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This book provides an essential guideline for phoniatricians, ENT specialists, speech and voice therapists, vocal coaches, singing teachers, choir conductors, actors and singers, and everyone who is involved with phenomenon of the voice.
Hugo Lycke has worked as vocal coach and speech and voice therapist for many European music conservatoires and opera and musical theatre companies. He specialized in casting and testing, education and voice therapy, and obtained Master’s degrees in Leisure Studies, Theatre Sciences, Dance Research, and Gerontology from the Free University of Brussels. Intrigued by the need for an objective method of voice classification in singers, he wrote his doctoral thesis at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, proving for the first time the existence of three natural voice groups for each gender. He has presented his new methodology of voice classification at more than 100 conferences, seminars, and workshops in different countries.