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Deborah Bowes has been a Feldenkrais Teacher in San Francisco for more than 30 years. Her doctoral research investigated the use of the Feldenkrais Method to improve awareness and functioning of the pelvic floor. She does sing and play with her ukulele ensemble for many non-profit organizations, but is not a professional singer. She works with singers to improve the quality of movement, breathing and posture.
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Robert Sussuma, originally from New York City, is an explorer, a life-long learner and a connoisseur of connections: movement, speaking and singing, voice science, emotions, music, motor learning, neurology-in-action, and deep personal development. His formal education is in Vocal Performance (Bachelors of Music in Voice Performance and Masters of Music in Early Music Voice Performance) and he has performed professionally as a countertenor. In addition, he is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner. Robert has been a faculty member at Naropa University (Boulder, Colorado), Haverford College (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and PACE University (New York, New York) and a guest lecturer at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, and Barcelona University. After maintaining an active private voice studio for 20 years, in-person and online, working with well-known and successful actors and singers in NYC, on Broadway, and around the world, he has recently launched two innovative online programs that are the culmination of all of his work and discoveries designed to update the vocal system from the inside out: THE SINGING SELF PROGRAM. There's even a special track for voice teachers. For more information visit www.thesingingself.com
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As a singer and a Feldenkrais Trainer, Richard Corbeil has been contributing his unique understanding of the Feldenkrais Method® to the fields of personal development, health, and the performing arts for over 30 years. Recordings of his teaching is available on https://vocalintegration.bandcamp.com.
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Karen Clark, contralto holds degrees from the Indiana University School of Music where she studied opera and early music. She has taught in the music departments at Princeton University, Swarthmore College, Sonoma State, UC Berkeley, and in the Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California. Karen studied the Feldenkrais Method under Russell Delman and Alan Questel (1999) and since has presented workshops across the U.S. Karen’s articles on singing, The Impulse to Sing, and, Sounds Unfamiliar are published in the Feldenkrais Journal. Considered a leading interpreter of medieval and modern music, Karen has performed and recorded worldwide with eminent ensembles, such as, Boston Camerata, Sequentia, the Joshua Rifkin Bach Ensemble. Most recent recordings— on the Music & Arts label— include 12th century music of Hildegard von Bingen with her ensemble Vajra Voices, and the song cycle, Dream Drapery— Songs on Thoreau, written for her and the Galax Quartet by Pulitzer/Grammy award winning composer, Joseph Schwantner. Karen is staying home in Petaluma, CA with her partner, Roy Whelden, and cat Molly and looks forward to blackberry pie season.
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As an internationally known countertenor for four decades, Drew Minter sang leading roles in the opera houses of Brussels, Toulouse, Boston, Washington, Santa Fe, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Wolf Trap, Glimmerglass, Nice, Marseilles and others, performing with many of the world's foremost baroque orchestras, and making over 70 recordings. Drew is Senior Music Lecturer at Vassar College, where he teaches voice, choir, opera and the Feldenkrais Method to musicians; he is an opera director and teaches frequent workshops in the singing and acting of opera, incorporating several somatic methods: Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique, and the Viewpoints acting work. His additional training is in Polarity, Jin shin jyutsu, Kahuna work and Body Electric.
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Dr. Stephen A. Paparo is Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and conductor of the University Chorale. He holds degrees from Michigan State University (Ph.D.), Syracuse University (M.M.), and Ithaca College (B.M.). A Guild Certified Practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method® since 2006, he has taught Feldenkrais in the US and internationally. He is active as a guest conductor and regularly presents at international, national, and state conferences. He currently serves as Past-President for the Massachusetts chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. His research interests include the application of the Feldenkrais Method to singing instruction, non-traditional choral ensembles, and LGBTQ studies in music education. He is published in Bulletin for the Council of Research in Music Education, International Journal of Music Education, and Music Education Research, and Musicianship: Composing in Choir (GIA Publications). His compositions for beginning choirs are published by Alfred Music.