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This training is essential for:

• Vocal and Musical Explorers who want to expand the borders of their voices
• Everyone who is passionate about singing, but wants the opportunity to go deeper into it
• Participants wanting to develop confidence int their singing
• Re-starters seeking a new vision of singing
• Confident Singers / Voice Professionals
• Music teachers wanting to improve children’s singing
• Choice leaders

Bring voice technique for 21st Century Singers: Improvisation, movement, Alexander Technique, Therapeutic, and Metaphysical & Global Perspectives into your voicework. The training will start at the end of August, 2014. Duration: 21 days in weekend modules August to April 2015.

Tuition Fees:

• £930 (if paid in 1 installment), £965 (if paid in 2 installments), £995 (if paid in 3 installments)
• Discounted Fees: £25 deducted from the Fees for Early Booking by May 1st. £50 deducted from the Fees for full time students by May 1st.
• Work Scholarship: £75 off the above fees

Themes we will bring on this workshop include:

• Multicultural Musicing – Together in Harmony
• Vibrant New Instruments for Community Music
• Create Music in the Space between I and You
• Give Voice to Community
• …And much more!

For more details & to see the leaflet, use this link.
Fees:

• Discounted Fees: £75 (for booking by Aug. 1st), £80 (by Aug. 20th), £85 (thereafter)
• Concessions: £68 for OAPs, Couples, Full time students, & Groups of 3+ (by Aug. 1st)
• Work Scholarship Fee: £55 For details, please contact the Tonalis office.

These 2 workshops are for everyone who is Passionate about Singing Choral Music & Choir Leading. They will meet the needs of people searching for new choral tools and deeper perspectives on choir leading and choral singing – whether at an amateur or a professional level. For more details & to see the leaflet, use this link:

Fees:

• Discounted Fees: £110 (for booking by Aug. 1), £115 (by Oct. 1st), £85 (thereafter)
• ‘MovingBeyondtheNotes’ (1 Day) £44 / £50 / £55 (see date deadlines above)
• ‘MakeYourChoirSoundGreat’ (2 Days) £75 / £80 / £85 (see date deadlines above)
• Group Bookings (3+), Couples & Concessions (students & OAPs): Please contact us for details.
• Concessions: £68 for OAPs, Couples, Full time students, & Groups of 3+ (by Aug. 15th)
• Work Scholarship Fee: £80 (for 3 days), £58 (for 2 days) Please contact us for details.

This workshop will offer you the chance to discover how vocal styles of world musics can open up different aspects of your voice so that your ‘whole voice’ can be revealed. Explore how to create different voice qualities through learning to vary the way you use your resonance, breathing, and registers, etc.

Key Themes:

• Why do Different Cultures Sing in such Different Ways?
• Expand the Borders of Your Singing
• The World in Harmony – World Choral Music in Choirs
• World Music Meets Contemporary Choral Creativity
• The Healing Power of Singing in Different Vocal Styles.

For more details & the booking form on the leaflet use this link.

Fees:

• £74 (for booking by Feb. 15th), £78 (by March 10th), £84 (thereafter)
• Couples, OAPs, & Group Bookings (3+): £65 / £70 / £75 each (dates as above)
• Saturday Attendance Only: £48; Work Scholarship: £58 (Please check availability)

These 2 Workshops are for Waldorf Teachers and Music Teachers wanting to work explore the gifts of pentatonic music making – and can be taken together or as individual days.

The Mysteries of Pentatonic Music – 31st March – Discover an Inspiring New Guide to Pentatonic Music Making

The Way of the Pentatonic Flute – 1st April – Discover new Pathways of Playing

For more details & to see the leaflet, use this link.

Fees:

• Fee for 1 Day: £44 (for booking by February 20th), £48 (thereafter)
  • Group Bookings (2+), Couples & Students: £38 / £42 (dates as above)
• Fee for 2 Days: £72 (for booking by February 20th), £78 (by March 15th), £84(thereafter)
  • Group Bookings (2+), Couples & Students: £64 / £68 / £72 each (dates as above)

Two choral workshops – to be taken together or individually.

Lamentate and Alleluia is for all those people who want to celebrate seasons & festivals in song and discover a deep ecology that interweaves the Divine, the Natural and the Human in music.

The 2 workshops will move from the Darkness & Lamentation of PASSIONTIDE to the Balance of Light & Dark that sounds at the SPRING EQUINOX to the Light-filled Joyous Halleluias of EASTER.

For more details & to see the leaflet, use this link.

Fees:

• For 1 Day: £44 (for booking by March 1st), £48 (thereafter)
  • Couples, OAPs & Group Bookings (3+): £38/ £42 dates as above)
• For 2 Days: £72 (for booking by March 1st) £78 (by March 25th) £85 (thereafter)
  • Couples, OAPs & Group Bookings (3+): £62/ £68/ £72 each (dates as above)

Singing Therapy New Course 2015-2019

There is much talk today of organic, of universals and deep ecology. There are also growing debates about what theologians call ‘universal vs the particular’ and educationalists refer to as ‘nature vs nurture’. But what does this mean in the realm of music? This workshop is for everyone who wants to investigate what is natural and instrinsic in the realm of music and wants to understand music’s deep archetypes.

For more details & to see the leaflet, use this link.

Fees:

• For 1 Day: £100 (for booking by February 20th), 110 (by March 25th), £115 (thereafter)
• Couples, OAPs, Group Booking Fee for 3+: £88 / £95 / £100 each (see date deadlines above)
• Work Scholarship Fee: £68 One Work Scholarship is available to students & the unwaged.

Singing Training Topics

• Session 1: Exercises to Forget the Breathing – June 11-15, 2015
• Session 2: Directing the Sounds – February 2016
• Session 3: Vowels and Consonants  June 2016
• Session 4: Expansion – February 2017
• Session 5: Reflection of the Sound – June  2017
• Session 6: Reflection of the Word – February 2017
• Session 7: Summary and Closing – June 2018

Total Cost:

• Sessions 1 & 2: $1200 (includes 2 private lessons in June and 2 in February)
• Sessions 3 & 4: $1200 (includes 2 private lessons in June and 2 in February)
• Sessions 5 & 6: $1200 (includes 2 private lessons in June and 2 in February)
• Session 7: $800 (includes 2 private lessons in June)

Application Process:

Prerequisite: Prior experience with Uncovering the Voice: private lessons or courses.

To apply: Please write a paragraph about why you would like participate in the Training. Email it to Sheryl Adler-Eldridge. Upon acceptance into the 6th Training, Sheryl will contact you about registration information. For further inquiries, contact Sheryl by email or by phone at 530-210-3208.

Visit our website: werbecksinging.com

Christiaan Boele

Born in 1956 at The Hague in the Netherlands, Christiaan Boele exhibited strong musicianship early in life; this was a solid foundation for future study and his life’s work in music. He currently lives in Mendig, Germany and conducts various master classes, courses and schooling of the voice sessions around the world. Students from over ten countries travel to Christiaan to study. In addition, he leads a touring ensemble of twelve singers and continues to perform as a soloist.