Voice Lessons and Singing Voice Therapy

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 singer’s wellness specialist who specializes in voice building techniques including:

1. Balancing of the singer’s 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 singer’s wellness instruction (10 steps to singer’s 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