Commercial and Popular Music Degree Program Surveys
These are the slides from the presentation Kat Reinhert and I did at the APME Conference in 2017. They summarize the data we collected in two surveys of commercial and popular music degree programs in the winter of 2017: one of the voice faculty in those programs and one of the curriculum in those programs (sent to the primary administrator in each). Slideshow below.
Jess is a creativity and artist coach, contemporary voice specialist, indie soul singer-songwriter-producer, and owner of True Colors Voice and Artist Coaching.
Throughout school, she sang soul, jazz, pop, and musical theatre alongside choral and classical music. After completing her master's in classical vocal pedagogy and performance, she devoured whatever she could find about CCM (non-classical) vocal pedagogy, attended her first CCM Institute in 2009, and was eventually appointed to the faculty of the Institute in 2016. Her love for popular music in particular led to the creation of Singing in Popular Musics, a blog by and for voice teachers.
Right after grad school, she started her personal artistry walkabout after a teacher led her to The Artist's Way. It was the first of a non-stop string of books about creativity, coaching, psychology, productivity, and healing, all of which found their way into her teaching as well as her own artistry. While she still loves nerding out on vocal pedagogy and helping singers create the sounds they want, her true passion is in helping singer-artists connect to the why behind their voice, songs, and style, walking alongside them as they find their own path to artistic authenticity.
She’s currently a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the Association for Popular Music Education, and the Creativity Coaching Association.
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