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Details: Singers, singing teachers and voice health professionals with an interest in the CCM performer’s voice and work cannot miss this online BVA study weekend! International CCM vocal practitioners will share their knowledge and practical advice, exploring a variety of stylistic techniques in rock, pop, soul and R&B. As well as an enhanced understanding of the challenges that gigging singers face in their performing careers, you will gain a variety of CCM-specific teaching approaches and strategies to enhance healthy vocal performance. All sessions will be recorded and available to paid-up delegates for one month beyond the event.

Programme

Saturday, 27th November 2021

15.00 – Introduction and housekeeping

15.05 – Navigating the Vast CCM Landscape (Jo Sear and Dr Marisa Lee Naismith)

15.35 – Pedagogy of Soul (Dr Trineice Martin-Robinson)

17.05 – Break

17.20 – The Gigging Singer (Jo Sear)

18.00 – Finish

Sunday, 28th November 2021

15.00 – Housekeeping

15.05 – The World of the Band Singer (Meredith Colby)

16.30 – Break

16.45 – Acoustic Inertance (Chris Johnson)

17.45 – VoceVista in the Studio (Bodo Maass)

18.15 – Finish

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Contact: administrator@britishvoiceassociation.org.uk

Virtual 3-day conference: 3-5th September 2021.

BAPAM is very proud to be hosting a wonderful panel of experts in vocal health this week at the British Voice Association . The theme of the conference is ‘Crossing Boundaries in Voice’, with an emphasis on multidisciplinary approaches to health, performance, and research in the field of voice. Key areas for discussion include; physical and mental wellbeing for voice users, voice and the workplace, and crossing genre boundaries in pedagogy and performance.

Over 40 hours of lectures, workshops and masterclasses, from the world’s top practitioners in the field of voice, include keynotes and masterclasses from Markus Hess MD, Steven Zeitels MD, Prof. Janice Chapman, Prof. Kenneth Bozeman, and Christina Shewell.

BAPAM’s panel has been put together by Sarah Wright-Owens, one of our Vocal Rehabilitation Coaches who is also facilitating the Q&A, and BAPAM CEO Claire Cordeaux. The session will explore our Vocal Health Care Pathway, the importance of expert clinical assessment in the Voice Clinic and the multidisciplinary team.

Up to 20% of our callers present with a vocal health problem and our message to any professional voice user in this position is that they should always seek a diagnostic assessment in a Ģ��tv voice clinic run by a laryngologist or speech and language therapist.

There are so many potential causes of voice problems, that a clinical diagnosis with a scope of the vocal folds is the only way to fully understand what is going on, rule out any surgical options and guide effective treatment to resolve the problem. Once this has taken place, with a multidisciplinary team involved in the assessment, the right rehabilitation can take place.

Our panel includes presentations from key members of the multidisciplinary team:

• Declan Costello, consultant laryngologist, will talk about his role in the diagnostic process
• Tori Burnay will describe how she works as a speech and language therapist, including how she has established an SLT-led Ģ��tv voice user clinic at Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust with support from BAPAM
• Dr Anna Colton, clinical psychologist, will discuss how she works with performers where there is a psychological cause for their vocal problems
• Michael Mehta, osteopath, will talk about his approach particularly in relation to muscular tension
• Pippa Anderson, Vocal Rehabilitation Coach will outline how she uses her skills as a singing coach in the clinical setting

We are so grateful to the clinicians who bring their combined skills to work with BAPAM to resolve vocal health problems, and we thank the BVA for allowing us to bring together this stellar group of Ģ��tvs to talk about their work.

Countertenor, teacher and LGBTQ+ advocate, Alexander Pullinger, was awarded a bursary by to research a pressing issue within classical singing, one that has profound health implications for the performing arts and society as a whole.

Singing is well known to help with social isolation, mental health issues and a sense of disconnection from the body. These difficulties disproportionately impact the transgender population. Alexander explains that in his work as a freelance singer, he has found that transgender people face significant barriers to accessing singing, originating primarily from entrenched, cisgendered expectations about voice type. These expectations lead to highly gendered and/or cisgendered singing environments, in which voices are both divided along gendered lines, and expected to belong to people with a particular body type. As a result, an activity that could specifically benefit transgender people is largely unavailable to many of them. Exploring these issues, Alexander’s article identifies the main barriers, offers some ways to address them, and highlights the importance of making singing activity trans-inclusive.

The article has received positive coverage, including features on Classical Music UK and Pink News. Alexander was invited to present his research to the BBC Symphony Chorus. He is currently developing a second presentation, ‘Empowering young transgender voices through singing’, for the Music and Drama Education Expo in London in September 2021.

This article was produced for and published by Sound Connections and is available to read here: ��