302 Fellows Court, Weymouth Terrace E2 8LA London GB Phone: 0044 20 7613 4428 e-mail: Sigrid.Agocsi@vocaltown.com URL: www.Vocaltown.com/Sigrid.E.Agocsi.html .jpg) Sigrid E. Agocsi, Professor for Voice-, Breathing- and Movements- Coordination born in Munster, 1961. In addition to her studies in music, musicology, pedagogy, psychology, philosophy, linguistics, drama, arts and medicine, she was also accepted as one out of five eligible students for a multi-disciplinary training, which covered all fields around the voice, breathing, body movements, relaxation techniques, voice and speech therapy, playwriting, directing, acting, rhetorics and broadcasting. Her professional life started while still at university as a singing teacher, and therapist with a combination of approaches from music, arts, movements, speech, voice, singing, and then as assistant lecturer in drama, voice and speech didactics. Her methodology (S.A.M.) has been publicised internationally and is used by academic and performance arts educational institutions worldwide. She is living in London, where she is working as a voice consultant to the music and film industry. In 1998 she founded the FIRST LONDON VOCAL SOCIETY, an interdisciplinary forum for singers, instrumentalists and all voice-, breathing- and movements-related disciplines, and the WORLD ACADEMY FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY TRAINING, which offers advanced training in the above disciplines. Together with her husband Janos Agocsi, she also founded the FIRST LONDON OUTSIDER MOVEMENT, a forum for the promotion of high quality and originality in the arts, music, film, words and multi-media. She is also a mother, poet, actress, director, classical singer, writer, journalist and mystic. Currently she is preparing the biggest world event ever in voice and movements education: THE FIRST INTERDISCIPLINARY WORLD SYMPOSIUM FOR SINGERS AND ALL VOICE- AND MOVEMENTS- RELATED DISCIPLINES, which will take place in LONDON IN SPRING 2003. Voice, breath and speech were the powerful tools of creation. Voice is a pure creative force, the inarticulate sound which is beginning and end at the same time. Speech is the opposite; it is articulate. These two are connected by breath, which in some ancient languages also translated as divine inspiration or spirit. As long as knowledge has existed from the earliest beginnings of culture the correct utterance and efficacy of the spoken word have always been regarded more than just useful elements for communication. They were seen as charged with divine intervention or magic which brought all of existence into being. If you want to use your voice to the full you must learn to listen to your inner self, and rid yourself of behaviour patterns which keep you from enjoying your true potential. Extract from VOCAL DOCTRINE, Vol. I, VOICE INTITATION [ top ] |