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Florence Voice Seminar
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The 2010 Florence Voice Seminar marks our ninth season is Florence. The program runs from May 16 through June 8, 2010. |
Started by Julian Rodescu, Laura Brooks Rice, and Scott Hoerl, the Florence Voice Seminar provides a quaity summer vocal study experience for advanced students and young professional singers. The program allows for great vocal progress for the university voice student or a time to polish and refresh the technique and artitry of a young singer already singing professionally. The program also allows students to become more familiar with the Italian language through daily Italian classes (beginner or intermediate) and language immersion.
Program Highlights
Our philosophy is to work together to enable the singer to make maximum progress, including daily consultations among the faculty and a common point of view about vocal technique and presentation. Because our program is designed to maximize each participant's progres, we ensure that each singer received a private lesson or private coaching daily. There are musical coachings, focusing on phrasing, diction, and interpretation, as well as dramatic coachings to explore the techniques of successfully presenting your aria or ensemble. Additionally, daily Master Classes reinforce concepts and provide an opportunity to perform in front of others in groups of 4-6 singers. Voice teachers rotate teaching the Master Classes so that each student is exposed to each teacher.
Student participate in two public concerts at the conclusion of the seminar.
Friendship and camaraderie is further aided by our realization that each singer is at a different stage in his or her development and our only goal is vocal progress.
Activities
Occassional group meals, weekend trips, and group cultural tours further our objective to enrich each participant's experience in Florence. Students are also encouraged to explore Florence on their own.
The maximum enrollment in the Florence Voice Seminar is 35 singers.
Who should attend the Florence Voice Seminar?
- Professional singers seeking to refine or improve his or her technique, presentation, musicality, audition skills
- Advanced university students looking for a quality summer program that combines intense study with unbeatable location
- Younger singers studying privately who are looking for more feedback and searching for the next step in his or her career
- Singers willing to work hard toward improvement
What repertoire do students need?
- Participants that are admitted to the program should bring 4 or 5 arias/songs to work on. Two should be close to performance-ready and others can be new repertoire that you are exploring.
- Being in Italy, we concentrate on Italian repertoire, but not exclusively.
- Bring at lest one piece with an Italian recitative (Mozart, Donizetti, Bellini, Rossini)
Ensembles
There will be ensembles from opera and oratorio for those who express an interest. Those participating in an ensemble must arrive in Florence with their parts completely memorized (off-book) so that we can work on interpretation and staging. Coachings for ensembles will be in addition to the individual coachings for your solo repertoire.
Julian Rodescu, Artistic Director
Scott Hoerl, Administrator
