Studio Philosophy

Welcome to the second installment of a series on teaching voice lessons in a deterministic worldview. Introduction and Reminders To set the stage, we are continuing to consider what it means if the universe is deterministic. For me, that also means the universe is incompatible with free will. I will use the two terms interchangeably in my writing. It is worth noting there are philosophers who don’t automatically link those two concepts together, though that is the most common

Last week I wrote an introductory post outlining some of the forces at play in singing and teaching. In this series, I want to go much deeper and examine what it means to teach and to learn singing in a deterministic universe. This first post focuses on what technique actually is under a deterministic framework. Later posts will examine: the singer’s responsibility, the teacher’s responsibility, and finally, practical teaching strategies that follow from this view. My hope i

What is voice teaching, really? My definition is: voice teaching is the act of helping singers gain facility in creating expressive...

Over the past twenty years, I’ve been collecting ideas about singing and teaching—not just about how to sing, but about how singing and...