The Essentials of Beautiful Singing: A Three-Step Kinesthetic Approach

In her three-step approach, Karen Bauer integrates fact and application in a logical order, step by step, taking the mystery out of singing by approaching it as a trainable and reliable kinesthetic experience. Through the use of short verbal prompts and guided exercises, The Essentials of Beautiful Singing offers tools singers need to intentionally facilitate the functions of good breath management, free resonance, and clear enunciation as generators of beautiful singing.

Karen Tillotson Bauer has spent more than thirty years teaching singing in the voice studio, in pedagogy classes, and in choral settings for undergraduate and graduate students. She has taught numerous master classes in the United States and abroad, most recently at the University of London, England. She has taught voice and staged opera for the Opera Festival di Roma, Italy, as well as at North Park University in Chicago, where she is director of the Master of Music in Vocal Performance. Bauer’s passion for teaching professionally bound singers and training future voice teachers has led to this unique three-step approach to singing.