The Contemporary Commercial Music Vocal Pedagogy Institute
July 13-21
2019
2019
Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
DR. INGO TITZE
Dr. Ingo R. Titze is a University of Iowa Foundation Distinguished Professor in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology and the School of Music. He also directs the National Center for Voice and Speech, which is located at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and The University of Iowa. Although he was formally educated as a physicist (Ph.D.) and engineer (M.S.E.E.), Dr. Titze has applied his scientific knowledge to a lifelong love of clinical voice and vocal music. Specifically, his research interests include biomechanics of human tissues, acoustic phonetics, speech science, voice disorders, professional voice production, musical acoustics, and the computer simulation of voice.
Dr. Titze has published over 350 articles in scientific and educational journals, authored books entitled Principles of Voice Production and The Myoelastic-Aerodynamic Theory of Phonation and is currently completing his third book, entitled Vocology.
Dr. Titze is the father of vocology, a specialty within speech-language pathology. He has defined the word and the specialty as “the science and practice of voice habilitation.”
2018 CCM Institute's Guest Roster
Dr.YsayeM.Barnwell, one of the founding members of Sweet Honey in the Rock beginning in 1979 has had an illustrious career in the arts and science. She served as the Sing Language Interpreter for the ensemble as well as a performing artist and singer. She has earned a Bachelor and Master of Science degree in Speech Pathology as well as a Doctor of Philosophy in Speech Pathology from University of Pittsburgh. She received the Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the Meadville Lombard Theological Seminary in Chicago in 2009 and the Virginia Theological Seminary in 2011. For over a decade, Dr. Barnwell was a professor at the College of Dentistry at Howard University, after which she conducted community based projects in computer technology and the arts, and administered health programs at Children's Hospital National Medical Center in Washington, DC. Her workshop “Building a Vocal Community®:Singing in the African American Tradition” has been conducted on three continents, making her work in the field a significant source of inspiration for both singers and non -singers, a model of pedagogy for educators, and cultural activists and historians. Dr. Barnwell has been a commissioned composer on numerous choral, film, video, dance and theatrical projects including Sesame Street, Dance Alloy of Pittsburgh, David Rousseve’s Reality Dance Company, The New Spirituals Project, GALA Festival Choruses, MUSE:Cincinnati’sWomen’s Chorus, The Steel Festival: Art of an Industry (Bethlehem, PA, The King’s Singers in England. In 1996 she was awarded the Bessie Award for her score Safe House: Still Looking, commissioned by Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. The year 2001 saw the premiere of the work Suite Death, a setting of four poems by Langston Hughes for baritone, choir and orchestra, commissioned by the Plymouth Music Series in Minneapolis, MN. In Feb. 2003, the Choral Arts Society of Washington, DC premiered Truth Pressed to Earth Shall Rise, a choral work, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Most recently, she was commissioned by the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra and Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, CT to compose a musical setting for Marilyn Nelson’s epic poem Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem. This cantata premiered in Waterbury on May 9, 2009 and there have been three performances since. In 2011 Barnwell curated the year long FORTUNE’S BONES PROJECT® for the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland which featured public discu ssions and two performances of the cantata. Several other communities are now exploring how they might present the Project.
Four axioms have proven significant in Barnwell’s life. To whom much is given, much is required. As one door closes, another door opens. Everything matters. Say Yes!
DR. YSAYE BARNWELL
Dr. Wendy LeBorgne, voice pathologist and singing voice specialist, is the clinical director of the Blaine Block Institute for Voice Analysis and Rehabilitation (Dayton, Ohio) and the Professional Voice Center of Greater Cincinnati. She is on the adjunct faculty at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Dr. LeBorgne holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre from Shenandoah University and master and doctoral degrees in communication sciences and disorders with a specialty in voice disorders from the University of Cincinnati. Her research has focused primarily on the area of the Broadway “belt” voice. Dr. LeBorgne’s original peer-reviewed research has been published in the Journal of Voice, and she is a contributing author to the book Voice Therapy: Clinical Studies, providing a case study on “Vocal Intervention with the Touring Broadway Actor.” She has authored a training DVD entitled Laryngeal Videostroboscopic Images: Normal and Pathologic Samples, distributed by Plural Publishing and co-authored The Vocal Athlete with Marci Rosenberg. Dr. LeBorgne actively presents and provides workshops and master classes nationally and internationally on the professional performing voice. Her patients can be seen and heard on Broadway stages, national and international tours, opera companies throughout the world, network television, commercial music recordings, and as radio personalities. As a voice pathologist and singing voice specialist, her clinical work includes providing voice evaluations and therapy for singers and actors locally and nationally. In addition to her duties as a voice pathologist, Dr. LeBorgne continues to maintain an active professional performing career. Dr. LeBorgne has been a guest faculty member of the Shenandoah University CCM Institute since 2006.
DR. WENDY LEBORGNE
MARCI ROSENBERG
Marci Daniels Rosenberg BM, MS, CCC-SLP, is a singer, voice teacher, and a licensed speech-language pathologist at the Vocal Health Center in the Department of Otolaryngology at Michigan Medicine. As a voice and singing specialist, she has worked clinically to rehabilitate injured voices, with specific expertise in
musical theatre and contemporary vocal styles since 2001. After completing her Bachelor of Music in classical vocal performance (Peabody Conservatory) and a Bachelor of Science in speech pathology, Ms. Rosenberg was a research fellow in the Voice and Speech Lab at the National Institute on Deafness and Other
Communication Disorders before finishing her Master’s degree in speech language pathology. A nationally recognized singing voice specialist, Marci actively teaches workshops and lectures on vocal health, performance voice, managing vocal injuries, and application of kinesiology and exercise physiology principles to voice training. Currently, she is a featured guest teacher at The New CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute at Shenandoah. She is co-author of the popular, internationally recognized singing science textbook The Vocal Athlete and its companion workbook The
Vocal Athlete: Application and Technique for the Hybrid Singer (Plural Publishing, 2014). Marci is an inaugural member of the Pan American Vocology Association (PAVA) and currently serves as the Vice President. She is the Co- Chair of the international collaborative VASTA/PAVA conference in Seattle this August. In
addition to her clinical activities, Ms. Rosenberg continues to perform and maintains a private voice consulting studio in the Ann Arbor area.
SHERI SANDERS
Sheri Sanders is a professional actor who has gone from playing Little Becky in the National Tour of Urinetown to Kitty in the opera The Screams of Kitty Genovese to 3 productions ofThe Full Monty to playing a squirrel and a muskrat in Goodspeed’s Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas—and literally everything in between. In 2004, Sheri noticed that the radio was changing the climate of musical theatre and created Rock The Audition, a masterclass in auditioning for ROCK Musicals. The class became a cult hit in NYC- and Sheri became the worlds preeminent popular music repertoire coach. Sanders cold-called Hal Leonard Publishing and in 2011 became the first author to publish a book on the new relationship between popular music and Musical Theatre. Rock The Audition: How to Prepare for and Get Cast in Musicals brought her to to 55 Musical Theatre programs in 4 years providing students, teachers and coaches the skills to successfully research, prepare and perform all styles of popular music. Sheri approached Tony Award-winning Broadway producer Hunter Arnold with an innovative idea to expand the reach of her unique training. Together, they created Rock The Performance—an online platform that provides instructional videos, industry guest content, custom sheet music and accompaniment in all styles that sounds awesome on piano. Her interactive 8-week On-Line Rock Musical Theatre Training Program makes it possible for musical theatre programs and individual professional performers to study directly with Sheri from every corner of the world. Sanders returned to professional acting this year to lead by example, playing Golde in Fiddler on The Roof, she made her Off-Broadway debut in Newsical, and sang Disco music on roller skates doing high character work in Xanadu.
"This has truly been a life changing experience for me. I came with high expectations and they were surpassed many times over. Thank you!"
Amanda Vander Woude
2018 Participant