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Kenneth Bozeman, author of Practical Vocal Acoustics and Kinesthetic Voice Pedagogy, served as Professor of Music at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin for 42 years. He was awarded the Van Lawrence Fellowship by the Voice Foundation in 1994 and is on the editorial boards of the NATS Journal of Singing and the Voice Foundation’s Journal of Voice. He has twice been a master teacher for the NATS Intern Program and was inducted into the American Academy of Teachers of Singing in 2019. He was honored to be a keynote speaker for the British Voice Association (2021) and the International Congress of Voice Teachers (2022). His work explores the acoustic landscape that all voices inhabit, describes the inherent relationships of its components, and seeks ways to motivate efficient singing while respecting both acoustic reality and effective historic pedagogy.

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Ian Howell, is the founder and chief educator at the Embodied Music Lab. He spent the past decade as pedagogue, researcher, and thought leader as a professor of voice and vocal pedagogy at the New England Conservatory in Boston. He has sung in most major concert halls across America, Europe, Canada, and Japan as a soloist and with the Grammy Award winning ensemble Chanticleer. His research interests include the intersection of human perception and the singing voice with a special focus on the role of auditory transduction. He believes that by asking how the hearing brain processes sound and reliably introduces perceptual qualities, we can come to understand what sounds the human voice can possibly make. This allows us to better notice, label, and anticipate these properties in the teaching studio. He has presented original research at the Voice Foundation, PAVA, and the Society for Music Perception and Cognition and is published in VoicePrints, the Journal of Singing, and the Journal of Voice. He was awarded the Van Lawrence Fellowship by the Voice Foundation in 2022, the 2021 AATS Award for Covid-19 response, and was inducted into the American Academy of Teachers of Singing in 2023. In 2022 he founded the Embodied Music Lab to bring evidence-based information to voice teachers and singers.

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Chadley Ballantyne is an assistant professor of music, voice at Stetson University. His work explores the application of voice acoustics across singing styles, voice pedagogy for adolescent singers, somatosensory awareness, and the use of speech sounds to leverage desired acoustic outcomes in singing. He believes that a deeper understanding of how we acquire and execute speech motor skills can demystify many of the challenges of singing and voice pedagogy. He is a contributing author to The Evolving Singing Voice: Changes Across the Lifespan.

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Marci Rosenberg is a singer, speech pathologist and clinical singing voice specialist. An active performer in her earlier years, Marci completed a her degree in vocal performance at Peabody Conservatory before entering the field of Speech Language Pathology. She has worked clinically for over 20 years at The University of Michigan, Vocal Health Center specializing in rehabilitation of injured voices. Additionally, she serves as the on-site vocal health consultant to the Department of Musical Theatre at University of Michigan. Marci teaches workshops and lectures nationally and internationally on a wide array of topics including vocal fitness, application of SOVT’s to voice training, managing vocal injuries and rehabilitation in elite singers, application of kinesiology and motor learning principals to voice training, and healthy belting. She is co-author of The Vocal Athlete, and The Vocal Athlete- Application and technique for the hybrid singer, going into its 3rd Edition. She has research publications and is also a featured author in several voice pedagogy books. She is guest faculty at The New CCM Summer Pedagogy Institute at Shenandoah and served as Vice President for the Pan-American Vocology Association. Among the first cohort to receive PAVA-RV, Marci Chairs the PAVA Symposium Oversight Committee and continues to be very active with PAVA. In addition to her clinical practice, Marci maintains a private voice studio and consulting practice. As Marci specializes in multiple vocal styles, her clients have ranged from the Broadway stage to the Metropolitan Opera and everything in between.

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Joanne Bozeman, co-author of Singing Through Change: Women’s Voices in Midlife, Menopause, and Beyond, has been a voice teacher for nearly 50 years, beginning when she was completing her music training at the University of Arizona. She was faculty member at Lawrence University’s Conservatory of Music for 26 years, where she taught singing and a number of voice-related and music education courses. Along with her teaching career, Joanne was an actively performing soprano, specializing in recital repertoire, oratorio and chamber music. Singing Through Change: Women’s Voices in Midlife, Menopause, and Beyond, released in 2020, emerged from her long-standing interest in voice health and the relationship of hormones and voice throughout the reproductive lifespan. She has been a frequent presenter on the subject for many organizations, including the International Congress of Voice Teachers (ICVT), the British Voice Association, (BVA), the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), the Pan American Vocology Association (PAVA), International Voice Teachers of Mix (IVTOM), and many others. Joanne is a tutor with Vocal Health Education (UK). Now retired from academia, she continues to be engaged with the voice community as a teacher and researcher.

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Kayla Gautereaux is a professor of voice and vocal pedagogy at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where she guides the MFA Musical Theater Vocal Pedagogy students through the thesis research, writing, and defense process. She and her students regularly present original research at national and international conferences to advance the field of voice pedagogy. In their dissertation process, students learn to translate their artists’ perspectives into systematic investigation, coherent writing, and persuasive presentations. Her graduated students become change-makers in the field, holding voice faculty positions at Berklee College of Music, Viterbo University, Baldwin Wallace University, Pace University, Oklahoma City University, The Catholic University of America, Fort Lewis College, Rockford University, and others.

An active NATS member for almost a decade, Gautereaux serves on the Boston Chapter Board, the Advisory Committee for the National Vice President of Outreach, and is the faculty advisor for the BoCo/Berklee SNATS Chapter. She was the 2023 recipient of the NATS Vocal Pedagogy Award and the Berklee Faculty Development Grant for Inclusive Teaching and Learning.

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Lauren Guthridge is the Administrative Coordinator for the Dystonia and Speech Motor Control Laboratory at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston, MA. Previously, she was the Voice and Sound Analysis lab manager and vocal pedagogy area administrator at New England Conservatory. Her research interests explore applications of technology and concepts from cognitive psychology in vocal pedagogy and music education settings. This work has been shared at the Voice Foundation, PAVA, and Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics among others. She earned her M.M in Vocal Pedagogy from New England Conservatory and a B.M. in Voice from Oklahoma State University.