“Un-Mute” Your Heart, Your Soul: Your Voice
Week of December 21, 2019
“Un-Mute” Your Heart, Your Soul: Your Voice
A series of about 8 sessions
Many of us were discouraged from telling our stories along the way. Whether it was being dissuaded from taking on that fine arts degree in college, or being told not to “ruin” the music on the radio by singing along at the top of our lungs when we were “tweens.” For the voice inside of you that was quieted against its will, we set the stage for you to “Un-Mute” Your Heart, Your Soul: Your Voice.
The week’s program:
We’ve come up with five ways to make your “un-mute” a blissful and peace-steeped experience:
- Prepare physically and mentally with daily Breathing and Relaxing Exercises.
- Overcome the pressure of yesterday’s results and tomorrow’s expectations with The Art of Warming Up: Being Here, Now, vocally.
- Find the words and sounds that best enable you to tell your story with Repertoire Selection*.
- Craft your story, in sound, with Vocal Style**.
- Tell your story with an End of the Week Vocal Performance!***
*If it sounds fancy, don’t worry: it isn’t! Repertoire Selection is about picking that song that notoriously sets you free … and yes, we mean strongly considering your favorite karaoke, shower, and/or highway cruising jam as a study piece. We offer to brainstorm ideas with you one-on-one, to learn your selection with you, and to help you to better understand and express yourself through that selection.
**Some folks are soft-spoken but wish they were more outgoing; others long to be more intimate, sensitive, dynamic. Any virtue you’d want to assume in your life, we can help you assume vocally with the full belief that if you can conquer it in your voice, you can conquer it in your life.
Un-Muted! Our Hearts…Our Souls…Our Voices…in Concert!
Thursday 8:00pm Oaktree Pavilion
*** Don’t worry!! The performance is not by any means “mandatory,” rather, it’s a special treat and a supportive stage to be able to share your personal findings with your fellow seekers should you choose to do so.
Soprano Sharon Spinetti has maintained a voice and piano studio in Manhattan since 2007. She has over 35 students who regularly perform at the Triad Theater and record at the famed Dubway studios. Her musical theater company “WESST” features original works for kids and young adults. Sharon has composed solo classical works for voice as well as two children’s musicals. She is currently working on another musical theater project to premier in New York in 2020. Her “song-girls” brand was created to empower young girls through their art and passion and she looks forward to the debut of her song-girls cartoon show next year. Please visit the studio at www.song-girls.org
Racquel Borromeo is a graduate of Manhattan School of Music with a piano performance degree. Racquel started formal lessons at age 9 in the Philippines. The Philippine Government accepted her to be a Scholar of the Philippines a few years after. Her piano career has taken her to perform and compete across the United States, Philippines, Japan, Italy, Russia in various recitals and also national/international competitions. Racquel currently resides in New York City where she continues to perform with her piano duo, Duo DiMeo, and her four-piano ensemble, Fourtissimo, and teach music. She has served as a Teaching Artist for various public and private schools to bring a music program into the inner-city schools around New York City and has a full private piano studio of her own. Aside from serving the community through music, she also has her private Reiki practice in Manhattan.