Lessons 2010

Posted on | January 8, 2010 | No Comments

I will be starting lessons again on February 1st 2010, at Eatons Hill. In February (TBC) I will be moving to Bunya. 

I think I am ready to get back to work. How do I know? I am reading textbooks and getting excited about teaching. I am listening to singers I love and singing myself. I am thinking with JOY about the new year! Breaks from learning and teaching are great. We get the chance to refresh and renew our mind – and bodies – and think about what we have absorbed over the previous year. I find that things I have learnt and thought about and worked on in my body and mind come to be established after quite a lengthy period of time. And I don't think I am a slow learner. Sometimes concepts, or new training patterns, take time to become automatic in both the mind and the body.  I reflect on the value of thoughtful focused practice in those students who have grown vocally over the previous 12 months. Learning to sing is often seen as a short course – 6 weeks to a term. Most students do see instant improvements fairly quickly, but not all, and mastery can take years. I think if you thought you could master the piano in a term you would perhaps be mistaken – and, I humbly suggest, the same is true of learning to sing!

So as I reflect on last year and the new year, I am excited by those students I wave goodbye to as they start a new career or interstate study (special congratulations Emma!) , by existing students who are surely moving toward beauty of expression, competency and mastery of their voices,  and by the new students starting to contact me for the few places I think I may have available. I am excited at the increasing opportunities in Brisbane afforded to learner singers to perform. I am excited by the new music we will discover together this year. And I am excited as a singer myself. What will I sing? What do I want to learn? What do I want to express? I have some projects to work on which excite me and motivate me to press onwards in my singing journey – now standing at 29 years since I first performed on a stage! Happy singing in 2010!

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