Preview
Where voice work begins
The first lesson begins with listening: speech, a comfortable note, a vowel change and a short musical phrase.
- Speak a short sentence in a normal voice.
- Sing a comfortable note without making it louder.
- Sing a short phrase and identify where the action changes.
Experience with individual voices and choirs
Peter Patz has taught more than 100 students, built choirs, prepared them for performance and conducted major choral events. He hears the individual voice and understands how it will function inside a choir part.
Reasons to book a lesson
- the voice tires quickly in rehearsal
- the upper range becomes pressed
- register changes are unstable
- text breaks the musical line
- a conductor needs a safer demonstration voice
Individual lesson
Peter listens to the voice, selects a working sequence and tests it on the music the student is singing.
Group and choir work
A choir lesson connects vowel, onset, diction, tuning and balance with the current score. The warm-up prepares the repertoire instead of occupying a separate part of the rehearsal.
Before the first lesson
Send the title of the work, the choir voicing or voice type, a short recording and a description of the passage that does not work.