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What does ‘to work on’ our voice mean? What must we work on, precisely?

Working depends on breathing, the posture of our body, on listening, on the exactitude of our tone and volume, and on our need for physical endurance.
But we must also understand music: study it, with its rythmic structure, its melody, its harmony and its differing styles.

We must understand the language we sing in: contrary to musicians, singers communicate a text which gives their music an objective meaning.

And lastly, singers must also know how to move: they are not fixed to the ground like a piano and their body is part of their expressive instrument.

Learning the technique for our voice includes all these demands.
But this is not all.

Even when the voice has been trained to become a convincing musical instrument it must have life breathed into it. This involves using our emotions, developping our capacity to become infused by them and transmitting them sincerely to the public: this quality is what the audience will remember.

Singing is an everlasting quest for perfection and emotion.

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATES and TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Years	Activities
2017	From the 27th of November to the 1st of December Master class for singers in Sofia, specialized in French style and pronunciation for operas and songs. Final concert Friday 1st of December at the National Musical Academy. More information
2017	Master class in France from July the 29th to the 5th of August, 2017, France. More information
2016	From the 21st to the 25th of November Master class for singers in Sofia, specialized in French style and pronunciation for operas and songs. Final concert Friday 25th at the National Musical Academy. More information
2016	Master class in France from July the 30th to the 6th of August, 2016, France More information
2016	Teaches in Italian "Sound design" pour students attending DAMS at the Link Campus University in Rome, Italy.
2015	Master class in Normandy from the 19th to the 24th of July.
2015	Master class specialized in French style and pronunciation in French operas and songs. Final concert Satudray 4 April at the National Musical Academy.
2014	Master Class 20-25 July, 2014, Paris, FRANCE
Since 2011	Teaches classical singing at the Russian Conservatory Rachmaninoff in Paris.
2010-2012	Master Classes „Harmonies”, France.
2007-2011	Teaches Master Classes in Singing in Sofia, Bulgaria, organized by the Bulgarian French Institute. Classes specialized in French style and pronunciation in French operas and songs.
2012-2016	Teaches in French and English oral expression “Finding your voice” at H.EC. in Paris to students attending the “Strategic Management” course.
2006-2011	Teaches in French at H.EC. in Paris to students attending the “Strategic Management” course.
2002-2003	Teaching Master Classes in Singing at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle and Leavenworth, WA.
1994-1999	Teaching Singing at the Conservatoire de Musique du XVème arrondissement, Frédéric Chopin in Paris. Sat on several juries of Singing examinations and competitions organized by music schools and Conservatoires de Musique in France. Organized Master Classes and workshops in Ville d’Avray, Moulin d’Andé, Baudinard and Vins sur Caramy.
1990-1994	Teaching Singing at the Conservatoire de Musique in Lilas, Paris. Several of my students got awards such as the Concours de Chant de Paris, Concours de Chant Léopold Bellan in Paris, Concours de Chant, Lied et Mélodie in Clérmond Ferrand, sing in the Chorus of the Bastille Opera House, the Chorus of the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and have become professional singers, performing regularly at the opera houses in France and in Italy.
1990	Received the Diplôme d’Etât in Singing in Paris. This certificate is a prerequisite for teaching in all music schools and Conservatoires de Musique in France.
1984	Received the First Prize Diploma in Singing from the National Conservatory in Venice, including Certificates in History of the Opera and Theatre and Acting for Singers.

	Took Master Classes in Singing with:
	Gianna Pederzini in Rome, Italy Rodolfo Celletti in Milan, Italy Elio Battaglia in Acquasparta (Corso di canto da camera), Italy Tito Gobbi in Asolo, Italy Anton Dermota in Trieste, Italy Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in Trieste, Italy Liliana Bareva and Peter Stabekov in Sofia, Bulgaria Giorgio Favaretto in Siena (Accademia Chigiana), Italy Gérard Souzay and Robin Bowman in St. Jean de Luz (Accadémie Maurice Ravel), France Richard Miller in Abbaye de Royaumont, France Udo Reinemann in Moulin d’Andé, France Vera Rosza in Accadémie de Villecreuse, France Gabriel Bacquier in Paris Régine Crespin in Paris
1981-1986	Teaching Piano at the Music School in Longarone, Italy.
1981	Received the First Prize Diploma in Piano, including Certificate in Rhythm, Harmony and History of Music. Graduated from high school in Venice, Italy, and obtained Certificate of Maturità of the Liceo Scientifico (Scientific High School). While in high school in Venice, also attended the National Conservatory of Music in Venice, taking Piano Classes with Maestro Vincenzo Pertile.