Singing with David D.

I am a voice trainer and therapist with professional experience as a singer and actor and have taught professional singers and actors singing voice in New York City and Washington, D.C. from 1985 onward. This approach to singing voice comes from the physiological principles of Bel Canto School of Singing Voice in Italy. My teacher, Margaret Laughlin Riddleberger, who I trained with from 1979 to 2002, was the inheritor of this body centered approach and which she and I developed further in workshops and body training and exercise for singers. You really cannot be taught to sing! Singing is a natural aspect of the human expression system and is the same essential physiological process as speaking. In this approach, we discover that most of us are doing something unnatural when we begin to sing and this prevents true emotion and authentic communication from being transmitted to our audience. I work with professionals and those who are serious students who have clear goals of singing in front of audiences. Everyone who works with me must be working on a one-person show and perform it for a live audience.