2011 Session: 18-26 June
Fine Arts Building
410 South Michigan, Suite 825
Chicago, Illinois
Voices of the Millennium is a unique summer course for singers and pianists, focusing on the abilities of both performers to express, as actors, the texts of the songs and arias before performing the music, thus ensuring precise understanding of the texts and discovering colors and intensities that deepen the artistry of the final musical performance.
The distinguishing feature of a fine singing artist is the way in which the text, whether libretto of an opera or the poem of an art song, is painted. The technique of singing has this as its end: the expression in sound of the words.
Voices of the Millennium seeks to deepen the understanding of singing and collaborative artists by a thorough examination of the texts, in great detail. In this course, singers and pianists are first asked to tie their breathing to the sounds they make through Fitzmaurice Voicework. Voicework is a synthesis of yoga, bioenergetics, shiatsu, Alexander and meditation techniques. Using this released physical energy, performers then recite the words to songs and arias, both in the original languages and in English, until they achieve a personal, emotional understanding--coming to know not just the meaning of the words, but also individual subtext from the body's core. Thus singers and pianists acquire first-hand information about how composers constructed phrases to highlight certain words, and how those words might be colored. Read more about Voicework at http://www.fitzmauricevoice.com
Voices of the Millennium: Bring your interpretation to life.
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