Singers Without Borders
The song loves the beauty at the breaking points of life.
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Calendar
06.11.2011 — Concert Salvator-Saal, Barnabiteng. 14, 1060 Wien
01.12.2011 — Live Broadcasting
11.12.2011 — Concert Salvator-Saal
01.02.2012 — Concert Peterskirche, Wien
25.02.2012 — Fundraising Concert Salvator-Saal
25.02.2012 — Concert Bratislava
Background
The Voice as an instrument
“Singers without borders” is a musician institution founded through a concert at Schlosstheater Schönnbrunn in April 2010. The concert was an homage to Birgit Nilsson while its second part was dedicated to the composer Benny Andersson. In the concert the past met the future and in that breaking point the term Singers without Borders was introduced. “Singers without borders” bring together singers from all genres, amateurs and professionals along with young students of singing. Prejudices fall apart and the essential meeting with the Voice is brought into light.
An idea
The idea is that through “Singers without Borders” give help and support to young singers facing the start of their career – through workshops and lectures. We want to tie all the good powers into this idea so that we can contribute to a development of the art of singing as an important part of every human’s need of expression, whether you are a singer or a listener or pull an aria in the forest where no one hears you.
Life is something to take seriously
Life is something to take seriously. Your breathing carries the song as an expression for your soul and spirit. It is as primal as the weeping and the laughing and can contain both the joy and the grief at the same time. Like the spectrum that you, as a human and a person, are.
Background and experience
For two years I had the privilege to study vocal educational science and method at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm for Maj Britt Lannfjäll and participate in Sångsvanen’s series of lectures about everything between the functions of the brain to vocal research through Prof Johan Sundberg and his scientific work at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm to lectures on different genres of singing that created deep insights in different performers attitude towards their instrument.
I, myself, have studied song since I was eight years old and my piano teacher called my mother and said; “The girl will never be a pianist but surely a Dramatic Soprano.” Already at that age I met the legend Folke Sällström and sang for Sixten Liedbergius before I, at age ten, was accepted to the Royal College of Music as a so-called “Object-child”. Since then I have studied for different teachers and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. I still go regularly to my voice-coach for feedback. The voice work lasts a lifetime because the voice develops continuingly together with your body and your person.
My teachers and mentors have included Folke Sällström, Sixten Liedbergius, Dagmar Gustafsson, Ks Rita Streich, Ks Birgit Nilsson, Oren Brown, Hovsångare Håkan Hagegård, Hovsångerska Elisabeth Söderström, Prof Solvig Grippe and Maestro Vijay Upadjaya and they have all given me pieces of their experiences and knowledge to be added to my treasure chest as a referendum.
I am a part of the Voice Teachers of Sweden (VoTS), known in Sweden as SSTPF.
We will put across many features that will convey the possibilities of the vocal instrument. Here you can also find activities that we will organize as we go along.
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