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IVA Certified Teacher Laura Duckworth shares her story of how she became a voice teacher…

Andreas Grussl answers a tweet on the topic of raspy voices, something that voice teachers can often encounter in their studios.…

Do you know what the benefits are of belonging to a certification program? Read on…

This gives you a good overview of who IVA is and what the program is about…

In today’s post, I’m going to continue with last week’s discussion on vowels, and discuss how we modify vowels as we approach the different passages of the voice.…

A key component in smoothing out the bridges of the voice, often forgotten, is the training of our minds to hear the vowel we want to sing very clearly…

IVA’s missions include Transparency and Education. This is what we stand for…

IVA has three key aspects of education, Vocal Pedagogy, Elective and Personal Development…

A brief introduction to the five certification tiers of the IVA Program. Student Teacher all the way to Mentor level…

In the run up to our launch we ran a campaign that started with Seven things you might not know about IVA.…

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Maggie Rogers was just a college student when she first met Pharrell Williams at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at NYU.  They were asked to prepare a song and bring it to class to be critiqued. She had no…

Who doesn’t love a massage? It’s a nice thing to do for ourselves every once in a while, but have you ever thought about how it can be a real part of caring for the health of your voice?…

Your voice is a highly complex instrument requiring many different parts of your body to work together with precision. In order to give you an idea of how the voice works, it helps to simplify things a bit.…