Professor Erika Biavati is a singer, singer-songwriter, singing and vocal technique teacher, artistic vocologist and expert in training methods for the whistle register. Erika has taken part in many important singer-songwriter festivals and her work has been highly commended. She has sung many different types of music including Pop, Soul, Rock and Rhythm and Blues, and she sang in recording sessions for a variety of projects. In 2010, Erika won the “Artistic Vocology International Prize” and since then has been a Singing and Extended Vocal Techniques Professor at Alma Mater Studiorum University. She has conducted extensive experimental studies relating to extreme vocals.
She invented and teaches Biavati Training for Whistle Register and she founded the VoiceToTeach® specialization course for voice and singing teachers. She hold workshops and lecture in many congresses like PEVOC, COMET, VOICE FOUNDATION, UEP, etc. As founder and Director of the Live Music School in Bologna (Italy), she uses a multifaceted and inter-methodological approach. In 2019 she was a vocal coach in the T.V. program “Sanremo Young”. In the same year, Erika published the book “MIX & BELTING sounds comparison – The voice in modern singing”. Since 2020 she’s professor at the university courses “vocal technique” and “vocal emissions” at the BSMT (Bernstein School of Musical Theater) in Bologna.
erikabiavati@gmail.com www.erikabiavati.it
Professor Eleonora Bruni is a singer, singing and vocal technique teacher, artistic vocologist, vocal coach for singers and actors, expert in training methods for extreme vocals.
She has been awarded the “Demetrio Stratos – International Prize for Experimental Music 1996” and the “Artistic Vocology International Prize 2009”.
She sang in many productions of rock, jazz, musical theatre, experimental music. She is the leading voice of Iato Orchestra (radical improvisers ensemble conducted by Alvin Curran). Eleonora Bruni is a Singing and Extended Vocal Techniques Professor at Alma Mater Studiorum University. Within the academic environment she has conducted extensive experimental studies related to the extreme vocals and extended vocal techniques field.
She conceived and teaches the Bruni Training® for Extended Voices.
She founded the VoiceToTeach, Specialization Course for voice and singing teachers. Her multifaceted and inter-methodological approach allows her to teach and train many well-known singers (in pop, rock, metal, musical theatre, contemporary classical music), and many well-known cinema and theatre actors and dubbers.
elebruni@icloud.com www.associazionevoices.it
Declan Davies is a songwriting tutor at Leeds college of music. Since completing his masters in composition, Declan has gone on to deliver Songwriting and choral workshops both nationally and internationally he has worked with writers such as Paul Statham (Dido, Simple minds and Matt Cardle) and Tom Mcrae and Nick Banks (Human League) for upcoming releases in 2020. In Addition to this Declan works closely with choral Director Craig lees accompanying and arranging for ‚The Leeds Contemporary singers‘ (winners of BBC’s pitch battle series) and Leeds College of Music’s Contemporary choir. He musically accompanies in the workshop with Craig Lees.
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Quality Manager for DIN ISO 9001/2015
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Quality Manger International DIN ISO 13485
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Educational qualifications for teachers
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K-Taping Instructor
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QChi Line Instructor
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12 energies Instructor
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Meridian Screening Instructor
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Teacher for Sales Training
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Auditor DIN ISO
Dr. Susanne Fleischer ist Fachärztin für HNO-Heilkunde und für Phoniatrie & Pädaudiologie. Facharztausbildung an den Universitätskliniken Düsseldorf und Mainz, 1999 bis 2014 Oberärztin am Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf. Frühzeitige Spezialisierung auf die Diagnostik und Therapie von Stimmstörungen, insbesondere auf die videoendoskopische Diagnostik und Analyse von Stimmlippenveränderungen. Durchführung mehrerer Forschungsprojekte zur Stimmlippenschwingungsanalyse und zu Stimmstörungen. Autorin von Fachartikeln, u.a. zum Spezialthema „Kehlkopf für Nicht-Laryngologen“. Autorin eines 100seitigen Manuals zur Endoskopietechnik. Entwicklung einer besonderen endoskopischen Technik in der Schluckdiagnostik (High-Sensitivity FEES). Zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Markus Hess und Dipl.-Ing. Frank Müller Mitbegründerin des MEDICAL VOICE CENTER,
Prof. Eleanor Forbes studierte zunächst Germanistik in Aberdeen und Zürich, anschließend klassischen Gesang am Royal College of Music in London. Zahlreiche Auftritte als Opern- und Konzertsängerin mit einem breitgefächerten Repertoire gehören zu ihrer Bühnenerfahrung. Seit 35 Jahren unterrichtet sie meist genreübergreifend, und viele ihrer SchülerInnen haben erfolgreiche Karrieren entwickelt. Sie ist Mitglied im Bundesverband Deutscher Gesangspädagogen (BDG) und gehörte 2014-18 zum Vorstand. 2020 wurde sie in den Vorstand von EVTA (European Voice Teachers Association) gewählt. Als freischaffende Gesangspädagogin unterrichtet sie sowohl im privaten Studio in Berlin als auch im Jazz-Institut Berlin, wo sie seit 1996 tätig ist und 2010 zur Honorarprofessorin bestellt wurde. 2007-2019 war sie Lehrbeauftragte an der HfM Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, 2011-16 auch an der Joop van den Ende Academy in Hamburg. Seit 2009 ist sie akkreditierte Lehrerin (EMT) von Estill Voice Training. Als gefragte Referentin gibt sie Vorträge, Workshops und Lehrdemonstrationen im In- und Ausland und setzt sich für die stetige Fortbildung von KollegInnen ein.

Franco Fussi Otolaryngologist and Phoniatrician.
Past Head of the Audiological and Phoniatric Center of the Local Health Authority of Ravenna.
Scientific coordinator of the two Advanced Training Courses in Artistic Vocology and Clinic Vocology of the University of Bologna, based in Ravenna.
Lecturer at the Degree Course in Speech Therapy of the University of Bologna, based in Ravenna.
Collaborator at the Teatro Comunale of Bologna, the Accademia d’Arte Lirica of Osimo, the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro, the Ravenna Festival, the Maggio Fiorentino Foundation in Firenze
Member of the Collegium Medicorum Theatri
Honorary President of the Voice Symposium at Salzburg
He has held Seminars on Artistic Voice at numerous Specialization Courses in Opera singing. Curator of the „Mysteries of the Voice“ column for the magazine L’Opera, he has published numerous articles on the physiopathology of the voice sung in scientific and musical magazines and is the author of texts including „La parola e il canto“ (Ed. Piccin Padova) , „Dizionario di Linguistica“ (Ed. Einaudi), „The vocal art“, „The voices of Puccini“, „The speech therapist score“ and „The voice of the singer“ (vol. I, II, III, IV, V , VI, VII, VIII, IX and X) (Ed. Omega), “Listen to the voice” (FrancoAngeli Editore), “The logopedic treatment of dysphonies” (Ed. Omega), “Clinica della Voce” (Cortina Editor Library) , „The words of the stage“ (Ed. Omega), The Voice in the Musical Theatre (Volontè editor), Ready with the voice? (SolosMedia Ed.)