It's Here!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go ahead everyone. Mark it on your calendars. The Utah Southern Chapter of NATS Auditions! I expect everyone who qualifies to participate! March 4th and 5th at BYU- we will be resurrecting oldies from last semester to polish and perform for this event!

This opportunity is SOOOOOOO STINKIN' valuable for your music education (and for mine too!). The opportunity to sing and get feedback from other teachers..........................all I can say is AWE-SOME!

Entrance fee is $15 plus the cost of an accompanist (which, hopefully will be relatively minimal). Those wishing to participate in more then one division may do so but there is an entry fee for EACH division.

I am so excited for ya'll to have this experience. Been waiting for YEARS to be able to participate! We'll talk more particulars in lessons but please MARK THESE DATES!!!: march 4th and 5th.

See you Wednesday!

Parents- A link

Here is a fabulous link for parents of children in music......................:
http://greenroom.fromthetop.org/?s=parents+perspective

Enjoy!

Vocal Straw Exercise

Just you wait everyone! Straw exercises are coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Opportunity

Dear Students and Parents:

There is an AWESOME opportunity on Sat, Jan 15th to go to the National Center for Vocal Studies in SLC and chat with Ingo Titze as part of a National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) activity. This is a very rare opportunity and I encourage everyone to attend-especially when it is only on occasion that students are invited! I will drive and have room for 5 extra people. We will leave around 8:30 AM that morning as the event starts at 10 AM. I know this is early for a Saturday but I think it will be well worth the sleep missed (or made up on the drive there and back!)

I need an RSVP/head count by TOMORROW (as required by NATS). I know that is a short notice but I just received the email that students were invited yesterday. I would love for all of you to have an opportunity such as this one. Ingo Titze is one of the BIG GUYS in the vocal studies area, if not THE guy and has amazing new information to share. You'll find a small bio on the tale end of this email

Either way, please reply yes or no ASAP!

Reminder that lessons do not start until Jam 19th. I have dates for the semester and am in the process of typing things up.

Hope to see you next week!

Tiffany

Bio:
Ingo R. Titze, Executive Director

* One of the world\'s leading voice scientists
* Published over 400 articles on voice
* Author of Principles of Voice Production - used worldwide as an
introductory text, and translated into multiple languages.
* Author of The Myoelastic Aerodynamic Theory of Phonation – used
by engineers and physicists
* Co-Author of Vocology – written for clinicians and vocal
pedagogues
* The father of Vocology, the science and practice of voice
habilitation; invented the word.
* University of Iowa Foundation Distinguished Professor of Speech
Science and Voice.
* Degrees in Electrical Engineering (B.S.E.E., M.S.) and Physics
(Ph.D.)
* Singing teacher; regular contributor to Journal of Singing
* Fellow of Acoustical Society of America, American Speech
Language Hearing Association, American Laryngological Association
* Bi-lingual (German, English) and bi-cultural (born in Germany)
* Singer of multiple styles - opera, Broadway, pop
* Inventor of Pavarobotti, the singing robot

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Today I was sitting in the dentist's chair watching Dr. Oz and THIS came on! I was so excited I talked the dentist into letting me stay few minutes after he was finished to watch. SOOOO educational. Take a few minutes to watch these few clips......
Tiffany

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NATS Convention

Hello everyone! Just checking in after two FABULOUS days of the NATS Convention. I found a website that ya'll should check out: http://www.ncvs.org/index.html. It has online tutorials about the voice that would be very informative. Check out the site- it's awesome!