Sarah Cullins Vocal Studio

🎤🌟 Calling all Singers! 🌟🎤

Cirque du Soleil is searching for a male and female vocalist to join our new touring show! 🌍✨ If you have an extraordinary voice and a passion for performance, this is your chance to shine on stages worldwide! 🎶💫

Apply now ✨
Mezzo-soprano/actress/instrumentalist singer: https://cirk.me/3wLs8A7
Tenor/actor/instrumentalist singer: https://cirk.me/48P774K

I have been VERY remiss in congratulating my seven private students who worked so hard to prepare absolutely fabulous All-State Scholarship Competition auditions! And, a special BRAVI to those who placed:
Lili Diemer, Scholarship
Ambrose Cusick, Honorable Mention
Neve Bruno, Honorable Mention
Also, a huge thank you to pianist Mary Jane Austin and guitarist Daniel Gaviria for your musical guidance, coaching and beautiful playing!

Creativity. Neuro-plasticity. Problem solving. Beauty. Discipline. Self motivation. Harmony. Cooperation. Leadership. And yes, math and physics and history and literature. Singing combines ALL of these skills that are essential to happiness and success!

The schools that produced the highest academic achievement in the United States today are spending 20% to 30% of the day on the arts, with special emphasis on music.

International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IAEEA) Test.

Anyone have a copy of (or have in their school library) Il Campiello by Wolf-Ferrari????!?!?!?! I've ordered it but it will take several weeks and I need the last scene ("Bondi, Venezia cara") ASAP!!!

What a great opportunity!!!

Career Blueprints for Singers | OPERA America Career Blueprints for Singers engages singers in a multi-day intensive workshop on artist entrepreneurship and the practical elements of launching a career in opera.

Start 2024 on the right note!
Spring Chorus begins January 8th!
www.greaterburlingtonchildrenschorus.org

A great opportunity!!!!

It’s time to start looking for some new VOCES8 Scholars!

If you’re a singer at the beginning of your career looking for professional experience and opportunities, take a look at applying for our programmes in the UK and USA.

You can find out more, and how to apply, at the website below.

And….the same is true of music of course!

So excited for my student Cristina Escobedo’s debut with the Vermont Philharmonic! Hope you all get a chance to hear her soon!! (Hint: she’ll also be the special guest for Youth Opera’s New Year’s Eve Highlight performance!)

Love these happy faces of students finishing their New England Music Festival auditions today!

Toi toi toi to my 16 private students auditioning for the New England Music Festival today! Go out there and SLAY!

Interesting way of looking at it. 🤔😎❤️

Thanks Erin Grainger for organizing a great masterclass with your voice students at St. Michael’s College yesterday! It was wonderful hearing their lovely voices and strong preparation and giving them some tips.

THIS is what I mean when I explain to my students that when they walk on stage, even if it’s been a bad day or a bad month, even if singing has been a confusing or frustrating chore for them recently, even if they’ve been having doubts about their talent or their choices or their path, they have a JOB to do, a job that has less to do with them and so much more to do with the beautiful and powerful responsibility they hold.

Exciting!!!

Let's Sing! Greater Burlington Children's Chorus is a new chorus with a mission to inspire and enrich lives through music. Inspiring harmony.

Some of you have gotten to know Shafali in studio class (via London) - enjoy this fabulous clip of her performance this summer!!!

"Se l'idol mio," Handel's Serse - Shafali Jalota "Se l'idol mio" from Handel's SERSE (Xerxes)Opera Neo Baroque Orchestra conducted by Stephen StubbsShafali Jalota, SopranoKevin Devine, Assistant ConductorTe...

Still missing a few flairs, but the new Church Street studio is open for business!

Students: please read!!!!! And continue our focus on getting your tongue into a better - and looser - position!

Your tongue acts as a rudder and support system through a fascial line that runs right down to your toes!

In nearly all my patients, I see poor tongue posture, and the links to bad spinal posture, breathing, and other issues are felt right throughout the body.

The simplest way we can see how the tongue is so influential is how it supports proper head posture. When the tongue is down and forward, forward head posture and mouthbreathing occurs.

Over time this associates with a narrow jaw, crooked teeth, and sleep disorders.

But… you guessed it, as always the mouth is a gateway for so many other systems in the body.

The tongue is an extremely complex muscular and fascial rudder system.

It guides all the structures of the myofascial continuity that runs from the inner arch of the foot all the way up through the middle of the body to the tongue and jaw muscles.

Isn’t that amazing?

Actually the tongue is potentially more important for core stability than turning on your actual core.

Our core begins deep under the arch with the insertions of the tendons from the lower leg, especially tibialis posterior.

To find its insertion, feel just under the inside arch of the foot, just underneath and forward of protrusion of the navicular bone you can feel a bit over an inch in front of your tibial malleolus on the inside of your ankle.

This point will respond to a soft-but-energy-rich touch that is held, and also to a more firm and direct fascial release. Pressing here can make a flow of feeling run up the fascial line.

So for better core support, spinal, hip and leg strength, you need to work on your tongue posture.

During exercise practice sealing the tongue to the roof of the mouth, this turns on the fascial rudder to the toes. It takes time and you need to work on making the BACK of the tongue connect to the soft palate. More on this to come.

Music is all that! (and a bag of chips) 😁🎵

The Sarah Cullins Vocal Studio presents selections from the beautiful Stabat Mater by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736). This is primarily an Easter gift to our friends and neighbors at eldercare residences across Vermont, many of whom we serenaded last summer in mini outdoor concerts as part of Project Serenade. These selections were recorded during the dark winter months of the pandemic in basements, living rooms, bed rooms or wherever there was some peace and quiet, by singers ages 12-70 of all levels and backgrounds. We hope you enjoy it. Thank YOU for keeping us singing!

Pergolesi Stabat Mater, selections The Sarah Cullins Vocal Studio presents selections from the beautiful Stabat Mater by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736). This is a gift to our friends ...

Well-deserved congratulations to my student Blayne Fitzgerald!!