42nd Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice - Registration

The Voice Foundation's 42nd Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice,  May 29 - June 2, 2013 at the Westin Philadelphia. The symposium brings together top vocal health professionals for a unique, interdisciplinary opportunity to share the latest advances in scientific and medical voice research.

Keynote Speech will be given by Robert Hillman, Ph.D., Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School on May 30th at 1:30pm. The G. Paul Moore Lecture will be given on June 1st at 11:00 a.m by Thomas Murry, Ph.D., whose work as a clinician, scientist and educator lead to him being presented with the highest Honors of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association.On May 30th at 7:30 p.m., Metropolitan Opera Mezzo-Soprano and Huffington Post blogger, Susanne Mentzer, will give a Master Class to student opera singers.

A series of hands-on vocal workshops will take place at the Academy of Vocal Arts on May 31st, from 1:30 - 5:30 p.m. Workshop presenters will address a variety of voice-related topics, including body movement, the injured singing voice, classical singing, musical theatre, pop and the acting voice, in an open program that encourages audience participation.

In addition to these highlights, doctors, scientists, speech-language pathologists, singing teachers and students from across the globe will present new research about vocal production and techniques for the treatment of voice disorders.