VOICE LESSONS AT CHICAGO CENTER FOR PROFESSIONAL VOICE:
Healthy Belting techniques for music theater singing; also classical, pop and jazz taught by Dr. Karen Wicklund, D.M. teacher of voice, MHS in Speech Pathology;
Fine Arts Building- 410 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60605; email: wicklund@singershealth.com; www.singershealth.com;
Voice mail: 847-776-4911
Dr. Wicklund, who is also coordinator of Music Theater Voice at Western Michigan University, is a vocal technician and singers wellness specialist who specializes in voice building techniques including:
1. Balancing of the singers four systems (respiration, phonation, resonation, articulation) with attention to appropriate balance differences in each vocal style (classical, music theater, pop, jazz).
2. Cross-training techniques for singers wishing to sing in more than one vocal style.
3. Healthy speaking techniques, vocal hygiene and singers wellness instruction (10 steps to singers wellness).
4. Healthy Broadway (Belting) Singing techniques.
5. Audition preparation techniques.
6. Monthly free studio classes for all students.
7. Solo and small ensemble recital opportunities (opera and musical theater duets and scenes) for students who study at least bi-monthly.
8. Recitals are often done to benefit local and national charity organizations such as Beyond Borders, Aids Foundation and Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
SINGING VOICE THERAPY/SPEECH THERAPY AT CHICAGO CENTER FOR PROFESSIONAL VOICE:
Dr. Wicklund is a singing instructor who is also a degreed speech pathologist, and sub-specializes in singers/speakers who have injured/dysphonic voices. Some of the injuries she assists in treating (as part of the therapy team of ENT doctor, speech pathologist and singing teacher) are functional, organic and neurological voice disorders such as:
-vocal cord nodules; polyps; paresis/paralysis; hemorrhages/ectasia; granuloma, muscle tension dysphonia and functional dysphonia and aphonia, pitch/phonation breaks, dysarthrias and endocrine changes affecting the voice.
She also provides appropriate medical referrals, and assists with creating and implementing therapeutic protocols for:
-post-surgical vocal rehabilitation following thyroplasty, laser surgery and entubation trama.
-dysphonia caused by GERD and Allergies
Dr. Wicklund re-balances the injured voice with attention to:
1. Pitch
2. Intensity
3. Resonance
4. Duration
5. Quality
FOR MORE INFORMATION REGARDING SINGING VOICE/SPEECH THERAPY, PLEASE CONTACT DR. WICKLUND AT:
wicklund@singershealth.com, or 847-776-4911