Auvil Music Studio

03/20/2020

All set up for my Southwestern Michigan College students. 🎶 🎵

03/15/2020

04/09/2019

-TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS-

1. Our Summer Musical Theatre Camp show will be "Catch Me If You Can."

2. Applications for Musical Theatre Camp are being accepted now.

Musical Theatre Camp is a two-week experience for high school students designed to encourage the study of acting, singing and theatre production. The camp is part of SMC's Summer Institute, a series of camps designed to help high school students refine their skills and explore career interests.

Camp dates are July 14-28.

Learn more and apply at swmich.edu/summer-institute-theatre-camp.

03/24/2019

12/22/2017

This is what I look for in a student.

10/28/2017

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=asDg7T-WT-0

Ingo Titze demonstrates an easy technique that uses a simple straw for hard-working voices. For more videos like this, see the NCVS's official YouTube channe...

07/26/2017

Backstage Expert Philip Hernández shares the top five musical theater audition faux pas, how to avoid them, and why you should.

04/23/2017

An image showing the top of the lungs in relation to the collarbone.  1.) Your whole body is your instrument, not your just your vocal mechanism. Your voice is part of a total system which includes your mind and your entire body. Any method or technique of singing that doesn’t address the total mind...

04/18/2017

While the diaphragm is an essential muscle for breath support and for the production of sound, you can’t actually direct your diaphragm to do anything because it is an involuntary muscle. Just like another very important involuntary muscle in our body, the heart, the diaphragm has an essential job to do, but we cannot directly control it. Telling a singer to “use your diaphragm!” is like telling an athlete to “pump your heart!” It’s an impossible request and contributes to much confusion around the nature of breath support for singing.

Next time a voice instructor tells you to use your diaphragm, know what they really mean, and know how to effectively support your breath!