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Vocal Consistency and Artistic Freedom: Existentialism and Vocal Instruction in Higher Education
As voice teachers, we should strive to help our students uncover their individual sound, and to facilitate technical consistency. Further, we as teachers should ultimately guide students to positive, independent, and emotionally engaged performances on stage - or in recordings. Some teaching approaches may guide students to these experiences – others may not. A successful outcome of vocal study occurs when the student no longer needs their teacher – they are independent and autonomous singers and musicians, and are able to teach themselves – or perhaps others. This study views the student-teacher relationship in the voice student through an existentialist lens influenced by the Sartrean principles of responsibility and freedom. This study offers a perspective that hopes to foster discussion, a re-examination of, and self-reflection in the teaching practices of higher education vocal instruction.
Dr. Susan A. Boddie, Soprano and Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY has been instructing music and performing internationally for over twenty-five years. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the New England Conservatory, a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, and a Doctoral Degree in Education from the University of Calgary with research based in the comprehensive fields of vocal pedagogy and educational philosophy. A singer-scholar, she presents at conferences and is published in peer-reviewed journals.
16 December 2020 - 9:00AM (CST Chicago USA)
Dr. Felicia J. Fricke, Department of Classical and Archaeological Studies, University of Kent, England. Fricke is an archaeologist, osteologist, and oral historian currently living in the Netherlands.
13 January 2021 - 11:00AM (CST Chicago USA)
Dr. Sufian A. Forawi, Professor and Coordinator of Science and STEM Education Programs, British University in Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
10 February 2021 - 11:00AM (CST Chicago USA)
Jörg Krieger, Assistant Professor in Sport and Social Science at the Department of Public Health at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
April Henning, Lecturer in Sport Studies in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport at the University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland
10 March 2021 - 11:00AM (CST Chicago USA)
Karen Wistoft, Professor, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University
Lars Qvortrup, Professor, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University
31 March 2021 - 11:00AM (CST Chicago USA)
Brittany Reid, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of English and Modern Languages, Thompson Rivers University, Canada
Taylor McKee, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Western University and, Instructor, Department of Philosophy, History, and Politics at Thompson Rivers University, Canada
27 May 2021 (14:00PM USA CST)
Dr. Carolin Lusby, Assistant Professor at the Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Florida International University, USA
17 June 2021 (14:00PM USA CST)
Patricia Reinheimer has experimented with art throughout her life. Knowing this, it is easier to understand her undergraduate degree in Art Education (1999), and her master's and doctorate degree in Social Anthropology (Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional, 2002 and 2008). It makes sense then that art is her main sphere of investment.
24 June 2021 (13:00PM USA CST)
Joe Recupero is an Associate Professor of the RTA School of Media, Sport Media Program, in the Faculty of Communication and Design, Ryerson University. Recupero was the recipient of the 2018 Dean's Teaching Award at Ryerson University
Laurel Walzak is an Assistant Professor of the RTA School of Media, Sport Media Program, in the Faculty of Communication and Design, Ryerson University. Walzak founded the Global Experiential Sport Lab, GXSLab www.gxslab.com, a research lab that exists within FCAD’s Catalyst Research Hub in Toronto.