PopVoxCon –
The Popular Voice Conference

Sandra Amon-Kleissner
Belting für Anfänger:innen: Ein Estill-basierter Zugang zu kraftvollem Singen ohne Druck
Format: Workshop
A practical, Estill-based introduction to healthy and accessible belting. Participants explore tools for finding vocal power, clarity, and confidence without pushing, with direct application for singers and teachers working in popular styles.

Birte Dalbauer-Stokkebæk
Mindfulness for Musicians: A Singer’s Story
Format: Workshop
Personal and pedagogical presentation on mindfulness as a support for musical life, vocal health, psychological well-being, and sustainable performance practice.

Dena DeRose
Phrasing, interpretation, and vocal musicianship in jazz singing
Format: Workshop
How can jazz phrasing, lyric work, improvisation, rhythmic feel, and storytelling deepen musicianship in any musical style? Emphasis on authentic interpretation and artistic individuality.

Louisa Gibbs
Is There a Jazz Voice
Format: Workshop
This presentation-workshop explores “jazz” vocals in relation to two originating and crossfertilizing cultural sources and voice use: the blues and popular song and, respectively, the ‘outdoor’ and the ‘indoor’ voice

Annette Giesriegl
Gaining Flexibility and Comfortability through Scale-Singing in Indian Music
Format: Workshop
This workshop uses Indian music concepts such as scale relationships, raga, and improvisational tools to expand flexibility in Western vocal practice. Participants explore deep listening, embodiment, and improvisational language through practical singing exercises.

Bettina Krenosz & Lisi Hörbinger
Explore Vocal Options in Pop, Rock, Jazz
Format: Workshop
This practical session explores vocal colors and stylistic sounds across popular music styles. Through listening, reflection, and guided vocal exercises, participants examine how different sound ideals can be explored consciously, flexibly, and with attention to vocal health.

Linda Kristengård
Vocal Painting: A Way of Improvising with Vocal Music
Format: Workshop / Applied Session
This practical workshop introduces Vocal Painting as a tool for live arranging, composing, rehearsal work, group dynamics, ear training, and ensemble improvisation. Participants explore how shared musical gestures can support collective vocal creation in real time.

Corinne Mager
The Value of Visual Feedback in Voice Training
Format: Workshop
This workshop demonstrates how visual acoustic feedback can support voice learning by helping singers connect sensation, sound, and measurable vocal outcomes. Participants explore pitch, loudness, brightness, clarity, and strategies for more effective independent practice.

Gerald Marko
The Empowered Student: Applying Differentiated Voice Control to Enable Learner Autonomy and Self-Regulation
Format: Workshop
This workshop explores how differentiated voice control can help students become more autonomous, reflective, and creatively courageous. Participants engage with practical tools that support self-regulated learning, peer feedback, and exploratory vocal practice in CCM/popular music settings.

Ellie Martin
Using AI to Help Find Your Songwriting Voice
Format: Open Classroom / Interactive Workshop
This interactive session explores AI as a low-pressure tool for beginning songwriters. Participants generate lyrics with AI, edit them toward more personal expression, and explore how AI-generated musical material can be embodied and transformed through live vocal performance.

Mario Mrazek & Nina-Katharina Braith-Schall
Do We All Mean the Same Thing? Terminology in Contemporary Commercial Music Voice Pedagogy
Format: Guided Panel
This guided panel explores how terms like mix, belt, support, twang, placement, and registration can mean very different things depending on a teacher’s training background or vocal method. The discussion asks how we can communicate more clearly across techniques, classrooms, and institutions.

Kristen Murdaugh
Building Your Vocal Toolbox: Breath as a Gateway to Timbre Variation in CCM
Format: Workshop
This practical workshop connects breath variation to timbre variation in CCM. Participants explore airflow, pressure, resistance, pacing, straw phonation, movement-based breath tasks, and acoustic visualization.

Anna-Maria Niemand
In-Sync: Coordination in Ensemble Singing
Format: Workshop
A practical workshop exploring how singers coordinate with one another in ensemble performance. Through singing, movement, rhythmic interaction, and reflection, participants investigate how shared timing, listening, physical awareness, and joint action shape the experience of performing together.

Katja Reichert
One Voice, Many Solutions: Universal Principles and Style-Specific Choices in Contemporary Vocal Training
Format: Open Classroom / Learning Zone
This interactive Open Classroom explores what stays consistent in healthy, efficient singing—and what we can change to create different sounds and vocal expressions. Through live demonstrations and work with participants, we’ll experiment with practical ways of influencing vocal colour and style, while also looking at what can happen when a new sound challenges a singer’s learned habits—or even their sense of vocal identity.

Kaveri Sageder
Rhythm in Motion: Indian Rhythm, Groove & Vocal Expression through the Perspective of Kathak Dance
Format: Workshop
A practical workshop exploring rhythm, groove, movement, and vocal expression through the lens of Indian Kathak dance. Using body movement, gesture, footwork, and spoken rhythmic syllables, participants experience pulse, breath, improvisation, and musical expression in an embodied way.

Sara Simionato
Co-Creative AI as a Tool for Vocal Improvisation and Textural Exploration
Format: Workshop
This interactive workshop uses co-creative AI as a partner in vocal improvisation, timbral exploration, and collective creation. Participants engage in guided improvisation experiments while exploring authorship, agency, and the role of technology in vocal pedagogy.

Sanne Stria
Was tun, wenn die Stimme wegbleibt!?
Format: Workshop
An interactive vocal health workshop on what singers and teachers can do when the voice becomes tired, unreliable, or disappears. The session includes anatomy, body-based exercises, warm-up strategies, rehearsal/performance do’s and don’ts, and practical prevention tools.

Patrik Thurner
Too Much Information – An Introduction to the Basic Anatomy of the Voice
Format: Open Classroom / Learning Zone
A clear and accessible introduction to the basic anatomy of the voice. This session offers a practical roadmap through the most relevant vocal structures, helping participants zoom in and out of anatomical detail without getting lost.

Ineke Vandoorn
Putting the Voice First: Perspectives on Vocal Improvisation
Format: Workshop
This singer-centered workshop approaches improvisation from the voice itself rather than from instrumental models. Participants explore sound, melody, phrasing, timing, and build-up while developing greater freedom and confidence as improvising singers.