Systematic Approach to Voice Exercises

Kathleen Van De Graaff, MM, earned a bachelor's and master's degree in vocal pedagogy from Brigham Young University and has been a vocal instructor for the past 20 years. She has taught group and private voice lessons at several universities and colleges including St. Xavier University, Brigham Young University, College of Lake County and is presently teaching at Lake Forest College in the Chicago area. Miss Van De Graaff has also taught opera workshops and musical theatre revues. A long time member of NATS, she is on the board in the Chicago area. She has been a guest teacher for master classes held in the west and midwest. She has produced 2 CDs for warming-up the voice called Winning Warm-ups for the Voice” and More Winning Warm-ups for the Voice” which are now being sold throughout North America and Europe. Her performance experience has included opera, oratorio and recital work which has taken her to Asia, Central America, and throughout the United States. She and her husband, Peter Van De Graaff, have been active in rediscovering chamber operas for soprano and bass from the early eighteenth century called intermezzi and have traveled throughout Europe collecting them, and are now performing them in English and in Italian. They have subsequently gained notoriety as specialists in this area, performing them throughout the United States and other parts in the world, as well as on live broadcasts over WFMT, Chicago, They have performed many of the modern premieres of these works.Van De Graaff, Kathleen is the author of 'Systematic Approach to Voice Exercises', published 2004 under ISBN 9780976077718 and ISBN 097607771X.