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Vocal
Music

VOCAL
STUDIES:
- Elizabeth
Howard - Vocal Power Institute, Los Angeles.
- Raymond
Harrell - Magic Circle Opera Repetory Ensemble, New York
City.
- David
Hykes - Harmonic Singing Workshop, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- Sushil
Mukherjee - East Indian Vocal Studies, Lenox, Massachusetts.
- Donna
Harler - Classical and Theatrical Music, Amherst College,
Massachusetts.
- Suzin
Greene - “Opening the Voice”, Violet Ray Theatre,
Northampton, Massachusetts.
- Bonnie
Bainbridge Cohen - The School for Body-Mind Centering,
Amherst, Massachusetts.
- Teenage
Performing Arts Workshops (TAPAW), New York City.
- American
Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York City.
VOCAL
TEACHING:
Jim was a Vocal Director
at the Los Angeles Theatre Center for a number of productions there in
1989 and 1990, including the acclaimed “Minamata”. He specialized
in the teaching of “extended vocal techniques”. He also has
given “Singing the Body Alive” workshops for the Los Angeles
Network of Sound Healers, and in numerous other locations across North
America. In the early 1990’s he gave private vocal lessons for students
in Southern California, and as a composer he continues to explore new
frontiers in the use of the human voice.
VOCAL
CREDITS:
Jim’s singing
voice has been heard in a number of feature films, including “Jacob’s
Ladder”, “Geronimo” (TNT version), and “Journey
to Spirit Island”. Using “extended vocal techniques”
such as overtone singing, he has transformed his voice in these soundtracks
to immitate the singing of whales and to suggest the crying of ancestral
spirits.
WORLD
MUSIC VOCALS:
Jim sings traditional
songs in over twenty languages representing Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania,
North, Central and South America. These languages include:
- EUROPE
- English, Spanish, French, Croatian and Macedonian
- AFRICA
- Arabic, Borana and Ancient Egyptian
- ASIA
- Hebrew, Hindi, Urdu and Bengali
- OCEANIA
- Hawaiian
- NORTH AMERICA
- Lakota, Hopi, Navajo, Kiowa, Seneca, Kwagiutl and Nahuatl
- CENTRAL
AMERICA - Mayan
- SOUTH AMERICA
- Quechua
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