For the last 12 years I have taught over various semi public music and private music schools in Spain: Escuela de Música Creativa, TAI, Maese Pedro, Alcalá de Henares University… teaching indivudual and group vocal tecniche, vocal coaching and audition preparation, musicianship, choral singing and primal singing.
I enjoy a lot this kind of group dinamic and to help people develop the emotional and expressive potential of their voices. For that reason, I work with very differnt human groups, like theatre companies, music students or profesional’s groups (to help reduce stress and develop comunication skills).
For this reason I also run Primal Singing workshops, even if I can also do them about choir singin or vocal technique.
If you are intersted in styding with me, or you want me to organize a workshop for your specific needs, contact me and I will design it according to your needs or those of your group.
Free Improvisation Workshop
This workshop is conceived for both instrument players and singers, as through free improvisation many musical capacities and habilities to work with the group can be developed.
In the process of this workshop, I take into account some essential points:
Invididual and colective creativity
Free Improvisation techniques, in the frame of a contemporary language, as a tool for music awareness and specially for the comprehension of the atonal language
Importance of music and its implications towards individual and colective expresive hability
To achieve this aims, various essential axis will be worked on:
Exploration of the intrument in sound and extended techniquest.
Introduction to the understanding and performance of the basic gestures for conduction of free improvisers (when in a big group)
Phisical exercises, coordination with the group and creative stimula
Group work with the instruments
I have done this workshop at Lisbon Jazz Summer School, in the FERIAS COM JAZZ program (july 2090 and 2010)
Choir workshop
On them we do exercises orientated to stress reduce and to boost the expresive and comunicating skills. With that orientation, I created a choir at Madrid’s Barajas Airport, dedicated to the air controllers.
http://www.adn.es/cultura/20080525/NWS-0471-Controladores-Quisiera-debutan-aereos-crean.html
Primal Singin Workshop
Primal Singuin, or internal Singing, , o canto interno, has it’s origin in an ancestral technique of vocal improvisation. It aim was to heal one’s self or to heal the others. The term was popularized by the gestaltic therapist Carlos Velasco, who took the “primal” term out of Janov’s “Primal Scream”.
We, human being, sing. We are made to sing, as birds are. Everybody can do it. It all depends on our habitily to be relaxed and trust ourselves, so vocal training can be a great opportunity for self exploration and to get back that confidence and relaxation.
Through my contact with Primal Singing in concert and in my teaching I have cheked how it’s a great tool to know your voice in a raw and pure state. Sound comes out through us, in a space in wich we don’t judge it, and that will also lead in the future to vocal technical development, as in this state its easier that we will produce sounds and do movements that where kept unexplored.
Once we are in touch with our own sound, it will be easier to interpretate differnt kinds of music, and at the same time, know ourselves better.
This workshop was held in Allegrospacio (Madrid) for a whole year, as well as in Escuela de Música Creativa de Madrid, in intensive course.
If you watch the following video, note how the singer who is doing the exersises changes in tone and way of singing, becomes much more relaxed and her way to express the emotional content of the song reaches more directly to the audience when she does it again after this practice.
