Karen Smith
Vocalist (Northern Beaches, Sydney)

Karen Smiths passionate love of singing began an 18 year career in performance, and teaching of singing and voice. Karen conducts vocal workshops and outreach programs under the heading of Sounds Alive! She teaches one to one or groups and conducts short or long courses in singing. The programmes run weekly and can last up to 10 weeks. She focuses of all areas of singing and from time to time runs one off workshops specialising in a particular feature of the singing voice, eg breathing techniques, singing styles and traditions, gaining power with the voice, control of the voice and others.

Through Sounds Alive!, Karen also promotes workshops by other singers and specialists. These focus on the music of different cultures eg: African, Italian, Gospel, or have a focus on an aspect of music such as songwriting.

Says Karen, “I am a singer, a teacher of song and voice and an ethnomusicologist. I am interested in music and its power to provide the interface between our conscious world and our unconscious spontaneous expression. Music can change our heart expression, our breath and make us dance. Music is a language beyond colour of skin, country or culture. It is a language that we all share.”

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