For Level II Graduates of
LoVetri Institute for Somatic Voicework™ at Baldwin Wallace University

When Science Meets Soul: Soul Ingredients® Methodology
Voice Teacher Training & Artist Development Intensive

Level 1: Intro to Soul Ingredients® July 15-17, 2022
Level 2: Training the Artist, Training the Ensemble July 22-24, 2022

All Classes with be Live on Zoom

Learn voice training methods that will help deepen the authenticity of performance in both yourself and your students. Dr. Trineice takes the science of voice on a deep dive into the musical Soul and applies both to the cultural and stylistic expectations of an individual's chosen genre.

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What is Soul Ingredients® Methodology?

Soul ingredients® Methodology is a systemic pedagogic approach for developing artists performing in folk-based musical styles.  A student-centered methodology, Soul Ingredients® guides singers and instructors in acknowledging, valuing, a further developing the student’s unique voice. Singers and instructors learn how to take their personal experiences, musical influences, and models, and execute the various components in a personal manner to form the singer/performer's unique expression. This methodology is a strategic combination of science-based voice pedagogy, applied pedagogy, and musical training strategies and performance perspectives used in oral music teaching tradition of African American folk-based music styles (i.e., jazz, gospel, R&B, blues, etc.).
 
Through Soul Ingredients® Methodology, participants will acquire specific strategies, techniques, and tools for developing artists from the inside out by exploring the Soul Ingredients® pedagogic framework (Anatomical Awareness, Voice Conditioning, Style Conditioning, and Song Interpretation). Participants will learn creative ways of applying vocal techniques to the individual's specific stylistic and physiological needs with a personalized approach to voice training designed to nurture healthy, effective, and authentic artists in their chosen genres.

Soul Ingredients® Methodology helps singers to:

• Develop their Sound
• Develop their Style
• Nurture the soul by sharing their stories

When Science Meets Soul Level I & Level II

When Science Meets Soul: Soul ingredients® Methodology Level I and II are 3-day intensive courses that introduce professional voice users, teachers, and SLP to a vocabulary for teaching music and working with singers and musical styles rooted in, and influenced by, African American folk-based music styles and music traditions. Each day presents a focused area in Soul Ingredients® Methodology: Developing the Sound, Developing the Style, Developing the Story.

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When Science Meets Soul: Level I
Introduction to Soul Ingredients® Methodology 

Level I takes the participants on journey through which they learn Soul Ingredients® approach by experiencing the development process for themselves. First, we will revisit vocal anatomy topics and explore strategies to personalize vocal development, and then we will follow a series of tools to organize and develop Style and Story.

• Day 1-Developing the Sound
  
  • Voice Technique: Helping students to develop their natural, emotive sounds in a manner that is sustainable and flexible. Guiding students to acquire the appropriate technique for their instrument and perception.
    
• Day 2- Developing the Style
  
  • Style Vocabulary, Cultural Context, Cultural Viability: Understanding and implementation
    
• Day 3- Developing the Story
  
  • Storytelling: Musically articulating personality, personal expression, and experience
    

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When Science Meets Soul: Level II 
Developing the Artist, Developing the Ensemble
 
When Science Meets Soul Level II provides next-level strategies for developing authentic creative vocal artists. Using the Soul Ingredients® Method, teachers and singers learn to use a customizable framework that identifies parameters of excellence that are both unique for each student yet culturally viable for the style the artist performs. Fostering next-level performers, When Science Meets Soul Level II explores the voice, the sound, and the story from the perspective of intermediate to advanced level singers and creative musical artists.

Level II: will focus on artist development and ensemble development. In addition to lectures by Dr. Trineice, Level II will also include guest lectures, providing participants with specific tools to use in artistry, ensemble, and classroom.

• Developing the sound: recognizing, developing, and sustaining the various sounds of emotion.
  • Conditioning the singers’ emotional self
  • Vocal Registration from an emotional perspective
• Developing style and pedagogy for solo singing:
  • Organization of style tendencies/characteristics in solo singing for gospel, jazz, and R&B
  • Strategies for development and integration of personal expression
    
• Developing style and pedagogy for Ensemble or Background singing:
  • Organization of style tendencies/characteristics in ensemble/background singing for gospel, jazz, and R&B
  • Strategies for working with choir
  • Strategies for working with background singers
  • Strategies for recording ones own background voices
• Developing the story, commanding the space:
  • Articulation and interpretation
  • Visual dynamic and impact on storytelling
  • Beyond Effective Communication: Are you compelling?

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Level II Guest Lectures:

 Kaylé Brecher

Soul Ingredients® Educator, Special Lecture

“The Courage to Perform: Weaving Complete Musical Fabric in Space, Spirit, and Partnership”

 Kaylé Brecher is an award-winning jazz vocalist, composer, lyricist, arranger, and master educator with more than thirty year’s experience. Her varied and active career has included concerts, festivals, live radio performances, a TV documentary soundtrack, clubs and other fine venues, studio production work and nine acclaimed recordings. 'Kayleidoscope', Kaylé's eighth CD was released in January 2020 and 'Bredux: collected edges' is her ninth recording, released in early June 2021.

Dr. Lenora Helm Hammonds

Special Guest Lecture

“Theory to Practice: Developing a Bandstand Game Plan”

Professionally known as Lenora Zenzalai Helm, Dr. Helm Hammons serves as the Director of Graduate Studies at North Carolina Central University. She is a scholar, composer, arranger, jazz clinician, vocal musicianship coach. With six solo recordings. Hammonds has toured, recorded, and performed with her various groups, on international jazz stages, venues and festivals, as well as featured guest artist with renowned jazz icons.

Alison Crockett

Special Guest Lecture

“Rhythm & Improvisation: Conversation in Context”

Alison Crockett is an award winning and prolific Jazz, soul, and electronica vocalist and has been featured on dozens of recordings. As a vocalist and educator for decades has created a program/performance that seeks to educate and include singers of all ages and generations in the joy of singing Vocal Jazz.

Dr. Trineice Robinson-Martin

Founder and Creator of Soul Ingredients® Methodology

In addition to her book "So You Want to Singing Gospel," she has contributed chapters to several textbooks and scholarly writings on the tops of voice and Black music history. In addition to these books, Robinson-Martin's published work can also be found in Downbeat Magazine, New York Times, Journal of Singing, Journal of Voice, and Voice and Speech.
As a performer, New York Music Daily praised Robinson as "an individualist who defies categorization: there's the immediacy of classic soul music here, coupled to jazz sophistication, gospel rapture and fervor." Whether touring with Peabo Bryson and Leela James in the Standing in Shadows of Motown Live, being a featured soloist with Erie Philharmonic Orchestra, creating vocal tracks for Nnenna Freelon's Grammy Nominated Album "Time Traveler," or performing with her jazz quartet, Dr. Trineice loves to perform good music, and inspire others to be their best self.