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PRESENTATION POSTPONED: Please note, due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control this keynote presentation is cancelled.  Our sincerest apologies for any inconvenience this causes.

Crossing Boundaries: Keynote Conversations in Fine Arts
Richard Armstrong
Thursday, Dec. 4
7pm
Lethbridge Public Library Theatre Gallery
Free Admission

Renowned New York based vocal instructor, director and performer Richard Armstrong presents the inaugural Crossing Boundaries: Keynote Conversations in Fine Arts series.  Reflecting on his vast experience teaching voice, Armstrong discusses his unique approach to vocal training that enables people to dramatically expand their multi-octave range.  The lecture is relevant to actors, singers, dancers, storytellers, composers, and instrumentalists of all levels of experience.  While here, Armstrong is also presenting a sold-out 2-day vocal workshop.  

Biography

With over 45 years of experience studying and teaching voice, Richard Armstrong’s distinction as a teacher, director, composer and performer has taken him to over 30 countries and inspired a generation of performers and their work.  His unique experience as a pioneer of the extension of the human voice began in the 1960’s when, as a founding member of the Roy Hart Theatre in France, he helped create one of Europe’s most influential schools of voice and body research.  

Recent accolades include the Banff Centre’s Paul D Fleck Fellowship (2013) and a collaboration with singer and producer Fides Krucker, librettist Tom Walmsley, and composer Louis Dufort to perform the new opera Julie Sits Waiting (Toronto), which was nominated for 5 Dora Awards (2012).

Annual events include his International Voice Workshops at the Banff Centre, and a workshop for the graduate theatre programme at Towson University in Baltimore, USA. Armstrong is an associate arts professor at New York University’s Experimental Theatre Wing at the Tisch School of the Arts and teaches for its International Summer School in Amsterdam. 

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Co-sponsored by the U of L Faculty of Fine Arts in partnership with the Lethbridge Public Library.