How do you improve your breath support? Here’s a very powerful tip that I’ve just posted in my Back Magician blog. It will vastly improve your breath support as well as your posture: What happens if you treat your body as a tube?
There are many other applications of treating your body as a tube to effective voice production. I’ll be posting on some of these soon.
I’ve always had a keen interest in singing. Like most Alexander Technique teachers, I’ve also had a knack of helping people use their voice better. In the last four or five years, I’ve been developing that knack.
What really bothered me was my own complete inability to sing. Now that has changed. I’ve been having weekly singing lessons from Colin Iveson since August 2006 and, last summer, I finally got to the stage where I could join the excellent amateur “Una Voce Opera Company”. Hooray!
Here’s my bio from the program for “Chu Chin Chow” — which we performed last December:—
Philip was born in Rome, Italy. He studied Mathematical Physics at the University of Sussex and later trained to become a teacher of the Alexander Technique. He has taught the Alexander Technique in Liverpool since 1981. Despite being unable to sing himself, a keen interest in singing led him to assist the singing classes at the Charterhouse Summer School of Music, 2005 – 2007, where his skill in releasing singers’ voices was highly appreciated. Philip has been learning to sing with Colin Iveson for two years and his remarkable progress led him to join Una Voce this summer. Chu Chin Chow is his first venture into musical or dramatic performance.
(Just in case you’re wondering how I landed a part so early in my singing career, I should mention that my part, Khuzaymah, was only a bit part and involved no solo singing, only the chorus).
Hello, I’m Philip,
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