Kelowna Voice Lab

Oversinging - We've all done it - and have regretted it. Even as its happening, we know that what we are doing isn't a healthy, sustainable habit  for our voice yet we persist... singing and pushing louder, higher, more intense. These days, it seems that the current musical taste is that if we aren't bleeding from our vocal chords, we just aren't giving as much as we should. It's all a recipe for damaged vocal chords and ultimately, every singer's nightmare - vocal nodes.

The hangover effect of oversinging…

On Sunday, June 23, 2019 nineteen students performed in our big end of year show. 38 musical numbers were performed in total. The first act was acoustic with songs ranging from Phantom of the Opera and West Side Story to Sting's Fields of Gold and Tom Petty's Helpless. Kim played for students on keys with several songs also accompanied by Jim on guitar. Two students who study guitar with Jim played for themselves, one for the very first time.

Eighty friends and family members filled DunnEnzies on Lakeshore…

An amazing thing  happened Sunday night when Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper performed the nominated song Shallow from A Star Is Born and as a vocal teacher, I'm amazed that no one is talking about it.

Sure, the internet is buzzing with inuendo that there is more to their relationship than director/actor. Articles have been written about how the song was cinematically staged, the intimate final moments of the song, even how they joined hands in front of Cooper's wife Irina Shayk as they rose to take the stage.

It's that time of year again! Music has just been selected for the 6th annual Kelowna Voice Lab Christmas Concert and it promises to be our biggest and best concert to date!

The concert will be held at Montreal Real Foods in Kelowna - 1851 Kirschner Road. The doors open at 6:00 and the concert will begin at 7:00.

Students will be performing one solo each and will all perform together as a choir for two songs. Kim and Jim might also perform a song if time allows. 

We are especially excited that three…

Using a vocal coach isn't just for beginners. Three different adult students are currently using Kelowna Voice Lab to enhance their webinar presentations. When they first started, these successful adults knew they weren't fully prepared to present their material effectively. It wasn't that they didn't know their material... they did but they weren't communicating the "best self" they wanted to present.

I'm delighted to share that within two or three sessions, my clients felt a LOT more comfortable not only…

Congratulations KVL Students!

Because of your hard work making the 2016 Christmas CD, we were able to present a cheque  for $525.00 to the Kelowna Women's Shelter!

Kim Foreman-Rhindress presented the cheque to the Shelter's Executive Director Karen Mason on January 13, 2016 as well as a few complimentary Christmas CDs they said they would love to play in the shelter and in their gift shop next year.

The vocal student Christmas CD project was a huge success with 100 CDs being printed.

We will definitely plan to…

Kelowna Kiwanis Music Festival – 2016 
  
Nine students from Kelowna Voice Lab competed this year in the Kelowna Kiwanis Music Festival in both musical theatre and classical voice. This is the 90th year anniversary of this Canada-wide music competition. A total of 18 pieces were performed. For many students, it was their first time ever competing and I couldn’t be more proud of how everyone did at the competition. Our studio was extremely well represented and several awards were won. 


Kiwanis insists on RCM…