6 February 2012

043 – Interview with Gillian Kelly of VoiceQuest Inc. Part 2

Technique is the Servant of Communication

Gillian Kelly

Recorded on February 8, 2008 -In the second half of this interview with Gillian Kelly of VoiceQuest Inc., we talk about:

  • Where Gillian is performing in the next 6 – 8 months
  • The cabaret projects Gillian and Claire have in their repertoire
  • Some directing work that was Jefferson Award recommended

And of course, Comments From the Podcast Gallery. This leads to a discussion of where technique fits in the performance process and as life in general and how it affects and everything works together and how that affects working with singers in different genres and their demands on the voice.

If you haven’t heard the first half of this interview, you can listen here.

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042 – Interview with Gillian Kelly of VoiceQuest Inc. Part 1

Gillian Kelly

A Base of Technique

Gillian Kelly

Recorded on February 8, 2008VoiceQuest Inc. is a Chicago-based performance studio founded by Gillian Kelly and Claire Bigley. In this episode and the first half of the interview, I speak with Gillian about her training, past experiences and what brought her to the point of starting VoiceQuest Inc. Other topics discussed, Voice Teacher and Vocal Coach and the differences and how they are combined at VoiceQuest Inc. and all their offerings at the studio including performance classes and opportunities. Also, we talk about Davenport’s, a piano bar and cabaret in Chicago and why technique is so important in the teaching of singing. And a bit about the innovative way they use the web. VoiceQuest Inc. can be found at http://VoiceQuestInc.com.

More to come in the second half of the interview.

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Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

You might have noticed it’s been awhile since I’ve either made a blog entry or put out a podcast. It’s been an unplanned hiatus, some of the reasons for it will be upcoming entries and podcasts and some of it you can simply see here. I’ve changed the website over from JamesGoodrich.net to WithAVoiceLikeThis.com, but if you take my feed, the only thing you would have noticed is that you got a lot of the entries reloaded to you as new. The fact that you didn’t have to change a feed and the graphics work you see here recquire a special Thank you. That is to Kim Fenolio of KimFenolio.com. Kim is both Graphic Artist and Social Media Maven and gave a lot of advice in how to set up this blog/website so that in case of domain switch or drastic failure of any particular service used in this site, there’s always a workaround.

There are also some changes in what I’m doing with the blog and podcast. If I’m reminded of anything every time I try something new, it’s the fact that things evolve and change no matter how well planned. My focus will still be on my music and how all of this Interwebs stuff works, but it will also include Interwebs stuff period, since this is where I am free to make my music and promote it and sell it. So you’ll still here about what I’m doing by myself, with the a cappella group I’m in called 4-AM (website to follow soon) and how to promote and make the Internet work best for me that way. It’s a musical slice of life approach. And while I write about all things internet and music, you’ll still get to hear the original stuff I’m working on in its various stages and interviews of folks that I know, be they musicians or performers at large and maybe more, we’ll see how it all turns out. As always, Comments from the Podcast Gallery are most welcome, whether they are received live in the podcast, by voicemail or e-mail.

Here’s to more of everything. (c;

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