To contact Nora York for clinics or lessons,
please email her at:nora@norayork.com

PRIVATE SINGING LESSONS

TECHNIQUE -- TECHNIQUE -- TECHNIQUE

Singing is a personal, sensuous and complex art form. Mined deep inside the body; it is a coordination of breath, body, mind and emotion. Vocal craft is essential to access the full multi- faceted palette. The performer needs to develop the voice as an instrument - for it is our revelatory tool.

I teach a rigorous series of vocal exercises which I have adapted for the popular singer. Lining up the vocal instrument the singer can employ all the possibilities and subtleties unique to their own voice. A genuine voice is not a cobbled together idea of how we think we should sound. When we can rid ourselves of unnecessary habits and faulty ways of producing the voice, we allow the true and honest sound to emerge.

Voice -- like any other instrument -- becomes more compelling when the artist defines their own sound.

I have found that the development of my craft has deeply informed what my “work” has become. I feel that repertoire is only a part of what we must marshal as singers -- we must find and deepen our own true sound -- and then this becomes our authenticity.

Nork York Studies with Maestro David Jones - www.voiceteacher.com

Nora York is available for workshops /clinics and private lessons.

She is a member of the voice faculty at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

To contact Nora York for clinics or lessons,
please email her at:nora@norayork.com

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON NORA YORK PLEASE VISIT www.norayork.com

WORKSHOP : THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER... who?

THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER... who? is a song interpretation clinic for singers and instrumentalists designed to foster unique creative expression through the communication of individual experience and ideas. By listening, discussion, and performance work, the students will develop new skills to expand their comprehension of material and deepen their interpretive proficiency. An individual's personal truth has it’s own ring. This clinic offers the student an expanded understanding of how to find and express their own experience through their art.

History has shown that a sign of a great artist is an ability to give their unique interpretive stamp to whatever music they perform. In most cultures all musicians sing as a way to cultivate and deepen their own disciplines. This clinic gives the students a heightened awareness of a song, the words melody, tempo, and structure. All the elements can be equal contributors employed to fully express ones own experience and spirit.

LEARNING TO THINK UNDER A SONG

1.) rhythm and feel:

How rhythm and feel focus one’s sense of a tune.

2.) color and timbre:

How does one express ideas through the actual sound produced? What are the expressive elements of sound and how does one hone them.

3.) context -- sub text -- concept:

How can the student utilize their own experiences and ideas to navigate the map of a song. How can one find out what to say that is truly our own, searching through multiple ways of how say it? How do we think under a song?

To contact Nora York for clinics or lessons,
please email her at:nora@norayork.com

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON NORA YORK PLEASE VISIT www.norayork.com