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Daily Schedule

Wednesday, October 6th

Time Topic Location
7:00 pm Open House at the National Center for Voice and Speech. NCVS
7:30 pm Voice Recital Mary Enid Haines, soprano, and J.R. Fralick, tenor; music of English composers.
Ms. Haines is on the voice faculty at the University of Ottawa
Mr. Fralick is on the voice faculty at Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory in Cleveland, Ohio.
Both are graduates of the NCVS Summer Vocology Institute.
NCVS
8:15 pm Refreshments - Biscotti, coffee, tea, sparkling water NCVS
* ETI-CR = Executive Tower Inn Conference Room; NCVS = NCVS Tramway Facility Classroom

Thursday, October 7th
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Time Topic Location
8:00 am Gathering, Refreshments, Registration ETI-CR
9:00 am Titze - Opening address
Titze - Nonlinear Source-Filter Interaction in Singing
ETI-CR
9:40 am Miller/Schutte/Ritzerfeld - The role of the laryngeal collar in vocal tract acoustics ETI-CR
10:10 am Michael - Correlations Between Measures of Cepstral Peak Prominence, LTAS and perceptual ratings of Singing Voice Quality ETI-CR
10:40 am BREAK ETI-CR
11:00 am Hunter - Overlap of hearing and voicing ranges in singing and a comparison of the VRP and the perceived VRP ETI-CR
11:30 am Radhakrishnan - Acoustic, Aerodynamic, and Kinematic Description of “Taan” Gestures in Indian Classical Singing ETI-CR
12:00 pm DISCUSSION/LUNCH - Discussion moderated by Sundberg ETI-CR
12:30 pm LUNCH on your own  
2:00 pm Schutte - Postural Changes in the Throat: an Attempt to Correlate Visual and Acoustical Cues of Voice Production ETI-CR
2:40 pm Austin - The Open Throat in a Closed - Voice Culture ETI-CR
3:10 pm Blades-Zeller - Singing with the Whole Self ETI-CR
3:40 pm BREAK ETI-CR
4:00 pm Pettersen - Muscular patterns and muscular loading levels by classical singers recorded by surface electromyography ETI-CR
4:30 pm McCoy - Breath Management in Singing: Men vs. Women ETI-CR
5:00 pm Lã - The Influence of the Menstrual Cycle and the Oral Contraceptive Pill on the Female Operatic Singing Voice ETI-CR
5:30 pm DISCUSSION/DINNER BREAK Discussion moderated by Cleveland ETI-CR
6:00 pm DINNER on your own  
7:00 pm
-9:00 pm
Popeil/Miller demonstrations Popeil: Classical versus Belting Techniques; Miller: Voce Vista Tutorial
Clayne Robison, Voice Faculty, Brigham Young University, UT, will debut his new video, "Beautiful Singing: Not Just for the Chosen" in the NCVS lobby.
NCVS
* ETI-CR = Executive Tower Inn Conference Room; NCVS = NCVS Tramway Facility Classroom

Friday, October 8th
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Time Topic Location
8:00 am Gathering, Refreshments, Registration ETI-CR
9:00 am Miller - "Mixed" Registers in Singing ETI-CR
9:40 am Howard - Technology in the singing studio: evaluation by users ETI-CR
10:10 am Ihasz & Parmer- Practical Pedagogy and VoceVista ETI-CR
10:40 am BREAK ETI-CR
11:00 am Spencer - Objective Measures of Craft and Potential in Developing Singers ETI-CR
11:30 am Carroll - Significance of analysis window size in maximum flow declination rate ETI-CR
12:00 pm Wicklund/Vogley - Therapeutic Protocols for the Vocally Injured University Singer ETI-CR
12:30 pm DISCUSSION/LUNCH - Discussion moderated by Ternström ETI-CR
1:00 pm LUNCH - Poster paper presenters may set up their displays over this lunch break on your own  
2:00 pm Sundberg - The nasal tract as a resonator in singing - some experimental findings ETI-CR
2:40 pm Wolfe - Resonance strategies and glottal behaviour in singing ETI-CR
3:10 pm Callaway - The Use of Spectrographic Analysis of Female Voices in the College Voice Studio
ETI-CR
3:40 pm Thurman - Addressing vocal register discrepancies ETI-CR
4:10 pm DISCUSSION/BREAK - Discussion moderated by Titze ETI-CR
4:40 pm -
6:00 pm

Poster Paper Session
Amir - Birth Control Pills and Voice [This abstract is a pdf file, get a pdf viwer here]
Cossette - Research on Breath Support
Spencer presents on behalf of LeBorgne - Belters Pathology? Three Case Presentations
Malde - Translating Imagery into the Language of Body Mapping
McNaughton - Singing and voicework for those with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and special needs as well as stroke patients and the carers for these groups
Nix - Vowel Modification Revisited
Wicklund - Current pedagogical methods in singing voice rehabilitation

ETI-CR
6:00 pm DINNER BREAK on your own ETI-CR
7:30 pm Free Night on your own in Denver.  
* ETI-CR = Executive Tower Inn Conference Room; NCVS = NCVS Tramway Facility Classroom

Saturday, October 9th
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Time Topic Location
8:00 am Gathering, Refreshments, Registration ETI-CR
9:00 am Ternström - Synthesizing singing: what’s the buzz? ETI-CR
9:40 am Daugherty - The Effect of Choir Spacing on Choral Singers’ Perceptions of Efficient Vocal Production ETI-CR
10:10 am Welch - Developing young professional female singers in UK cathedrals ETI-CR
10:40 am BREAK ETI-CR
11:00 am Popeil - Acoustical description of 8 common singing styles produced by a single singer: preliminary results
ETI-CR
11:30 am Weiss - Vocal Health in the Choral Rehearsal: Common Ground for Operatically Trained Singers, Studio Voice teachers, and Choral Conductors ETI-CR
12:00 pm Carey - Comparative study of vocal technique through historical recordings ETI-CR
12:30 pm Discussion/Lunch Break - Discussion moderated by Nair ETI-CR
1:00 pm Lunch on your own  
2:00 pm Nair - Acoustics and Physiology of Singer's Consonants - a little-explored area ETI-CR
2:40 pm Rainero - The Tongue as Culprit ETI-CR
3:10 pm Rothenberg - The Control of Consonant Airflow During Singing. ETI-CR
3:40 pm Break ETI-CR
4:00 pm Panel Discussion Moderated by Paul Kiesgen, Indiana University Voice Faculty ETI-CR
4:30 pm -
6:00 pm
Click here for information about the Panel Discussion Topic ETI-CR
6:00 pm Dinner on your own ETI-CR
8:00 pm -
9:30 pm
Guest Recital Robin Blitch Wiper, soprano and Mutsumi Moteki, piano
King Center, located on the Auraria Campus.
ETI-CR
* ETI-CR = Executive Tower Inn Conference Room; NCVS = NCVS Tramway Facility Classroom

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