Bel Canto Singing School or Class in Italy
Mar 16th, 2013, 02:46 PM
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asps: Thanks. I will therefore wait. My vacations are all accounted for this year. So I am looking forward to trips in 2014, especially in the Spring.
Very interesting. It looks like there are more voice teachers or music schools in Florence/Firenze than elsewhere in Italy? I wonder why?
Just a little more explanation. I don't know how to read music and have never joined a choir, or sung in the public (except in company functions). I just sing for my own pleasure in private. I had never taken a singing lesson in my life until a couple of months ago, when I started a 1/2 hour lessons each week - I've had 3-4 lessons so far cause the teacher cancelled on me a few times. A couple of weeks ago I also started a lesson with a teacher in Firenze through Skype. So far I've had 2 one-hour lessons.
Having said that, there are things that my teacher here told me that I have been doing correctly. I have always been using diaphragm breathing all my life. To me clavicular breathing is unnatural, because if you watch a baby breathe, he/she does it using the abdomen. So for that my teacher said that I have been using the right support (appoggio) when I sing. I also understand the difference between chest voice, head voice and passaggio, but I have problem with my voice breaking during the passaggio and I don't know how to "fix" that. I also understand that the mouth and the nasal spaces are used for the sound resonance to add "colore" to your voice, and not to just belt out the sound with the diaphragm in order to fill the room/hall.
There are a few things I want from a GOOD voice teacher:
1) am I a baritone or a tenor? if I am a tenor, a "lyric" or "heroic"/"Spinto" etc. etc. My teacher here says I am a tenor but the teacher in Firenze says I am a baritone!
2) how do I do the passaggio correctly? the teacher here gave a demonstration and he is so good that when his head voice trails off it sounded like he was walking farther and farther away. But he never explained to me satisfactorily how to do it.
3) how do I expand my octave, especially the high notes. I have combed through many you-tubes instructions and they are all very vague. I know that scientifically, a high note is when you pass more pressure through an opening (larynx), but how one does a C or a high C I have no idea.
Very interesting. It looks like there are more voice teachers or music schools in Florence/Firenze than elsewhere in Italy? I wonder why?
Just a little more explanation. I don't know how to read music and have never joined a choir, or sung in the public (except in company functions). I just sing for my own pleasure in private. I had never taken a singing lesson in my life until a couple of months ago, when I started a 1/2 hour lessons each week - I've had 3-4 lessons so far cause the teacher cancelled on me a few times. A couple of weeks ago I also started a lesson with a teacher in Firenze through Skype. So far I've had 2 one-hour lessons.
Having said that, there are things that my teacher here told me that I have been doing correctly. I have always been using diaphragm breathing all my life. To me clavicular breathing is unnatural, because if you watch a baby breathe, he/she does it using the abdomen. So for that my teacher said that I have been using the right support (appoggio) when I sing. I also understand the difference between chest voice, head voice and passaggio, but I have problem with my voice breaking during the passaggio and I don't know how to "fix" that. I also understand that the mouth and the nasal spaces are used for the sound resonance to add "colore" to your voice, and not to just belt out the sound with the diaphragm in order to fill the room/hall.
There are a few things I want from a GOOD voice teacher:
1) am I a baritone or a tenor? if I am a tenor, a "lyric" or "heroic"/"Spinto" etc. etc. My teacher here says I am a tenor but the teacher in Firenze says I am a baritone!
2) how do I do the passaggio correctly? the teacher here gave a demonstration and he is so good that when his head voice trails off it sounded like he was walking farther and farther away. But he never explained to me satisfactorily how to do it.
3) how do I expand my octave, especially the high notes. I have combed through many you-tubes instructions and they are all very vague. I know that scientifically, a high note is when you pass more pressure through an opening (larynx), but how one does a C or a high C I have no idea.
Mar 17th, 2013, 02:27 AM
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John - perhaps something you might look for is a summer school for singers in the US. often these are aimed at choral singers [like me] but not always I suspect - the US is such a large market that there's probably something out there that would suit you.
as for why Florence is such centre for music I can't say; I do know that when I was looking for a language school, i was overwhelmed by the numbers of them, so much so that I looked elsewhere.
as for why Florence is such centre for music I can't say; I do know that when I was looking for a language school, i was overwhelmed by the numbers of them, so much so that I looked elsewhere.
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