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 to your location!

SongShine Foundation Music-Based Vocal Therapy Workshops are a great way to get acquainted with the SongShine Music-Based Vocal Therapy method. Experience a workshop: the method, the fun, the creativity, and actually hear positive results in your own voice.

If you would like us to present a workshop in your area please contact: ruthanna@songshineforparkinsons.org or 425-210-3612 

Workshops are team-taught by Dr. Ruthanna Metzgar and Mr. Peter Harris:

Dr. Ruthanna Metzgar

A consummate pro, she is an author, speaker, teacher, professional singer and conductor, and conference presenter. With 40 years as a voice teacher and professional singer, Dr. Metzgar also collaborated for a decade with speech pathologists and otolaryngologists for voice rehabilitation. She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Music (Voice) from the University of Michigan, and a Doctorate in Music (Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice) with Distinguished Honors from the University of Washington.

 

Mr. Peter Harris

He is SongShine’s Director of Speech, Diction, and Drama: in his capable hands, participants’ abilities to speech, act, and imagine take flight. Mr. Harris was trained in the Drama Division of The Julliard School as well as at Broadway’s famed Circle in the Square Theater School. Part of the Original Tour Les Misérables, he spent 20 years as a professional actor. He is the co-trainer with Dr. Metzgar and co-author of the instructor training manual: Brain, Breath, and Emotion – The Resurrection of the Voice.

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