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Alexandra Loutsion and Annie Rosen on growing technique through repertoire

Release Date: 08/19/2020

Othalie Graham, Dramatic Soprano, discusses staying true to your technique and natural voice

Voice with Julia Podcast

Dramatic Soprano, Othalie Graham, stresses staying true to your technique, especially with the pressures of the outside world, and different opinions on how a dramatic voice should sound and operate. She emphasizes the importance of knowing your own instrument.

The Tongue Symposium: Day Two

Voice with Julia Podcast

How poor oral resting posture impacts breathing. Compensations singers with tongue-ties and lip-ties create to produce sounds. Before/After release singing videos.

The Tongue Symposium: Day One

Voice with Julia Podcast

How to identify oral tethers in singers and how having a tongue-tie or lip-tie can affect your singing- plus personal journeys!

Babatunde Akinboboye discusses Baritone technique & #HipHopera

Voice with Julia Podcast

Sitting down with Babatunde Akinboboye, Operatic Baritone & creator of the musical genre #hiphopera was like a masterclass in technical imagination. The analogies and sensations Babatunde expresses to explain vocal events is worth the watch.

Jennifer Larmore discusses solidifying technique through emotion

Voice with Julia Podcast

Jennifer Larmore is an American mezzo-soprano, two-time Grammy Award winner, and one of my first opera idols. I hope you enjoy this conversation where we discuss breathing optimization, clear vowels, coloratura, and more!

Katrina Galka discusses spending time getting to know your instrument through mindful practice

Voice with Julia Podcast

Soprano, Katrina Galka talks about spending time getting to know her instrument with mindful practice, creating her practice process, and training her whistle register.

Baritone, Jorell Williams, discusses reworking his breath and how it changed his career path

Voice with Julia Podcast

Grammy nominated baritone, Jorell Williams talks about the constant refining of the voice, the visceral feelings and aural sensations of singing, and reworking his breath and how it changed his career path.

Rebecca Davis discusses connecting the body, mind and spirit in technique

Voice with Julia Podcast

Soprano, Rebecca Davis discusses rehabilitating the breath and support system after surgery, and embracing vocal growth and changes.

Ferdinand von Bothmer discusses the tenor registration and repertoire

Voice with Julia Podcast

Tenor, Ferdinand von Bothmer, discusses training the breath via coloratura, the tenor high notes, registration, and his transition into singing heavier repertoire.

Gabriel Preisser talks about the challenges of being a young baritone

Voice with Julia Podcast

Baritone, Gabriel Preisser, discusses baritone technique for navigating the passaggio. He goes deep into the dangers of muscling the sound as a young baritone, and explaining the voice turning over.

More Episodes

What happens when a DRAMATIC Soprano, Alexandra Loutsion, and a Mezzo, Annie Rosen, who “will crush your soul” come for a chat?

(This is a normal occurrence on Voice with Julia’s #TECHNIQUETALKS)

Alex sings the nice LADIES like Turandot, Tosca, and Elektra with companies like San Francisco Opera, Canadian Opera Company, and Pittsburgh Opera.

Watch Alex tear it up as Turandot: https://youtu.be/NyM5ExJkU9Q

Annie rips up the stage with roles like Adalgisa, Suzuki, and Melisande and at theaters like Lyric Opera of Chicago, Deutsche Opera Berlin, The Metropolitan Opera, and sings some amazing new operas like Akhnaten and Bel Canto.

Hear Annie crush your soul: https://youtu.be/2-5AL_4NASk

Watch interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tuwPL-MdRVs

Voice with Julia’s #techniquetalks is where we demystify conversations surrounding vocal technique with 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝-𝐭𝐡𝐞-𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 to great singers of today. Forget what you thought you knew about singing from your pedagogy textbook. In this series, singers get real about what works, and what doesn't. Get inspired. Try these tips. 𝐔𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭.

Show Notes:

05:23 How to breathe for singing

13:19 Practicing vocal registration

20:43 How to align chest and head voice as a singer

26:15 How to sing contemporary music

29:22 How to navigate the passaggio

37:10 How to sing mezzo high notes

47:23 How to sing soprano high notes

1:00 Annie discusses her desert island vocalise

1:01:55 Alex discusses her desert island vocalise

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