This Embodied Voice Suzanne Lis
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This Embodied Voice is a podcast hosted by Suzanne Lis, who created the show out of her fascination with the connection between voice and body, especially in singers. Everyone experiences the world through their bodies, but for singers, their instrument IS their body. They are particularly attuned to their physical experience, and so on this podcast, we have honest, intimate conversations about vocal technique and injury, hormonal change, performance anxiety, bodywork and movement, trauma, and much more. By promoting open discussion, we hope to move away from fear and judgement and towards a culture of openness and mutual support.
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Katrina Galka, Soprano and Life Coach
In 2018, Kat's career was going well - she was singing in Vienna, she had gigs booked in the future, but she couldn't shake a feeling of wanting MORE, of wanting to go deeper. Fast forward to 2021, and Kat is now a business and life coach...and still a soprano! On her social media, she shares her process and picks apart common phrases that singers hear, not only from their teachers and colleagues, but from themselves. We talk about what thoughts serve us (and what thoughts don't), how she sta...
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Seth Carico, bass-baritone: "Si può?", Seth Learn Dad, and Sobriety
In this episode, I speak with Seth Carico, bass-baritone, on the day before his role debut as Tonio in Pagliacci. Seth first saw Pagliacci when he was 17, and says that as soon as the prologue aria ended and the curtain flew up, he was "hooked." Since then, Seth has sung both standard and new roles and has embraced his identity, both on- and off-stage, as a "weird as hell," singular artist. We also spoke about his preparation for fatherhood, which he chronicled in a web series called SETH LEA...
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Alice Chung, mezzo-soprano and Wear Yellow Proudly co-founder
Alice Chung is a mezzo-soprano and co-founder of Wear Yellow Proudly, an initiative started in 2020 in response to increasing xenophobia and violence against Asians during the COVID-19 pandemic. WYP spreads awareness about Asian culture through art, music, and education. Alice speaks about her Korean-American upbringing, how she started singing, and why she chose not to sing when the pandemic first hit.Visit wearyellowproudly.org for more information.First verse of "The Swing":The new light b...
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Lucy Fitz Gibbon: New Music, Nature, and Schubert
Lucy Fitz Gibbon wears many hats: she's a soprano whose repertoire spans from the Renaissance to the present day, she teaches at Cornell and Bard, and she has been known to dig around in libraries for a manuscript or two 🤓Naturally then, the reach of this conversation is far and wide, from Lucy's musical upbringing playing violin and watching operas, to her grounding Feldeinsamkeit walks at Marlboro Music Festival. She also gushes over Schubert's long-form songs for 10+ minutes...and that's A...
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Joanne Hayes Bozeman: Menopause and Singing Through Change
In this episode, I speak with Joanne Hayes Bozeman, soprano and co-author of the book Singing Through Change: Women's Voices in Midlife, Menopause, and Beyond. Joanne began experiencing troubling vocal changes around the age of 47, when "it felt like someone had put a different larynx in [her] neck." We speak about how this personal experience spurred her to do her research, write an anonymous article, connect with her co-authors, and how they went about the process of collecting and organizi...
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Jeni Houser, Soprano
In this episode, I talk with soprano Jeni Houser about her morning routine of bodywork, meditation, and practicing, why vinyasa yoga was not the best choice for her, and why she's thinking about openness these days. Also FOOD. You can follow Jeni's career over at jenihouser.com or see what she's up to @songsofjeni ! The blog posts we discuss are at https://www.singingbodyclinic.com/blogFollow us @thisembodiedvoice to hear about new episodes and tell us who you want to hear next on the po...