Part of keeping up with current knowledge is going to conferences. And often presenting at them – whether it’s giving a masterclass, presenting on teaching, or delivering a research paper. It’s also a great excuse to see new places and meet new people!
Just before the New Zealand trip Jean gave a paper on ‘Singing Classical Music in the Age of Recording’ at the national conference of the Australian National Association of Teachers of Singing in Canberra. The paper presented the results of a preliminary study of recorded performances of classical singing to examine how singing performance has changed over the period of recorded performance and the implications of those changes for singers and their teachers today.
In September 2005 Jean was an invited speaker at the interdisciplinary voice symposium ‘Deliver the Voice’ in Sydney, giving presentations on the assessment of singers, the use of computer-assisted visual feedback in the teaching of singing, and taking part in interdisciplinary panel discussions on different aspects of voice.
