In 1994, NATS and dozens of other voice teacher associations entered into a Joint Venture Agreement to facilitate (by providing marketing services and managing funds) a world-wide gathering of voice teachers for master classes and sessions, very similar to the NATS national conferences, but international in scope. Every four years, ICVT is held in one of the member countries. In 2005, ICVT 6 was held in Vancouver, British Columbia.

2009 : ICVT7

July 15-19, Paris, France, Folies Bergère

Singing Past and Present: Innovation and Tradition

For more information please visit the Congress website at www.icvt2009.com

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THANK YOU FROM THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

ICVT7 Papers and Presentations(All documents submitted by speakers and presenters are posted here in program order)

WEDNESDAY

Dr. Susana Zapke - The Archeology of Singing

Richard Cross - Three solutions to singing high notes

Agnes Mellon - Baroque Singing

Paolo Zedda/Marybel Dessagnes - Hommage a Nicola Vaccai

Opening Night Concert Program

THURSDAY

Melanie Jackson - Singing and Qi Gong

Dr. Nathalie Henrich - Between Vibrations and Resonances

Lukas Haselboeck - French and Austrian Vocal Music 1890-1914

Marianne Liljas - David Bjoerling

Jeannie Darnell - Boys to Men

Dr. Duane Karna - Choral Acoustics

FRIDAY

Francoise Semellaz - Survival Kit for the Travelling Singer

Dr. Bernhard Richter/Dr. Matthias Echternach - Real Time MRI

Janice Chapman - Breathing and Support: The Use of the Accent Method

Dominique Desmons - The French Chanson

Kathleen Roland Silverstein - The Swedish Opera: Marie Antoinette...

Dr. Peter Ling - The Fach System

Roundtable: Making a Career in Opera: Susan Kane, Jill Segal , Therese Renick , Peter Ling

SATURDAY

Nadia Vadori - Being Present in the Here and Now

Dr. Gerard Chevallier - The Saturated Voice of Rock Singers

Anna Gotti - How to Sing Standards with a Jazz Feel

Suzanne Draayer -Lets Sing Spanish Art Song!

Cecilia Montemayor - Art Song of Mexico

Dr. Mei Zhong - Chinese Art Song

Maria Beltran - Piaf Resonance

SUNDAY

Donald Dumpson - Gospel for Everyone

Dr. Karin Knoll - Training for Top Performance in Elite Sport

Jean Nirouet - Early French Diction as Established at the Beginning of the Recording Process

Martha Herr - 20th Century Brazilian Song

Tran Quang Hai - Voices of the World

POSTER SESSIONS

THURSDAY

Teja Saksida - Vinko Globokar

Lisa Popiel - Ingredients of American Vocal Styles and handout

Jane Kristen Hagness - 20th and 21st Century Works for Soprano and Marimba

Tammie Huntington - Jody Nagel's Opera Fifty-Third Street

Patrice Michaels - Divas of Mozart's Day

Judy Bellingham - Songs of Love and the Land

Kevin Hanrahan - Effect of Auditory Feedback in Singing

Heather Hunnicut - Stage Fright and Singers and handout

Berislov Jerkovic - Human Voice and Psycho-physical Training

Olugbemi Matthew Adesanjo - Preparation for Performance Psychophysiospiritual Analysis

Wladimir Mattos - Brazilian Portugese- Norms for Lyric Diction

Minoru Yamada - The Essential Practice for Consonant

Morten Sadolin - Power and Safety in Voice Production - Acoustic Control

FRIDAY

Scott Harrison - Sing For Life

Sally Collyer - Bringing Breathing Science into the Voice Studio and handout

Sally Collyer/diana Kenny/Michaele Archer - Does How You Breath Really Change How You Sound

Marie-Therese Boiton-Rivoli - The Freedom of Voice

Martha Sheil - The Legacy Lives On

Kevin Hanrahan - The Global Masterclass

Kathy Woodley - Vocal Mentoring

Daniel Robinson - Singing for Contemporary Christian Worship and handout

Flora Edwards - Must the Singing Voice in Age Be Silent

Diane Hughes - The Vocal Journal

Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk - Do They Really Get It? Using Kolb LSI

Susan Yarnall/Susan Monks - The Role of Vocal Identity

SATURDAY

Tracy Bourne/Maeva Garnier - Laryngeal Mechanism and Vocal Tract Resonance in Music Theatre Voice and abstract

Franciose Vanhecke -

Cathy Aggett - Strategies for Baritones in Singing Australian Art Song and handout

Jana Holtzmeier - Grit and Grazioso: the Songs of Vincent Persichetti and handout

Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk - Causes and Treatments of Perfomrance Anxiety in Singers

Kevin Hanrahan - Second Formant Relationship to Adduction

Katherine Wells - Three Levels of Song

Patircia Caicedo - Discovering Latin-American Soul Through Song and Poetry

Mihaela Buhaiciuc - Elements of Style in enescu's Sept chansons de Clement Marot

Teresa Radomski - Recovering the Salon Operas of Manuel del Populo Vincente Garcia

Jessica McCormack - The Influence of National Styles on Pauline Viardot

Anne Harley - Russian Female Aristocratic Composers

Catalina Ionela Chelaru - Le Complexe d'inferiorite dans l'art