Intermezzo Session #1

with Dr. Katy Clark

Session Description:

Your student approaches you with the news that “I have to sing something!” What do you do? This session is designed to provide teachers with tools to get their students singing (and maybe a few tools to try for themselves). We’ll discuss strategies to develop pitch-matching skills, healthy vocal tone production, range exploration and expansion, and tools for expression, to build the confidence of even the timidest singers.

Presenter Bio:

Soprano Katy Clark is known for her versatility as a singer, lecturer, and teacher of a variety of musical styles. She holds a DMA in Voice Performance from the University of Toronto, and teaches in the Musical Theatre Department at St. Clair College. She placed second overall, and won the prize for the Best Performance of the Commissioned Work, at the Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition. She has won the Jim and Charlotte Norcop Prize in Song and the Sheila and Marla Zack Opera Competition, and has won prizes in the Harold Haugh Light Opera Competition and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Katy was a recipient of the 2017-2018 Rebanks Family Fellowship, and has performed as a soloist with the Amici Chamber Ensemble, Michigan Opera Theatre, Shoestring Opera, the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. She appears as a soloist on A Woman’s Voice, an album featuring the music of Alice Ping Yee Ho. She operates a private voice studio in London, and has taught Vocal Techniques and Voice Pedagogy at Wilfrid Laurier University and McMaster University. She is thrilled to be back for another season with the Elora Singers!