ANATS Presents an Early Career Teaching Session: Lighten the Load - Practical strategies to manage vocal load and build stamina for Voice Teachers and Choir Directors

Does your voice start to let you down at the end of a long day of teaching?

Do you find it hard to get going vocally when you have early morning rehearsal or teaching?

Do you have students who experience or show signs of vocal fatigue?

When your voice is an integral part of your job, it’s important to ensure its health and longevity.

Vocal coaches, singing teachers, and choir directors have a high ‘vocal load’ compared to most other professions. This can lead to increased risk of vocal fatigue and injury. Not only do they need vocal stamina, they also need their voices to be of a consistently high quality over long days of singing.

This practical workshop for early career singing teachers, vocal coaches and choir directors will give you tools to:

·       Increase your vocal efficiency and reduce vocal fatigue so you can teach better for longer

·       Know the warning signs of vocal fatigue and when to seek professional vocal healthcare

·       Recover from vocal fatigue more quickly

·       Help singers you work with achieve increased vocal efficiency and stamina

This workshop is designed specifically for singing teachers in the first five (5) years of their teaching careers. Content will focus on foundational teaching skills, practical strategies and topics relevant to those who are beginning to establish their teaching practice.

Please note that Early Career Teacher workshops are introductory in nature and are not intended as professional development for experienced singing teachers. We encourage experienced teachers to explore other workshop sessions that offer content more suited to their level of teaching experience.

MEET THE PRESENTER

Jennifer Turnbull

Jennifer enjoys a broad and varied career in music. She has post graduate diplomas in Vocal and Opera Performance from Queensland Conservatorium (Griffith University) along with a Masters in Teaching. She has performed with Opera Queensland and Opera Australia. She also works as the Vocal Coach to Schools Spectacular, preparing young singers of high ability to appear as featured artists in a live stadium production broadcast on national television. Jennifer’s holistic approach to voice is the result of her continuous learning across voice science and performance psychology. This allows her to help singers across the genres of contemporary, music theatre and classical to achieve their vocal goals. Her clients work in professional music theatre productions, record and release their own music, and gig professionally.