Vocal Training Workshop: Mastering Vocal Performance

Synopsis

Your body is utterly aware... Anxiety is at a minimum...
The stage below you is absolutely synced with the piece you are about to sing...

Ever felt just like that before a vocal performance?
Have you, but want to master all the techniques that will assure you will always feel as prepared?

Then this is the perfect workshop for you.

Enhance your performance skills to your best potential as a solo singer as well as an ensemble vocalist. From October to March, you will work on the development of your singing voice through body awareness—applying the Feldenkrais Method—and voice techniques from the worlds of classical, jazz and contemporary music. Aural awareness will be improved through ear exercises, and ensemble singing. Techniques for performance practice and dealing with performance anxiety will be addressed. During this process you will work on individual song interpretation/presentation, ensemble singing, and voice improvisation. The workshop will be divided in two periods of 8 weeks (a total of 40 hours).

• Open to people with a background in singing.

• To be able to participate in the final concert, students have to do Workshop Part I & Part II.

• As a finalization of the workshop there will be an open concert in April 2012, and we will be rehearsing with an accompanist musician during Workshop Part II.

Workshop Meets:

Saturdays, 2:30 to 5pm (total of 40 hours)

PART I	PART II
Week 1 - Oct 22 Week 2 - Oct 29 Week 3 - Nov 5 Week 4 - Nov 12 Week 5 - Nov 26 Week 6 - Dec 3 Week 7 - Dec 10 Week 8 - Dec 17	Week 9 - Jan 28 Week 10 - Feb 4 Week 11 - Feb 11 Week 12 - Feb 18 Week 13 - March 3 Week 14 - March 17 Week 15 - March 24 Week 16 - March 31

 

About the instructor: Sabrina Lastman

Sabrina Lastman is a vocalist, composer and educator born in Montevideo, Uruguay. Drawing from jazz, Latin American, and contemporary music, often integrating extended vocal techniques Sabrina concentrates her work on jazz projects, and the creation of interdisciplinary performances combining voice, sound, electronics, movement, and visuals. Sabrina has performed at Carnegie Hall, Classical Guitar Association of NY, Blues Alley Jazz, Blue Note, Joe's Pub, Museo del Barrio, Juilliard, CUNY, Yale University, and NYU, among others. She has played with musicians such as Fernando Otero, Meredith Monk, Bakithi Kumalo, Tali Roth, Pablo Aslan, Emilio Solla, Pedro Giraudo, David Silliman, The M6, Sasha Bogdanowitsch, Philip Hamilton, Alexander Norris, and Meg Okura. Her album The Folds of the Soul was nominated by the Graffiti Award 2008 as one of the best jazz albums of the year, and it was considered of cultural interest by the Ministry of Culture and Education in Uruguay. She was awarded grants by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) & New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). She has taught at the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA), IATI Theater, Middlebury College, Portland Arts & Technology School, Movement Research, New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW), Actors Movement Studio, Teatro La Tea, Art for Change, Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, and privately at her own studio. She's the co-director of Vital Vox a vocal festival exploring the myriad power of the human voice in its solo and ensemble forms across a multitude of genres by vocal artists creating and performing their own original work. She has toured internationally playing in many musical and interdisciplinary projects from Tango to New Music. Sabrina is a Feldenkrais Method ATM Teacher and graduated from The Jerusalem Academy of Music & Dance in Israel.

Registration must be completed by October 15, 2011

How to register

To register for this workshop, complete the Registration form and Pay Registration online. To pay by check, still complete the registration form and mail your check to the address below. Mailing address is below. Please write check to "IATI Theater."

IATI Theater
59-61 East 4th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10003
Attention: Winston Estevez
winston@iatitheater.org

NOTE: After you complete both registration and payment for the workshop, you will receive an e-mail confirming your registration. If you do not receive your confirmation e-mail at least one week prior to the workshop, please phone us to double check your registration status.