What we’re about
A group designed to offer singers of all levels a safe and empowering environment to learn and explore vocal freedom and embodiment in a small and supportive group setting.
These 6-week courses are designed as an alternative and compliment to individual singing lessons, in order to experience greater synergy and inspiration in a format that makes achieving greater awareness and support possible. These short and intensive courses are devised and led by Beth Schuld, one of Edmonton's highly experienced and well known improvisers/vocal instructors. Conducted with a supportive, holistic approach, the course will cover the following:
- Improvisational techniques and approaches
- Develop and understand how the voice works and various approaches to improvement
- An exploration into the student's unique capacity to improve and develop technique
- Unlocking creative potential in all aspects of singing and vocal practice
- Provide a context and basis for improvised group composition
Not Your Average Voice Lessons are Beth’s personal brand of group lessons, designed to offer singers of all levels a safe and empowering environment to learn and explore vocal freedom and embodiment in a small and supportive group setting.Focused on breathing exercises, voice anatomy and mechanics, and embodied singing techniques, participants will learn to sing expressively and with confidence while also developing vocal intuition.
Edmonton, Alberta based Beth Schuld is a highly accomplished teacher and facilitator. She holds a degree in classical piano and voice, and a diploma in jazz piano. She has trained in group vocal improvisation with several amazing musicians and instructors including world famous Rhiannon of the Bobby McFerrin group, Gimme5. She has also completed a three year course in Integrative Body Psychotherapy which has enhanced her group facilitation skills.
Along with more than two decades of facilitation education and teacher training, Beth has a long history as a singer/songwriter, session musician, accompanist, and chorister in Edmonton’s diverse music community. She has taught at Grant MacEwan College, Alberta Music Academy, Community Music Initiatives, as well as privately. She's been invited to give workshops at Concordia University, in the the townships in South Africa, and in high schools. Since 2009, she has been empowering women through her work as a music teacher at the Edmonton Institution for Women, in partnership with the Sing for Life Society of Alberta. She has sung in many of Edmonton's choirs such as The Da Camera Singers, Chronos Vocal Ensemble, I Coristi Chamber Choir, the Richard Eaton Singers. She has been been hired as a session musician and producer.
Beth currently offers private voice and piano instruction, as well as group workshops for musicians of all levels who want to become more confident with improvisation techniques.
