"If more people understood how profoundly singing can enrich a life, they would want everyone they love to experience it."  JTM

This is an exciting time for Songkraft. For decades, the studio has produced showcase events that give singers the opportunity to learn and practise the art of performance. Now, senior students are taking the next step—creating and producing performance events that are not simply opportunities to perform, but works of art in their own right.

People obviously come to Songkraft to improve their singing and for performance opportunities.  That is a perfectly good reason to begin.  Singing is one of life's great pleasures, and there is deep satisfaction in discovering a voice that is freer, richer, more expressive, and more capable.  Arriving with the hope of improving their singing, people also discover something greater: an understanding of how human beings learn, change, and grow.

Professional singers don't practice until they get it right.  They practice until they can't get it wrong.  To do so, you'll need three things.

First, you'll need the information necessary to understand how exceptional voices and performances work.  You can't fly a plane without knowledge of the language of aviation, and you can't sing and perform without acquiring the how-to language that makes it possible for you to understand how to achieve excellence.  

Second, you'll definitely need to put in the necessary practice time and third, to love what you do enough to have the patience necessary to see it through, no matter what it takes.  

At a foundational level, it's simple.  Great singing is easy.  If it were hard, it would sound hard, and it doesn't.  To the singer, it feels effortless because, when they get it right, singers are at one with the song.  It's a freeing, ecstatic experience.  Moving forward, you will learn that what can be difficult is learning to make it easy.  To make it so, you must work at it until singing becomes a subconscious act, an experience in which breath, body, feeling, memory, imagination, and intention integrate into a living, spontaneous and fully integrated performance.  

If this way of thinking resonates with you, I believe you'll find that Songkraft offers singers an exceptional opportunity.  Focused on the process, one grounded in experience and backed up by neuroscientific research, studio singers pursue vocal excellence with the understanding that every genuine improvement in the voice reflects a deeper integration of the person who produces it. In the end, that may be the greatest lesson singing has to offer: that excellence is never simply about performing better. It is about becoming a better performer; a better version of yourself.