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I will try in this article to analyze one of the many questions I receive from students, colleagues, or reflecting on speeches that are enabled or read here and there inside the
discussion forums on the web.
"In your opinion, for a" modern "singing teacher, is it also necessary to be a good" modern "performer?"
Well, allow me to start by saying that being a modern singing teacher of the twenty -first century is really difficult, even more if you have to embrace two worlds, that of teaching and that of performative art.
We start first of all from the "singing" topic that allows us to be teachers but at the same time craftsmen being an expression linked to art. Canto craftsmen, a beautiful phrase, perhaps a little retro or démodé, but still current. Impermage the teaching of singing as a place where the shop of the shop exhibits his vases, his works and, as if by magic, thanks He succeeds in his skill, and transmits his singing knowledge, in his uniqueness and transparency.
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Very according with this reading of the "stage experience". It is precisely there that the difference is triggered. I spent the first twelve years of work as a singer only on the stage, after the Conservatory. I continued to form all the time, and continuing a strong artistic activity "of stage" (about 80/100 annual locations) for 5 years I joined a sublime teaching like Francesca Della Monica, asking her to become her assistant and to help her in the masterclass Looking at and trying from outside to take thousands of notes on actors and singers. Only at 36 I started to train people independently, and continuing both myself and to lend artistic activities.
I believe, however, that this gap the students feel very clearly, without doubt. I think it is very important that the students can see us "in action", I think it is a substantial difference.
Thank you very dear for your careful rereading concerning this articles.
In your reflection, the word observation that she quotes is one of the foundations in my opinion to obtain not so much the best result for the learner, but allows you to be able to live the constant becoming of mutual learning and respectful of the value of a set called "exploratory sound mystery ".
Good singing and see you here in this space.
Albert
Beautiful Albert article, you agree!
To my venerable age I finally feel comfortable in teaching. Indeed, the teaching is the place where I found another house, I feel like saying,
shared cuisine. I specialized in
participatory performances or in the shows in which, while I pierces, I actively involve the learners. In this way we live together the process of growth and change.
Beautiful image the one proposed, the shared cuisine.
Sharing one's teaching in participatory performance is certainly a way to be able to bring the learner closer to the beauty of performative learning.