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SUMMARY:2017 NATS Winter Workshop - NATS Winter Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Sing the Body Electric: Wellness for Performers and Teachers\
 nMarriott Mission Valley - San Diego, CA\n\nWorkshop Schedule  l   Pr
 esenters  \n\nAlthough the 2017 Winter Workshop has concluded, we've c
 aptured the entire event on video. \n\nEach session has been recorded a
 nd is available for purchase.\n\n-- DVD/CD Order Form --\n\nClick here 
 to purchase the 2017 NATS Winter workshop recordings on CD and DVD.\n\n-
 - Follow-up Resources from the Presenters --\n\nAlexander Technique - bi
 bliography: James Brody\n\nBody Mapping - resources: Bonnie Draina\n\nBo
 dy Mapping - handout: Bonnie Draina\n\nFive Tasks of Constructive Rest: 
 James Brody\n\nWhole Notes - Holistic Options for the Singer’s Health
  and Wellbeing: Dr. Joseph M. DeStefano\n\nYogaVoice® Presentation: M
 ark Moliterno\n\nA round of applause goes to presenters Jim Brody and Bo
 nnie Draina, Lynn Helding, Mark Moliterno, Janelle DeStefano, Jennie Mor
 ton and Joe DeStefano. Attendance was nearly double the average particip
 ation over recent years. "It was a vibrant workshop with a great deal of
  positive feedback and commitment from participants to incorporate what 
 they learned into their studios," said NATS VP for Workshops Kristine Hu
 rst-Wajszczuk.\n\n \n\n------------------------------------------------
 ------------------------\n\nJoin NATS for a workshop at the beautiful Ma
 rriott Mission Valley in San Diego; this NATS Winter Workshop offers ses
 sions to help both performers and their teachers find greater freedom in
  their bodies. Exploring various modalities, including the Alexander Tec
 hnique, Body Mapping and Yoga for Singers, our expert clinicians bring d
 ecades of experience in helping musicians find greater physical awarenes
 s and freedom.\nA primer on the Alexander Technique, followed by master 
 class sessions to apply the technique in one’s singing and teaching le
 ad us to greater body awareness. In-depth sessions on Body Mapping help 
 participants to produce efficient, coordinated, effective movement. Body
  Mapping, over time, with application, allows any musician to sing or pl
 ay like a natural. It is a tool that is useful in many different setti n
 gs from music studios to exercise studios and to all of the somatic disc
 iplines. YogaVoice® explores the eight fold path of Classical Yoga and 
 its application to the lives and work of performing artists, voice profe
 ssionals, and people who are interested in improving their communication
  skills and connecting to their innate creativity.\n\n \n\nYogaVoice® 
 is an organic way of working with an individual to bring balance and int
 egrity to both the physical instrument and the creative Self, and can co
 mplement any vocal method. W e complement our focus on the performer’s
  body by addressing neurological issues of both singing and teaching.\n\
 n \n\nKristine Hurst-Wajszczuk, Vice President for Workshops\n\nJanelle
  DeStefano, Local Co-coordinator\n\nLaurinda Nikkel, Local Co-coordinato
 r\n\n--   --\n\n-- NATS Featured Presenters --\n\n-- James Brody --\n\n
 James Brody’s oboe playing has been praised by the New York Times for 
 its “wonderfully euphonious spirit.” While a member of the Camerata 
 Woodwind Quintet, he performed concerts in Carnegie Recital Hall and in 
 the Far East. Brody’s major teachers include John Mack, Jerry Sirucek,
  and William Baker. He also studied the Baroque oboe with Grant Moore an
 d James Caldwell and chamber music with Marcel Moyse.\n\nBrody has studi
 ed the Alexander Technique with Marjorie Barstow and Barbara Conable (am
 ong others), was teacher certified at The Alexander Foundation, and has 
 created the Wellness Program for Musicians at the University of Colorado
  at Boulder, a comprehensive approach to the well-being of music student
 s. He has taught the Technique throughout the U.S. and Europe and hosts 
 an annual Summer Course on the CU-Boulder campus.\n\nBrody is the co-aut
 hor of the textbook Rock and Roll: an introduction published by Schirm
 er. His degrees are from Indiana University and The Ohio State Universit
 y.\n\n-- Janelle DeStefano, DMA --\n\nA passionate teacher and performer
 , mezzo-soprano Janelle DeStefano is Associate Professor of Voice at S
 anta Monica College, where she serves as coordinator of vocal activities
 .  Prior to joining the full-time faculty at SMC, she taught voice for 
 over two decades at collegiate and community music schools including the
  USC Thornton School of Music, UC Santa Cruz, and the University of San 
 Diego, as well as in her own private studio.  She holds a Doctorate in 
 Musical Arts (DMA), with honors, from USC, a Master of Music in Voice Pe
 rformance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College; and a Bachelor of
  Arts in Music, with honors, from UC Santa Cruz.  As an undergraduate, 
 she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and in 2010, was inducted into Pi Kap
 pa Lambda National Music Honor Society.  An active NATS member, she was
  a recipient of the NATS Emerging Leaders Award, and in 2006, was select
 ed to participate in the prestigious NATS Intern Program.\n\nAs a perfor
 ming artist, Janelle enjoys the entire gamut of classical singing, from 
 opera and oratorio to recital and chamber music.  She has been praised 
 for her “passionate delivery” and “rich seamless voice,” and has
  been featured with the Los Angeles Philharmonic; the Los Angeles Chambe
 r Orchestra; San Diego Opera, the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus, El Mundo
 ; Bach Collegium San Diego; and the Los Angeles Master Chorale.\n\nA lon
 g-time practitioner of Yang Style Taiji, Janelle began the study of the 
 Chen Man Ching style to support her health and wellbeing while a student
  of voice in Princeton, New Jersey.  As she discovered the benefits of 
 Taiji and Qi Gong, she experimented with applying them to her vocal prac
 tice.  Returning to her native California, she continued studies with R
 obert Nations, L.Ac. (Yang Style) and Bill Helm, T.S. (Yang & Chen Style
 s), and taught the form for a time at California Health Spa in San Diego
 .  She continues to incorporate qi gong and meditation practices into h
 er personal health regimen, and includes both breathing and postural exe
 rcises in her private vocal studio.\n\n-- Joseph DeStefano II, D.Ac., L.
 Ac., Dipl. Ac. (NCCAOM)® --\n\nWith a private practice in Los Angeles, 
 Dr. Joe DeStefano’s passion for the East Asian healing arts grew out 
 of a lifetime of martial arts training.  With over 40 years’ experien
 ce in the martial arts, he holds senior black belt ranks in judo, aiki
 do, and karate, and has studied several styles of Chinese qi gong and
  taiji, including the Tao Tan Pai (“Taoist Elixir”) system, as we
 ll as the Chen and Yang styles of Taiji.\n\nA California Licensed Acupu
 ncturist and Herbalist, Joe is board certified in acupuncture, holding D
 iplomate status from the National Certification Commission of Acupunctur
 e and Oriental Medicine, and is licensed as a Doctor of Acupuncture by t
 he Health Department of the State of Rhode Island.  He earned a Bachelo
 r of Health Science in Asian Holistic Health, cum laude, from Pacific C
 ollege of Oriental Medicine in San Diego, and a Master of Traditional Or
 iental Medicine, magna cum laude, from Emperor’s College in Santa Mo
 nica.  In 2008, he traveled to China where he participated in an intern
 ational training program at Yue Yang Integrative Medicine Hospital in Sh
 anghai.  Joe completed externship training in integrative medicine at P
 rovidence-St. Joseph’s Medical Center (Burbank, CA) and the Simms/Man
 n Health and Wellness Center at the Venice Family Clinic (Venice, CA). 
 His clinical training includes extensive experience in treatment of ort
 hopedic disorders and pain management, as well as the treatment of behav
 ioral health issues including anxiety, depression, PTSD, and addictions.
    \n\nJoe is also an alumnus of Loyola Marymount University, where h
 e earned his B.A. while attending LMU on a voice scholarship. He was a m
 ember of the critically acclaimed LMU Choruses under the late Maestro Pa
 ul Salamunovich, and was a founding member of the LMU Opera Workshop. �
 �A professional singer and voice-over artist for many years, Joe has a s
 trong personal interest in the health of the active performing artist, a
 nd continues to perform regularly with the Los Robles Master Chorale ba
 sed in Ventura County.\n\n-- Lynn Helding --\n\nLynn Helding recently jo
 ined the University Of Southern California Thornton School Of Music as A
 ssociate Professor of Practice in Vocal Pedagogy. She is an associate ed
 itor of the Journal of Singing and author of the journal’s “Mindfu
 l Voice” column, which illuminates current research in the cognitive, 
 neuro- and social sciences as they relate to music teaching, learning an
 d performance. Ms. Helding is a thought-leader within the dynamic field 
 of contemporary voice science, or vocology and was elected to head the
  founding of the first Vocology association, PAVA, incorporated in 2014
  as a 501(c)(6) non-profit association. She was the 2005 recipient of th
 e National Van Lawrence Fellowship, jointly awarded by the NATS Foundat
 ion and the Voice Foundation to those who have “demonstrated excellenc
 e in their profession as singing teachers, and have shown knowledge of v
 oice science.”\n\nHelding’s stage credits include the title role in 
 the first American production of Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo, and leading mez
 zo-soprano roles with Harrisburg Opera, Nashville Opera, Tennessee Opera
  Theatre, and Ohio Light Opera. A deep commitment to art song led her to
  create such projects as Made in America, a narrative song recital of w
 orks by eighteen American composers which toured Italy, France, England,
  Germany, Spain and Australia and Iceland, and the theatrical performanc
 e piece This is My Letter to the World, a song recital which she assemb
 led using spoken fragments of Emily Dickson’s letters interspersed wit
 h Dickinson songs by composers Aaron Copland, Jake Heggie, William Bolco
 lm and Lori Laitman, which premiered at the Brook Center for Music in Ne
 w York City. Her highlights in chamber music include the title role in S
 choenberg’s Perrot Lunaire, broadcast on Nashville Public Television,
  and Good Night, written for Lynn Helding and the Baltic Philharmonic C
 hamber Orchestra by Icelandic composer Thorkell Sigurbjornnson, which pr
 emiered at Miller Theatre’s “New Works” series in New York.\n\nHel
 ding studied voice at the University of Montana, in Vienna, Austria, and
  at Indiana University, where she was the first singer ever accepted to 
 pursue the prestigious Artist Diploma in Voice. She earned her master’
 s degree in vocal pedagogy from Westminster Choir College of Rider Unive
 rsity, and completed theSummer Vocology Institute of the National Cent
 er for Voice and Speech in Salt Lake City. Her voice teachers have incl
 uded Esther England, Dale Moore, and Chris Arneson, and voice science me
 ntors Scott McCoy, Ingo Titze and Katherine Verdolini-Abbott. Previous t
 o USC, she taught voice at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Mus
 ic, and served twenty-two years as Associate Professor of Voice and Dire
 ctor of Performance Studies at Dickinson College.\n\n-- Bonnie Draina --
 \n\nBonnie Draina has been teaching Body Mapping to musicians and athlet
 es since 2002, presenting courses and workshops across North America fro
 m Hawaii to Newfoundland, for colleges, universities and professional gr
 oups. Her clear understanding of the challenges facing performing artist
 s, comprehensive knowledge of human anatomy and engaging presence combin
 e to make her a popular and effective presenter. As a studio voice teach
 er for 20 years, she has taught at schools such as Drew University and P
 rinceton Theological Seminary. Most recently at the University of Colora
 do-Boulder, she taught studio voice and vocal pedagogy, and played a key
  role in the expansion of the Musicians' Wellness Initiative. Dr. Draina
  holds MM and DMA degrees in voice performance and pedagogy from Westmin
 ster Choir College and University of Colorado - Boulder. She is the 2013
  recipient of the Van Lawrence Fellowship, which allowed her to further 
 her study of muscle tension dysphonia and other voice disorders.\n\nA cl
 assically-trained soprano with eclectic tastes, Dr. Draina has premiered
  and previewed works by composers such as Lee Hoiby, John B. Hedges, Car
 ter Pann, Sayaka Ishikawa and Laurie Altman, and has a repertoire of sev
 eral hundred songs, chamber works and operatic and oratorio roles in nin
 e languages. Dr. Draina has worked in the arts in various capacities, in
 cluding development for the New York Philharmonic, costuming at the Buck
 s County Playhouse, and opera direction with Rocky Mountain Center for M
 usical Arts. Over the years, she has played instruments ranging from pia
 no to sousaphone with marching, jazz and rock bands. In 2014 Mountain Pe
 ak Press published Notes of Hope, for which she contributed the chapter 
 titled "Rethinking Recovery." Her Breathing Book for Singers will be rel
 eased by Mountain Peak Press in 2017.\n\nBonnie is an avid gardener and 
 proponent of food fermentation, a craft she studied while living at a su
 stainability education center in Costa Rica. She resides in Nashville wi
 th her husband and young son.\n\n-- Jennie Morton, BSc (Hons) Osteopathy
 , MS Psychology --\n\nJennie Morton began her career as a classical Ball
 et dancer before moving into musical theatre, performing on tour and in 
 the West End for many years. She was also the lead singer of a top UK Bi
 g Band for 10 years. She subsequently trained as an Osteopath specializi
 ng in the treatment of all performing artists, and worked at The British
  Association for Performing Arts Medicine Clinic in London (UK) for 10 y
 ears. Her treatments are focused on injury prevention, rehabilitation, a
 nd integration into performance, and she is a specialist in laryngeal ma
 nual therapy for vocalists. Now living in Los Angeles, she runs clinics 
 for performing artists at two locations, and also offers performance coa
 ching for singers, actors, instrumentalists, and dancers. She is an adju
 nct professor at Chapman University, where she works with both the dance
  and music students, and is on the Board of Directors for the Performing
  Arts Medicine Association (PAMA), an international organization dedicat
 ed to the health and wellbeing of performing artists.\n\nJennie is dedic
 ated to the provision of education on the subject of healthy practice in
  the performing arts, and provides lectures and workshops internationall
 y for performers, teachers, and medical professionals on the subject of 
 injury prevention and management. She is an Honorary Lecturer for the MS
 c in Performing Arts Medicine at University College London, for which sh
 e compiled the Musculoskeletal and Neuromuscular Injury module, and is o
 n the Health and Wellness Committee for the International Society for Mu
 sic Education. Published articles include “Voice and Dance Technique I
 ntegration for Musical Theatre - Triple Threat or Double Trouble?” for
  the VASTA Voice and Speech Review Journal, “Osteopathy In The Arts”
  for The Osteopath journal, “The Hazards of the Musical Theatre Workpl
 ace” and “The Integration of Voice and Dance Techniques in Musical T
 heatre” for Medical Problems of Performing Artists, “Osteopathy For 
 Singers” for iSing Magazine, as well as several others on injury manag
 ement for dancers and musicians. Jennie is the founder of www.healthyper
 formers.com, and her book The Authentic Performer: Wearing A Mask And Th
 e Effect On Health was published in May 2015.\n\n-- Mark Moliterno, MM, 
 RYT-500, CYT, Founder of YogaVoice® --\n\nMark Moliterno is an accompli
 shed professional opera singer, voice teacher, yoga teacher, IAYT-certif
 ied Yoga Therapist, workshop leader, and author and is known as a specia
 list in helping people understand and overcome physical and energetic bl
 ockages to their authentic voices. His extensive performing career has t
 aken him to many countries in a variety of leading operatic roles and as
  a concert soloist and recitalist. Mark is the founder of YogaVoice®, a
  unique program which combines several traditions of Yoga philosophy and
  practice with historical Systematic Vocal Technique, to develop authent
 icity and wellness in the art of singing. He presents YogaVoice® worksh
 ops at professional conferences and gatherings internationally. Mark has
  published articles in YogaLiving Magazine, The Journal of Singing, The 
 AAM Journal, is a co-author of The Musician’s Breath, and is the autho
 r and featured instructor of The Musician’s Breath Yoga DVD. His work,
  especially related to overcoming performance anxiety, was featured in a
 n article in the May 2014 Yoga Journal magazine, entitled, “How to be 
 fearless”. Mark is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Voice at Westmins
 ter Choir College of Rider University and maintains active private voice
  and yoga therapy studios in Princeton, NJ and Harleysville, PA. Please 
 visit his website: www.theyogavoice.com.\n\nMark Moliterno holds the BM 
 and MM degrees in Voice and Opera from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music
  where his mentor was the famous vocal pedagogue, Richard Miller. He sub
 sequently continued his formal musical studies at Rutgers University, th
 e University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the Britten-Pears School f
 or Advanced Musical Study in Aldeburgh, England, and the Hochschüle fü
 r Musik, Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Mark currently maintains his si
 nging activity as a performer in the recital and concert repertoires. Kn
 own for his compelling and artistic recital singing, he is heard regular
 ly in the New York/Philadelphia area.\n\n--   --\n
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