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Expert
Comments: Dr. Prakash Boominathan
Participants: K. Gayathri, Malavi Mythreyi Sasthry
Concept Direction : Mala Mohan
With more
and more people taking up Music as their profession there is a need for
understanding the dynamics of the Voice. This invaluable product is to help
singers to train their voice applying scientific methods. Properly applied,
the methods will improve Voice Quality, Vocal Range, breathing capacity,
tone placement and articulation. This product presents a Model Workshop
on Voice Training with an Instructor (Dr. S.A.K. Durga) who is an expert
on Voice Training and students who are upcoming professional singers. The
additional value in this product is the inclusion of a Panel Discussion
with a Speech Pathologist (Dr. Prakash Boominathan) on the scientific aspects
of Voice production and the role of scientific methods in Voice training.
Dr. Prakash Boominathan is also a Faculty at the Department of Speech Pathology,
Sri Ramachandra University.
Dr.S.A.K.Durga is a renowned and much respected Ethnomusicologist, Musicologist
and Performer of Indian Classical Music. Her research thesis for her Degree
of Master of Letters is a Voice Culture for special reference to Carnatic
Music. She has conducted Voice Culture workshops in many places in India
and in USA, UK and Japan. She has trained many professional singers and
is the only voice specialist with scientific background, She is the founder
Director of the Centre for Voxology, which conducts workshops and voice
counselling sessions at its centre in Chennai, India. She was awarded the
Musicologist award by the Music Academy, Chennai in the year of the inception
of the award in 2008. She has been also awarded titles such as Gnana Samudra
and Isai Kalai Selvar. The American Music and Theatre group, Newyork USA
conferred her the title Skylark of India in 1984.
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