness," which welcomes people with issues from depression and anxiety to addiction to bring their brokenness to God and to His Body, the Church.

Elissa interviews Sue Holland, the talented head chanter at Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church in Austin, Texas. Sue has a Masters Degree in Voice Performance, with a focus on opera, and a beautiful voice. She and her husband, Brian, have been developing a ministry called “Bringing Your Brokenness," which welcomes people with issues from depression and anxiety to addiction to bring their brokenness to God and to His Body, the Church.

In this episode, Bri & guest Kate Rosen discuss the nuances of being a fat performer and hurdles they have faced in the industry. They also discuss the parallels to vocal work and body image work as the importance of fat-positive representation in the media. Kate Rosen is passionate about helping others discover greater joy in singing. She has taught hundreds of students with all sorts of different goals and dreams. Some have gone on to musical theatre programs at schools including the University of Michigan, or have been selected as a classical soloist for the Michigan Youth Arts Festival. Others have found their voices so they can enjoy karaoke with friends, finally get into the top choir at school, or just feel more like themselves. A lifelong learner, Kate is level 2 certified in Somatic Voicework™ with Jeanie LoVetri, has studied Musical Theatre Coaching with Nate Plummer of Stagedoor Unlocked, and has studied vocal anatomy and science with The Vocal Instrument 101. She has also studied Transgender Voice and Speech Training for Teachers with Liz Jackson Hearns, a pioneer in the area of trans voice work. Kate earned her Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and her Master of Music in Voice Performance from the University of Michigan. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Detroit Children's Choir, and is a proud member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS). She's also a member of the raddest group of voice teachers on the planet, the Speakeasy Cooperative. Kate is an adjudicator for the Sutton Foster Ovation Awards, the Michigan branch of the Jimmy Awards. To find out out more about Kate find her https://www.katerosenstudio.com/ or on her instagram at @fatjoyvoice

Licensed professional counselors Johanna Dwinells and Sarah Bryski-Hamrick are slowly demystifying and destigmatizing therapy, one episode at a time. Recording and living in the Philadelphia area, Johanna and Sarah work to make therapy feel more accessible, with quirky, sometimes intrusive questions that reveal the human side of healthcare professionals, all while they overcome their own anxieties and internalized stigmas. TW: None.Note - There is a buzz in the audio during the interview portion of the show. We apologize that we could not remove it but hope that you listen because we think that the interview is interesting and important. Episode summary: Johanna and Sarah discuss their investment in TV shows, touching briefly on the challenges of discussing race and politics with their white parents. They read about the important figures in the development of early childhood education as we now see it, as well as modern music therapy. Music therapist, professional vocalist, and their former classmate, Katy Hutchings discusses the benefits of music therapy in child development, live music with kiddos during COVID-19, what self-care looks like while raising two children under 5, and how her performance background steered her towards becoming a board certified music therapist. Guest Bio: Katy Hutchings is a board certified music therapist, working primarily with early childhood populations. Having received her Masters in Music Therapy and Counseling from Drexel University, she works full time at Young Children's Center for the Arts in South Philadelphia as one of the staff music therapists and as the director of Kreative Kids which offers music classes for families with young children in the area. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Katy came to the East Coast to attend Haverford College and then received her first Masters in Voice Performance at Temple University. After attempting to make it in the opera world for several years, Katy decided music therapy was a better career path. She still sings professionally, mostly as the soprano section leader at a church, a professional caroler during the holidays, and an actress in local musical theater productions. Katy is also a mom of two kids, a four year old and a nine month old, and is passionate about maternal and family mental health.Sources for today's History Lesson: Blog post “History of Early Childhood Education: Then and Now” by Steven Bonnay; www.k12academics.com; www.musictherapy.org; www.uphs.upenn.edu; wikipedia.org; kids.kiddle.co;Resources: Laurie Berkner - laurieberkner.com, music for children and their familiesKreative Kids Music - www.kreativekidsmusic.orgsummer programs, classes, ideasweekly support group for parents of young children, onlineMeets on Tuesdays @12:30pmQuestions/comments/concerns? Want to share your thera-story? Email us at therapistsnextdoor@gmail.com.Follow us: IG: @therapistsnextdoorTwitter: @therapistsndpodDo you want bonus features, including episodes, the ability to vote on what questions we ask our guests and ad-free episodes (fingers crossed)? Do you want to help support us as we demystify and destigmatize mental health? Visit our Patreon: patreon.com/tndpodcastOr visit our website: tndpodcast.com

French Line #56, Originally published 1969. About the host: A native of Ponca City, Oklahoma, Robert Maril moved to New York in 2006 after earning degrees in Voice Performance from Peabody Conservatory and DePauw University. With composers George Lam and Ruby Fulton and singers Elisabeth Halliday and Bonnie Lander, Robert is a founding member of Rhymes With Opera (http://www.rhymeswithopera.org), an ensemble that commissions new dramatic vocal works, now in its twelfth season. Robert is a member of the band Tender Creature (https://www.tendercreature.com), and since 2008 has worked as a DJ (http://www.mixcloud.com/robertmaril), with a current residency in Fire Island Pines. As a writer and columnist, he's contributed to Rolling Stone, Next Magazine, Queerty, and Baltimore Gay Life, among others.

French Line #56, Originally published 1969. About the host: A native of Ponca City, Oklahoma, Robert Maril moved to New York in 2006 after earning degrees in Voice Performance from Peabody Conservatory and DePauw University. With composers George Lam and Ruby Fulton and singers Elisabeth Halliday and Bonnie Lander, Robert is a founding member of Rhymes With Opera (http://www.rhymeswithopera.org), an ensemble that commissions new dramatic vocal works, now in its twelfth season. Robert is a member of the band Tender Creature (https://www.tendercreature.com), and since 2008 has worked as a DJ (http://www.mixcloud.com/robertmaril), with a current residency in Fire Island Pines. As a writer and columnist, he's contributed to Rolling Stone, Next Magazine, Queerty, and Baltimore Gay Life, among others.

French Line #56, Originally published 1969. About the host: A native of Ponca City, Oklahoma, Robert Maril moved to New York in 2006 after earning degrees in Voice Performance from Peabody Conservatory and DePauw University. With composers George Lam and Ruby Fulton and singers Elisabeth Halliday and Bonnie Lander, Robert is a founding member of Rhymes With Opera (http://www.rhymeswithopera.org), an ensemble that commissions new dramatic vocal works, now in its twelfth season. Robert is a member of the band Tender Creature (https://www.tendercreature.com), and since 2008 has worked as a DJ (http://www.mixcloud.com/robertmaril), with a current residency in Fire Island Pines. As a writer and columnist, he's contributed to Rolling Stone, Next Magazine, Queerty, and Baltimore Gay Life, among others.

French Line #56, Originally published 1969. About the host: A native of Ponca City, Oklahoma, Robert Maril moved to New York in 2006 after earning degrees in Voice Performance from Peabody Conservatory and DePauw University. With composers George Lam and Ruby Fulton and singers Elisabeth Halliday and Bonnie Lander, Robert is a founding member of Rhymes With Opera (http://www.rhymeswithopera.org), an ensemble that commissions new dramatic vocal works, now in its twelfth season. Robert is a member of the band Tender Creature (https://www.tendercreature.com), and since 2008 has worked as a DJ (http://www.mixcloud.com/robertmaril), with a current residency in Fire Island Pines. As a writer and columnist, he's contributed to Rolling Stone, Next Magazine, Queerty, and Baltimore Gay Life, among others.

Will the non-profit and social impact sectors ever be diverse? How do you recruit diverse volunteers? How do you retain diverse staff? In this episode of Movement Maker: The Podcast, Terri Broussard Williams sits down with thought leaders from the social impact sector to dig into diversity, equity, and inclusive trends. They break down why you should do this work and how you can make it happen to better your community. About The Host: Terri Broussard Williams believes that leaders turn moments into movements. She also believes that anyone can be a great leader. Terri explains that movements can be as big as passing a law, building a church, or starting a nonprofit. They can also be as small as giving to someone in need, showing kindness, or helping students at a school get gym equipment. This podcast is here to help you with the HOW and WHY people build movements. Terri breaks it down each time using the #FirestarterFormula which is: find your cause, build a community to help, communicate your vision, and work to see change. In each episode of this podcast, we’ll take a look at one of the four pillars of the #MovementMakerTribe including philanthropy, policy change, movement-building, and the movement from within. This edition of Movement Maker: The Podcast is a special fireside chat with firestarters, where Terri introduces you to the changemakers in “Find Your Fire.”  “Find Your Fire,” is Terri’s first book. It is a #1 Amazon New Release and Best Seller. Cosmopolitan Magazine list it as the #6 non-fiction book of 2020. Get your own copy of “Find Your Fire” here! Episode Notes: Moderator/Host: Terri Broussard Williams, Founder, Movement Maker Tribe + Social Impact Strategist, Lobbyist Very important guests: Annie Burridge was named General Director & CEO of Austin Opera in October 2016 following a nine-year tenure at Opera Philadelphia, where she most recently served as Managing Director. Since joining Austin Opera she led the development of a new strategic plan; launched a new artistic initiative – Opera ATX – bringing groundbreaking artists to unexpected and unique venues throughout Austin; secured three national innovation grants totaling $600,000; established numerous community partnerships including the first formalized partnership with the Butler School of Music; and increased the company’s endowment funds by 100%. At Opera Philadelphia Annie was responsible for the implementation of the company’s business plan and leadership of the development, marketing, and communications departments. She led the company’s rebranding campaign and the most comprehensive consumer study ever conducted in the opera field, resulting in the company’s new programming model and the creation of the O17 festival. During her tenure as Opera Philadelphia’s chief development officer, contributed income increased 183%.  Annie holds a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Administration from the University of Pennsylvania; a M.M. in Voice Performance and a M.M. in Opera Studies from the New England Conservatory; and graduated the valedictorian of the College of Arts and Architecture at Penn State University, where she earned a B.M. in Voice Performance with a Minor in Business Administration. Annie is Vice-Chair of the OPERA America Board of Trustees and an alumnus of Wharton’s Women’s Executive Leadership program and OPERA America’s Leadership Intensive program. In 2017 she was selected as an Emerging Nonprofit Leadership Fellow at the Aspen Institute and was named a “2017 Mover and Shaper” by Musical America. In 2018 she won the Penn State University College of Arts and Architecture Alumni Award. Kendall Joyner is the Vice President of Professional Development at the Association of Fundraising Professionals, the professional association of more than 30,000 individuals and organizations that generate philanthropic support for a wide variety of charitable institutions.  As Vice President, Kendall oversees the education offerings including webinars, courses, e-courses and conferences and is responsible for crafting the organization’s education strategy. Kendall has more than 20 years of experience working in charitable sector organizations on a local and national level in the areas of grantmaking, youth development, systems building, ethics and accountability, governance, capacity building and leadership development.  Prior to joining the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Kendall served in senior positions at Independent Sector, HandsOn Greater DC Cares, Great Start DC and the DC Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation.  He has also served on the Boards of Directors of several nonprofit organizations including the Black Philanthropic Alliance, the Columbia Heights Youth Club, the Arts and Technology Academy Public Charter School, Damien Ministries, Inc. and the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network National.  Kendall has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from Harvard University and a Graduate Certificate in Leadership Development from Johns Hopkins University.  Kendall resides in Washington, DC. Cherian Koshy, Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) & AFP Master Trainer is an internationally recognized expert in philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. He works with hundreds of nonprofits each year to help them solve their most intractable problems. His industry-leading thought leadership has been featured in Advancing Philanthropy, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, the Institute of Fundraising (UK), and dozens of blogs, webinars, and podcasts. With 20+ years of experience, he is one of the most sought-after trainers and speakers in the nonprofit sector. As a coach and consultant, he helps struggling nonprofit leaders find strategies that give them back time and develop sustainable revenue. Shelley Danner is a senior leader with business and consulting experience infused with a passion for impact. In 2012, she pivoted her career into the social sector with a focus on talent and leadership. Shelley is co-founder and Program Director of nonprofit Challenge Detroit and on faculty as an adjunct professor in the Integrated Design MFA at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. She also sits on the advisory board for the University of Detroit Mercy Masters of Community Development Program and the founding advisory committee of the Detroit Women's Leadership Network. Shelley is a 2019 DYP Vanguard Awardee and was recognized by Crain's Detroit Business as one of the 2018 Notable Women in Nonprofits. Shelley holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business from Miami University in Ohio and a graduate certificate in leadership coaching from Georgetown University. Shelley also has expertise in design thinking and strategic planning and has co-created and led over 150 community project collaborations in partnership with nonprofits across Detroit's neighborhoods. Born and raised in Michigan, she loves the arts, outdoor adventures, cities, traveling, and asking questions. Get your own copy of “Find Your Fire” here! After you listen, be sure to check out: Want your copy of “Find Your Fire” signed by the author? Click Here. The #MovementMakerTribe Facebook insider group, join us for all things #MovementMaker inspired. Follow the #MovementMakerTribe on Instagram. Get your #MovementMaker swag here! Sign up for some “Friday Fuel” - a newsletter providing weekly love letters meant to inspire the change-maker in all of us. Book Terri to speak. Shoot an email to Annie, Cherian, Kendall, or Shelley Subscribe to Movement Maker: The Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. If you enjoyed the show, please leave us a rating or review!

French Line #56, Originally published 1969. About the host: A native of Ponca City, Oklahoma, Robert Maril moved to New York in 2006 after earning degrees in Voice Performance from Peabody Conservatory and DePauw University. With composers George Lam and Ruby Fulton and singers Elisabeth Halliday and Bonnie Lander, Robert is a founding member of Rhymes With Opera (http://www.rhymeswithopera.org), an ensemble that commissions new dramatic vocal works, now in its twelfth season. Robert is a member of the band Tender Creature (https://www.tendercreature.com), and since 2008 has worked as a DJ (http://www.mixcloud.com/robertmaril), with a current residency in Fire Island Pines. As a writer and columnist, he's contributed to Rolling Stone, Next Magazine, Queerty, and Baltimore Gay Life, among others.

Bio: Divine Mirror Author Debra Lynn is a professional singer with her B.A. in Voice Performance and is a Direct-Line Scholar of Bel Canto (Beautiful singing!) and Author of Divine Mirror Author Debra Lynn is a professional singer with her B.A. in Voice Performance and is a Direct-Line Scholar of Bel Canto (Beautiful singing!) and Author of The Bel Canto Buzz: Beautiful singing made simple! As someone who has professionally helped others release their voices over the past twenty-five years, Debra's inner healing has been facilitated by accessing her own authentic voice through her writing. A spiritual awakening that began on the shores of Honolulu in 1985, has taken her across the planet searching for answers that were ultimately found much closer to home, as she finally faced into the shadow of family trauma and discovered the power of unconditional love. In Divine Mirror she shares this poignant transformational journey through a small, mysterious 400-year-old painting gifted to her by her alcoholic father in a moment of profound healing. Social Media Links: Website - www.debralynn.org FaceBook - @sixthwayconsciousness & @debralynnbelcanto Instagram - debralynn.author & debralynn.belcanto YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/debralynnbe... Amazon.com for Divine Mirror: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Debra-Lyn... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/24k-healing/message

French Line #56, Originally published 1969. About the host: A native of Ponca City, Oklahoma, Robert Maril moved to New York in 2006 after earning degrees in Voice Performance from Peabody Conservatory and DePauw University. With composers George Lam and Ruby Fulton and singers Elisabeth Halliday and Bonnie Lander, Robert is a founding member of Rhymes With Opera (http://www.rhymeswithopera.org), an ensemble that commissions new dramatic vocal works, now in its twelfth season. Robert is a member of the band Tender Creature (https://www.tendercreature.com), and since 2008 has worked as a DJ (http://www.mixcloud.com/robertmaril), with a current residency in Fire Island Pines. As a writer and columnist, he's contributed to Rolling Stone, Next Magazine, Queerty, and Baltimore Gay Life, among others.

French Line #56, Originally published 1969. About the host: A native of Ponca City, Oklahoma, Robert Maril moved to New York in 2006 after earning degrees in Voice Performance from Peabody Conservatory and DePauw University. With composers George Lam and Ruby Fulton and singers Elisabeth Halliday and Bonnie Lander, Robert is a founding member of Rhymes With Opera (http://www.rhymeswithopera.org), an ensemble that commissions new dramatic vocal works, now in its twelfth season. Robert is a member of the band Tender Creature (https://www.tendercreature.com), and since 2008 has worked as a DJ (http://www.mixcloud.com/robertmaril), with a current residency in Fire Island Pines. As a writer and columnist, he's contributed to Rolling Stone, Next Magazine, Queerty, and Baltimore Gay Life, among others.

Heather Mansell appears for the first time, while Dave Gerhart and Alice Pan make return appearances to the podcast! Heather and Dave from Yamaha Corporation talk about their PASIC 2020 Presentation on Funding (04:00) and the 2020 year for Yamaha and both of them personally (21:00). Percussionist and Professor Alice Pan talks about her PASIC 2020 Marimba and Voice Performance (45:00) and her teaching at the University of North Alabama, living in the deep south, and moving back to Taiwan (58:30). Finishing with a Rave on the classic comedy The Naked Gun (01:21:45).Links:Dave Gerhart’s previous podcast appearanceDave Gerhart’s Yamaha pageHeather Mansell’s Yamaha pageMarcia NeelCARES Act FundingYamaha’s funding resourcesNo Child Left BehindNAMM FoundationNAMM Fly-InsMark FordGary BurtonSteve Gadd“Limelight” - Rush2020 LA DodgersAlice Pan’s previous podcast appearanceAlice Pan’s homepageJosh OxfordPASIC 2020 presentationUniversity of North Alabama percussionMatthew Lau“Zombie” - The CranberriesRaves:The Naked Gun trailer

https://youtu.be/pptWrSayP3I Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Trouble (The Voice Performance) · Britton Buchanan The Complete Season 14 Collection ℗ 2018 Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. Released on: 2018-05-23 Producer, Studio Personnel, Engineer, Mixer: Bill Appleberry Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer: Tim Harkins Studio Personnel, Engineer: Brian Dong Associated Performer, Recording Arranger, Keyboards: Paul Mirkovich Associated Performer, Guitar: Dave Barry Associated Performer, Bass (vocal): Sasha Krivtsov Associated Performer, Drums: Nate Morton Associated Performer, Keyboards: Eric Daniels Contracting With: Shari Sutcliffe Composer Lyricist: Ray Lamontagne https://thelearningcode.school.blog/2020/09/17/we-believe-in-you/

This week's episode features Juliet Rafanelli. Juliet is a recent graduate of Westminster Choir College where she received her Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance. She has aspirations to attend graduate school to continue training as an operatic soprano, in hopes of traveling the world to perform as a professional opera singer. Juliet is also invested in mental health advocacy and feels passionately that all bodies are equally stage-worthy. Juliet can be found on social media @JulietRafanelli.

David L'Hommedieu was trained as an opera singer, attending The American Boychoir School in Princeton, NJ, which many consider the pre-eminent professional boychoir school in the United States. As a member of the choir, David regularly performed at the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. As an adult, David continued performing with Opera Companies in major venues in the United States and Europe. But after receiving a Masters in Music and Voice Performance, David left the touring life of Professional Opera in order to become the Director of Worship and the Arts at Pine Street Church in historic downtown Boulder, CO. I wanted to explore the "Why" of such a decision, as well as his strong belief that the arts, and in particular music, is essential to a vital spiritual life. I also explore David's most recent project as the co-creator, along with the Pastor of Pine Street Church, Andrew Dougherty, of the Hyphenated Life Podcast, which will officially launch in October of this year.

Buffy's quest was for the perfect lover. He had to be built like wow...yet tender when it mattered...and have an insatiable lust for the gay antics Buffy quickly learned to love...as he went about seducing every lovable stud in sight. Adult Books #433, published 1968About the host: A native of Ponca City, Oklahoma, Robert Maril moved to New York in 2006 after earning degrees in Voice Performance from Peabody Conservatory and DePauw University. With composers George Lam and Ruby Fulton and singers Elisabeth Halliday and Bonnie Lander, Robert is a founding member of Rhymes With Opera (http://www.rhymeswithopera.org), an ensemble that commissions new dramatic vocal works, now in its twelfth season. Robert is a member of the band Tender Creature (https://www.tendercreature.com), and since 2008 has worked as a DJ (http://www.mixcloud.com/robertmaril), with a current residency in Fire Island Pines. As a writer and columnist, he's contributed to Rolling Stone, Next Magazine, Queerty, and Baltimore Gay Life, among others.

Buffy's quest was for the perfect lover. He had to be built like wow...yet tender when it mattered...and have an insatiable lust for the gay antics Buffy quickly learned to love...as he went about seducing every lovable stud in sight. Adult Books #433, published 1968About the host: A native of Ponca City, Oklahoma, Robert Maril moved to New York in 2006 after earning degrees in Voice Performance from Peabody Conservatory and DePauw University. With composers George Lam and Ruby Fulton and singers Elisabeth Halliday and Bonnie Lander, Robert is a founding member of Rhymes With Opera (http://www.rhymeswithopera.org), an ensemble that commissions new dramatic vocal works, now in its twelfth season. Robert is a member of the band Tender Creature (https://www.tendercreature.com), and since 2008 has worked as a DJ (http://www.mixcloud.com/robertmaril), with a current residency in Fire Island Pines. As a writer and columnist, he's contributed to Rolling Stone, Next Magazine, Queerty, and Baltimore Gay Life, among others.

Buffy's quest was for the perfect lover. He had to be built like wow...yet tender when it mattered...and have an insatiable lust for the gay antics Buffy quickly learned to love...as he went about seducing every lovable stud in sight. Adult Books #433, published 1968About the host: A native of Ponca City, Oklahoma, Robert Maril moved to New York in 2006 after earning degrees in Voice Performance from Peabody Conservatory and DePauw University. With composers George Lam and Ruby Fulton and singers Elisabeth Halliday and Bonnie Lander, Robert is a founding member of Rhymes With Opera (http://www.rhymeswithopera.org), an ensemble that commissions new dramatic vocal works, now in its twelfth season. Robert is a member of the band Tender Creature (https://www.tendercreature.com), and since 2008 has worked as a DJ (http://www.mixcloud.com/robertmaril), with a current residency in Fire Island Pines. As a writer and columnist, he's contributed to Rolling Stone, Next Magazine, Queerty, and Baltimore Gay Life, among others.

Buffy's quest was for the perfect lover. He had to be built like wow...yet tender when it mattered...and have an insatiable lust for the gay antics Buffy quickly learned to love...as he went about seducing every lovable stud in sight. Adult Books #433, published 1968About the host: A native of Ponca City, Oklahoma, Robert Maril moved to New York in 2006 after earning degrees in Voice Performance from Peabody Conservatory and DePauw University. With composers George Lam and Ruby Fulton and singers Elisabeth Halliday and Bonnie Lander, Robert is a founding member of Rhymes With Opera (http://www.rhymeswithopera.org), an ensemble that commissions new dramatic vocal works, now in its twelfth season. Robert is a member of the band Tender Creature (https://www.tendercreature.com), and since 2008 has worked as a DJ (http://www.mixcloud.com/robertmaril), with a current residency in Fire Island Pines. As a writer and columnist, he's contributed to Rolling Stone, Next Magazine, Queerty, and Baltimore Gay Life, among others.

Leah Stewart-Hill, soprano, is a performer and vocal educator based in Louisiana. She has more than nine years of experience teaching voice on the collegiate level. She is founder and director of Studio 2219, a music school she operates with her husband, Dr. David Hill, a pianist and vocal coach.Since 2018, Leah has been a cast member in Stephen Burke’s original musical, The Hiding Place, singing the role of Betsie ten Boom in the show’s national tours. Her other roles include Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte, Angelica in Suor Angelica, Mimì in La bohème, Adina in L’elisir d’amore, Micaela in Carmen, The Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Young Psyche, a role written for her, in Larry Taylor’s Eros and Psyche.Leah was introduced to Young Living Essentials Oils in 2019 and quickly became fascinated by their impact on her health and vocal wellness. As a result, she is passionate about sharing essential oils and their many benefits for vocalists—on and off the stage.Leah received a B.A. and M.A. from Pensacola Christian College and an M.M. in Voice Performance from James Madison University. Connect with Leah!https://www.instagram.com/alifeofessentials/ Contact us here!https://linktr.ee/rachelsandlermusicFor podcast inquiries: aspiringartistpodcast@gmail.comFor music & lessons inquiries: rachelsandlermusic@gmail.com

In this installment of the Detroit Worldwide Podcast, Marquis connects with content and brand marketer, Brandon Littlejohn about life in New York City and the lessons he's learned since entering his profession.   Brandon also discusses the many companies he's worked with including YouTube, BET, and Atlantic Records and how each role supported his growth both personally and professionally.   About Brandon:   Brandon ‘Elon’ Littlejohn is a Detroit-raised brand marketer and producer currently based in Harlem, New York. Over the past 10 years, he’s executed countless content, experiential and influencer campaign for brands, including YSL, Diageo, Heineken, YouTube, BET, Highsnobiety and others.   In his free time, he moonlights as an independent film producer and serves as the Filmmaker Liaison for TIDE Film Festival, a Brooklyn-based festival that celebrates the power of storytelling by filmmakers of color.   Brandon holds a B.A. in Communication Studies and a Bachelor of Musical Arts in Voice Performance from the University of Michigan.   Connect with Brandon:   Twitter: @cozyE313 Instagram: @cozye313 LinkedIn: Brandon Littlejohn Website: https://elondoesthings.com/ Email: elon@elondoesthings.com

Amrit-Sadhana’s path to wellness started from a young age. She was raised in a yogic home where early mornings, meditation and cold showers were a part of her every day life. She went on to live her life, received her BA in Voice Performance from the University of Oregon and moved to Los Angeles. It was there that she worked for a holistic chiropractor and her passion for health and wellness was relit. She has found that no matter how much trauma you survive, how depressed or anxious you are, or how hopeless you feel, you can heal and live in joy in your body, mind and spirit. You can conquer all the fears and programming that is holding you back and follow your deepest dreams. It was her experience in changing her relationship with her own anxiety that she realized she could help others to do so. She uses her lifelong experience with yoga and meditation and her deep knowledge of food and nutrition to give you a grounded base in which to work from. She’s committed to a career in helping others heal, fall in love with themselves and live their absolute best lives. Amrit-Sadhana attended the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and here we are. She is a passionate, compassionate and supportive coach who is here to help you find peace and joy in your life. You can follow her @bodyblisslife

Kristen Seikaly is a blogger, content writer, and creative writer. She also happens to be an ex-opera singer. She’s got a MM from Westminster Choir College in Voice Performance and Pedagogy and has performed in venues such as the Kimmel Center and Academy of Music, and has participated in operatic productions with companies such as...

Josephine Suwanpoh adalah seorang penyanyi musik klasik. Semula Josephine berfokus pada Piano Performance in Classical Music dan menyelesaikan studi sarjana strata satu di UCSI University Kuala Lumpur. Pada saat yang bersamaan, dia sangat tertarik untuk menekuni juga bidang vokal musik klasik. Kemudian Josephine memperoleh gelar Master of Voice Performance and Collaborative Piano dari The University of Akron. Selain itu, dia memperoleh Licentiate Performer’s Diplomas (LTCL) with Distinction pada bidang Piano and Voice from the Trinity Guildhall College London.

Sara Guttenberg, soprano, is highly sought after as a soloist and chamber artist, charming critics and audiences with her “vocal finesse” (South Florida Sun-Sentinel) and “soaring tones” (Miami Herald). Guttenberg is a member of Seraphic Fire and the Berwick Chorus of the Oregon Bach Festival. Known for her vocal versatility, she has performed and recorded music of multiple vocal genres. She is also a featured soloist on Naxos recordings of William Bolcom’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience, which earned four GRAMMY® awards. Guttenberg has sung under the batons of Nicholas McGegan, Michael Tilson Thomas, John Nelson, Leonard Slatkin, and Helmuth Rilling. Currently, she is pursuing a doctoral degree in Choral Conducting at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previously, she spent seven years teaching at Southern Utah University, where she conducted multiple ensembles in addition to teaching choral music education classes and applied voice. Guttenberg holds Master’s degrees in Voice Performance and Choral Conducting from University of Michigan, and a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

For most people, your voice is simply the tool you use to communicate. But for Gina Razón, this week’s guest on the Confident Communications podcast, the voice is much more than that. And when you don’t use your breath properly, your voice (and your credibility) can suffer. A former opera singer and current public speaker and voice coach, Gina shares with us why the voice is a tattletale for your confidence and exactly what speakers do when they’re not as confident or as prepared as they’d like to be. And she passes along tips that any speaker, no matter what kind of room they’re in, can use to be more confident. Even if the ex-boyfriend who broke your heart 10 years ago walks into the room. Probably most fascinating is the connection that the body--even the big toe--has with your voice and how dynamic your speech is. Gina also explores how generational inflection is a part of life today and the superpower that each gender has in their voice. Gina firmly believes that there is one special “birthright to everyone who breathes air.” And the answer comes out loud and clear in this episode. Mentioned in This Episode Gina Razon’s TEDx Cambridge talk Tamsen Webster’s Find Your Red Thread Episode 5: Just Listen Episode 3: How to Ace an Interview and Communicate Your Brand The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music The neural integration of speaker and message   About Gina Gina Razón has taught voice and speech for over 16 years to individuals, organizations and in academic settings. She is sought after as a teacher of voice and speech, singing, and public presentation. Gina also performs as a classical mezzo-soprano in concert and opera. Gina has a BM and MM in Voice Performance, is a practitioner of Fitzmaurice Voicework and a certified teacher of Somatic Voicework. She has served as voice coach for TEDxCambridge, and speaks at National and local events on all things voice and speech. Gina is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, The Voice Foundation, the Voice and Speech Trainers Association and the National Speakers Association. Visit her website or read more about the topics of voice and speech on her blog. Do you struggle with feeling like your own communication is seen and heard? Feel more relevant online with my Power Speak download. Learn what to say (and what not to say) if you want to feel seen, heard and relevant online. © Molly McPherson 2019

Elissa interviews Sue Holland, the talented head chanter at Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church in Austin, Texas. Sue has a Masters Degree in Voice Performance, with a focus on opera, and a beautiful voice. She and her husband, Brian, have been developing a ministry called “Bringing Your Brokenness," which welcomes people with issues from depression and anxiety to addiction to bring their brokenness to God and to His Body, the Church.

Some of our episodes talk about a conductor’s journey as a musician, or their philosophical understanding of the nature of choral music. Some episodes are pure toolkits: here’s what you need to solve your problems. This episode has the rare distinction of being both. Dr. Kronauer and Ryan cover the “hows” of directing teenage male voices, as well as the “whys” behind them. You’re going to want to listen to this one twice. Listen: Highlight to Tweet: “Living rigidly is not the game. The game is finding elasticity.” - Steven Kronauer Show Notes: Try thinking less in terms of “blend,” and more in terms of “agreement.” For the teenage male singer, it’s important to reassure them that change is a part of life. Whatever they are working with (or through) will be fine. When dealing with limited range, you need to offer patience and guidance. Provide a model. Avoiding “compensation,” or reaching for a pitch. (“that giraffe thing” - Ryan Guth) Posture and alignment are always important, but especially so for teenage boys. Accept and love this period of life where you’re going through change! Falsetto is huge. HUGE. Sing into a straw in a cup of water, so that the sound is focused at the front of the bubbles. It helps practice constant airflow. Hum with the tongue between the lips, concentrating on the vibration of the vocal folds while letting go of tensions. “You learn to sing by singing.” Place your singers according to what will be healthy for them. Bio: DR. STEVEN KRONAUER, a highly experienced voice teacher, tenor, and conductor, is the conductor of Los Angeles Children’s Chorus’ Young Men’s Ensemble, comprised of young men with changing voices. After completing two Master’s degrees at the University of Michigan, one in Voice Performance and the other in Choral Conducting, Dr. Kronauer began his professional career in the chorus of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Germany, as its youngest member ever.  During his ten-year engagement, he had the privilege of meeting and studying with many noted singers of the highest echelon, including world famous Verdi tenor Dennis O’Neill and Wagnerian baritone Donald MacIntyre.  Dr. Kronauer was employed as a soloist with the Bavarian State Opera for television broadcasts, CD recordings, and live radio performances, appearing with Renee Fleming, Kurt Moll, and many others, in secondary tenor roles.  Dr. Kronauer performed the role of Smy in a world premiere of the German opera Peter Pan, by Willfried Hiller, directed by the world famous stage director August Everding.  This performance was recorded at the Prinz-Regenten Theatre in Munich, Germany, and distributed by Deutche Gramaphone. Dr. Kronauer has studied oratorio with the finest of the field, including Ernst Haefliger and Peter Schreier, in Germany (while being a guest observer as a conductor at the Deutche Stats Oper in Berlin, Germany). He also studied with tenor John McCollum in the United States. Since then, he established a career in Europe singing oratorio under such noted conductors as Karl Anton Richenbacher and Peter Schneider.  Additionally, Dr. Kronauer has sung as a soloist at the Cologne Philharmonic, and with the Munich Philharmonic in Germany. He has sung more than 100 performances of Carmina Burana, internationally.  Dr. Kronauer’s interest in opera conducting was enhanced upon becoming acquainted with Zubin Mehta and Wolfgang Sawalisch at the Munich Opera.  Dr. Kronauer is a soloist with many organizations since his return from Europe, including a frequent guest with the Angeles Chorale and the National Children’s Chorus, here in Los Angeles. Dr. Kronauer completed his doctorate degree at the University of California, Los Angeles in choral conducting and operatic conducting under the direction of Donald Neuen and William Vendice, respectively.  He has worked with Donald Neuen as an assistant conductor with the UCLA Chorale and with Maestro Vendice as the assistant conductor of the UCLA Opera. Previously, The University of Michigan offered Dr. Kronauer the opportunity of completing two Masters Degrees in Vocal Performance (under Lorna Haywood and John McCollum) and Choral Conducting (under Theodore Morrison).  There, he was the Assistant Conductor for Jerry Blackstone and the University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club.   He has also led a choral workshop at the University of Munich.  Dr. Kronauer’s expertise focused on performance practice of American and British chorale music.  While in Munich he formed The Munich Opera Chamber Chorus, which sang some of the great chamber music of the Germanic tradition, including the complete Liebeslieder waltzes. Dr. Kronauer has taught on the voice faculty of the Interlochen Arts Camp and at the University of California, Irvine.  He also had the honor of presenting a lecture to the National Association of Teacher’s of Singing on the “Dos and Don’ts of Starting a Singing Career in Germany.” Dr. Kronauer taught for three years as a member of the voice faculty, and the music director of the opera program at California State University, Los Angeles, conducting fully staged performances of Hansel and Gretel by Humperdinck and L’incornatione di Poppea, by Monteverdi.  Dr. Kronauer was the Acting Chair of the voice department of the University of California, Santa Barbara for two years and the director of opera activities producing. Currently Dr. Kronauer has a busy private voice studio and is on the faculty of California State University, Long Beach at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music teaching voice and German diction. 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Thoughts from Princess Diana, and Same Kind of Different As Me book and movie.

(Jan 4, 2017) We first met Samantha Stinson at the Howl Story Slam in Potsdam on September 17, 2016. Her story there won her a spot in our Grand Slam at Pickens Hall in Heuvelton just a few days later. There she told us about missing a professional opportunity because of her unexpectedly growing family.Samantha Stinson lives in Potsdam. She recently earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Voice Performance from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. She told her story at our Howl Grand Slam event in Heuvelton on September 22.