Summer 2024 Conference: Sunday
Sunday 21 July
Keynote from Rebecca Moseley-Morgan
Pedagogy for the Mature Voice
Rebecca Moseley-Morgan has recently completed a 10 year longitudinal doctoral study on the mature voice. This includes an awareness of how age-related changes may affect the voice, how to recognise these changes and how to target vocal functionality in order to maintain the longevity of the voice. It is widely recognised that singing is beneficial for both mental and physical health, therefore maintaining vocal functionality is of great importance. The exciting findings from this study demonstrate that vocal functionality can be maintained and singers can sing into senescence.
AOTOS 2024 AGM
Mini presentations
2 x 15-minute presentations from AOTOS members and wider community.
We are welcoming submissions to present an abstract until 1 April 2024. Find all the details here.
How to work with singers in a choral context with practitioners from National Youth Choir
Practical workshop with Jo Sear
A workshop on where to begin when teaching rock and pop styles for the first time
Keynote from Nicola Harrison (followed by practical workshop)
Introducing EMBODIMA
Embodima is an elite motor training protocol for activating and coordinating the muscles of singing. Around 95% of these muscles are not under our conscious control let alone the complex coordinations required to create embodied vocalisation.
Embodima distills this complexity, offering a simple image and gesture for every vocal task from intervals of a third to far more complex tasks such as octave leaps, coloratura, legato, breath release, maintaining airflow and far more. In these two sessions we will look at the science and anatomy that lies behind Embodima, experiment with some images and work with these in a piece of music. We will then open the presentation out into a trainer-led workshop for attendees in the afternoon. This will be led by Nicola with Embodima trainers, Rachel Logan and Rebecca Cooch.
Choice of workshops:
- Embodima workshop led by Nicola Harrison
- NYC practical workshop
