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BANFF, Alberta, Canada:
International Voice Workshops at The Banff Centre – May/June 2012
The Introductory w/shop will again be 3 days for 16 participants (May 21, 22 and 23), and the Advanced will be 10 days for 12 participants (May 25 to June 3). Details forthcoming:
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/
Click on Voice Workshops.
2010 marked the 25th anniversary of Richard Armstrong’s work at the Banff Centre.
NEW YORK, USA:
Richard has been vocal coaching Martha Clarke’s new work “Angel Reapers”, which begins its New York run at the Joyce Theater, New York on November 29. Details: http://joyce.org/performancestickets/calendar_detail.php?event=396&theater=1
NORTH CAROLINA, USA:
On April 6th, 2011, Richard Armstrong gave the closing lecture for the 2010-11 Franklin Humanities Institute Annual Seminar, “Expression/Performance/Behavior: Rethinking the Humanities”, at Duke University, North Carolina, invited by Ellen Hemphill.
TORONTO, Canada:
Richard’s collaboration with singer and producer Fides Krucker, librettist Tom Walmsley and composer Louis Dufort on their new opera, Julie Sits Waiting, has continued with further development workshops. The premiere is now scheduled for September 2012.
ROME, Italy:
Richard is invited to perform in the new opera Alexander, by Italian composer Mauricio Squillante in 3 roles being written for his voice. He will play Alexander's three teachers - Aristotle, Diogenes and Aristander - in performances to be scheduled. He collaborated with the composer to create the voice parts in three development workshops in Rome between 2006 and 2008. The opera is being produced by the Italian Association for Contemporary Opera - www.aiolc.it
publications
THE HEAD OF ORPHEUS Voice, Song and the Poetics of Resistance and Transformation. POIESIS / a journal of the arts & communication, Vol 13, 2011, Editor : Stephen K. Levine, E.G.S. Press. Articles by Linda Wise, Enrique Pardo, RIchard Armstrong, Fides Krucker, Rishma Dunlop and others. Orders : Sarah Farr, EGS Press, Toronto
INTERVIEW: with Richard Armstrong, published in VOICE AND SPEECH TRAINING IN THE NEW MILLENIUM: Conversations with Master Teachers, Applause books, ed. Nancy Saklad, June 2011. (interviews with Richard Armstrong, Cicely Berry, Patsy Rodenburg, Kristin Linklater, Catherine Fitzmaurice, Dudley Knight, Phil Thompson, Natsuko Ohama, Andrew Wade and others)
