Browse Breakout Sessions > Monday, July 6
posted on 5:05 PM, March 11, 2026
- From Fight-or-Flight to Flow: A Polyvagal Lens on Singing and Teaching to Enhance Learning Through Nervous System Regulation. Presented by Cecilia Duarte, Kimberly Monzón, and Sooah Park
- You Can Improvise! A Practical Guide to Multi-Genre Vocal Improvisation. Presented by Tish Oney and Patrice Pastore
- A Century of Lithuanian Art Songs. Presented by San-ky Kim
- Congratulations or Condolences? Pursuing a Career in Arts Administration. Presented by Jason Lester
- The Feedback Loop: Tuning Vocal Pedagogy with Peer Review. Presented by Chadley Ballantyne, Allen Henderson, John Nix, Nicholas Perna, and Yvonne Gonzales Redman
- Diversifying the Art Song Canon: Latin American Composers Everyone Should Know. Presented by Jessica Posada and Kayla Liechty
- A Conversation with the American Academy of Teachers of Singing (AATS). Presented by Donald Simonson, Chair and gathered members of the Academy
- Techniques and Tools for Promoting Consent-Based Culture in the Classroom and Performance. Presented by Grace Edgar
- Picking the Perfect Pop Song: Contemporary Repertoire for the Musical Theater Audition Room. Presented by Noel Smith
- I Hunger Yet I Shall Be Fed: Autonomy and Awe in Selected Solo Vocal Literature of Florence Price. Presented by Lisa Williamson and Khyle B. Wooten
- Recital Glow-Ups: Bridging Tradition and Transformation. Presented by Casey Joiner-Isaacs and Will Perkins
- JOS Forum: A Guide to Academic Publishing. Presented by Matthew Hoch, Brian Manternach, John Nix, and Elvia Puccinelli
- Singing as Ourselves: Dialogue and Strategies for Reimagining Identity in Musical Selection. Presented by Paul Patinka and Zipporah Peddle
- Testing… One, Two, Three: How Three Colleges are Rethinking Voice Training for the Contemporary Artist. Presented by Warren Freeman and Marita Stryker
- Resounding Voices: Women Composers featured in the November 1918 Women’s Edition of The Etude. Presented by Sarah VandenBrink and Christina Giuca Krause
- Who’s Qualified to Teach? A Historical Examination of Professional Efforts to Certify and License Singing Teachers. Presented by Amelia Rollings Bigler and Edward Reisert
- Hormonal Seasons and the Singing Voice: Expanding the Conversation. Presented by Joanne Bozeman, Nancy Bos, and David Sabella
- Modern Mythologies: Contemporary Art Songs by Danaë Xanthe Vlasse and Sarah Hutchings. Presented by Mitchell Hutchings and Donna Loewy

