Vocal pedagogy

So where do you come from? Where do you do what you do every day?

I am the associate professor and director of vocal pedagogy at the University of Colorado Boulder.

And I run there, run our doctoral program, which was one of, if not the earliest doctoral program in voice pedagogy with a focus in that in the United States, founded by Burton Coffin in the 1930s.

Ooh, 50s, I think.

And there I run the Burton Coffin Voice Lab, and I supervise all of our theses and dissertations.

I teach some applied voice still as well, and I teach all of our courses related to voice pedagogy.

Okay.

That's excellent.

Wow

... and vocal training.

So from the age of six, I was doing, like, um, competitions, playing and singing.

Um, and then from there I joined a church choir, and that experience honestly really showed me my voice, showed me the strength of my voice, and, um, 'cause at church, like, they're not giving you any, like, runs to practice.