This blog post is an excerpt of my most recent post in the Vocal Edu series for Vocal Blog. Here I share some thoughts on how to make sure you get the most out of your practice session by becoming cl...
In my very first blog post I was writing about the many shoes I wear and the boxes I have tried to fit myself in. The past week has been a week of changing shoes frequently indeed! Performing Esther ...
This weekend, a tweet by Gerald Marko at The Voice Gym in Australia caught my eye: He who dares to teach must never cease to learn. - Unknown source Wise words, and thank you for sharing them on Twit...
Weekend is here with lots of nice things to look forward to. Tomorrow, as a start in my resolution to continue developing myself, I will participate in a workshop on Alexander Technique and Voice wit...
Last Thursday Esther and I played another living room concert with our project ‘Tom Waits in a New Coat of Paint’. The concert was an initiative by people who were in the audience of one ...
Dear readers, I have exciting news and a request for help. I am about to embark on a research project, and have just recently started collecting materials and putting together a list of wanna-read bo...
If I were to give the past months a theme, that would be ‘work and career’. January through March were extremely busy months with teaching, workshops, and performing. It was all nice, but...
Why is it often easier for us to say what we don’t like about our (singing) voice, than saying what we do like about it? Why is it easier for some to accept negative feedback than to genuinely ...
Recently I started re-reading ‘The Art Of Possibility‘ by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander. It is one of those books I would recommend everyone to read: teachers and students, bo...
Why is (basic) understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the voice important for singers? 1.If you know how the voice works, you can work with it instead of against it. This will speed up your l...
Here are two of my favorite resources for singing teachers and students who want to learn more about the anatomy of the voice. These resources focus on the anatomy of the larynx (voice box): Anatomia...
Today, I wanted to share these 10 thoughts with you. I received them years ago, at the end of my specialization course in Music and Movement (Orff-Schulwerk) during my Music Education studies at the ...
This is one of my favorite TED talks. Elizabeth Gilbert (author of Eat, Pray, Love) talks about creativity and creative genius. She reminds us of the many impossible things we expect from artists. Th...
THIS BLOG POST IS THE LAST ONE IN THE SERIES ‘HOW SONG INTERPRETATION CAN SAVE YOU FROM YOUR NERVES’. HERE YOU CAN READ THE PREVIOUS POST. Sorry for the little delay! I came down with a very nasty fl...
THIS BLOG POST IS #4 IN THE SERIES ‘HOW SONG INTERPRETATION CAN SAVE YOU FROM YOUR NERVES’. HERE YOU CAN READ THE PREVIOUS POST. Today we will examine how to make the song interesting by adding some ...
THIS BLOG POST IS #3 IN THE SERIES ‘HOW SONG INTERPRETATION CAN SAVE YOU FROM YOUR NERVES’. HERE YOU CAN READ THE PREVIOUS POST. In this series of blog posts we are examining some tools that w...
This blog post is #2 in the series ‘How Song Interpretation Can Save You From Your Nerves’. Here you can read the previous post. Today we will have a look at the first tool to help...
One of the reasons to why some singers experience performance anxiety is they feel uncomfortable being put in the spotlight. They feel uncomfortable feeling expectations from the audience, afraid to ...
The subject of singing – how it can be learned, and how it is taught – is something that keeps my mind busy. This blog post was previously published in the Music In All blog. While Jeanne and I are c...
I played a little association game on ‘blue’. Blue is… …a color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly ...
Since 2008 I teach singing workshops at Buitenkunst. Buitenkunst (‘Outdoor Arts’) organizes projects in dance, theater, music, literature, visual arts, photography and video. During the s...
This is a post in the series of special guests sharing their Lessons From The Road: things they have learned and experiences they have had in their music (teaching) careers. The guest is a singer/son...
Last week I received a message from a singer I have been coaching: Hi Katja, I just wanted to let you know that my last rehearsal went much better. Being in ‘my own garden’ helped me a lot. In our se...
This weekend I had to think about the importance of rest and ‘oyster moments’ (let me explain that one later on). Rest for body and mind (emptying your head), and rest as in sleep (so und...
A while ago I read an interesting blog post by Bill Plake on Two Habits Of Thinking That Will Limit Your Growth As A Musician. One of the limiting thoughts he elaborates on is: I won’t let myself sou...
On this sunny Saturday I want to share one of my favorite Brazilian songs with you: ‘Rosa’ by Pixinguinha and Otávio de Sousa. I got introduced to Brazilian Portuguese and the music of Br...
Yesterday I gave two workshops for the singing students of the Jazz & Pop department at ArtEZ Conservatory. The workshop was an introduction to the techniques in CVT (Complete Vocal Technique), ...
I am just back from Helsinki where I had a gig together with lovely Maija Ruuskanen, singing some songs that she has composed. Maija is currently composing the music for the new stage production of E...
Esther and I are getting more requests to perform our program ‘Tom Waits in a New Coat of Paint’. We have had enthusiastic reactions from people who saw our concerts during Cult Royale. P...
I had teaching role models when I grew up, and when I studied music. I have been thinking about some general characteristics these teachers shared. I teach quite a lot of professional singers who als...
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