Name Meribeth Dayme | Role Author | |
Books Dynamics of the Singing V, The Singing Book, The performer's voice, Creating Confidence, Speak with Confidence: A Practic | ||
How to be Become a DYNAMIC Singer | Dr Meribeth Dayme with #DrDan
Meribeth (Bunch) Dayme is an Anglo-American teacher of singing, vocal teacher, author, and founder of the CoreSinging approach to singing.
Contents
- How to be Become a DYNAMIC Singer Dr Meribeth Dayme with DrDan
- Meribeth Dayme
- Early life and education
- Teacher and author
- Later life
- Books by Meribeth Dayme
- References
Meribeth Dayme
Early life and education
Meribeth Bunch studied vocal performance at Salem College, Winston-Salem, North Carolina (1960) and studied for a Masters at Union Theological Seminary, New York, New York. She received her PhD in Music at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
In 1979, she was awarded a National Institutes of Health post-doctoral fellowship to conduct research on the voice at the Royal College of Surgeons of London, London, England.
Teacher and author
Dayme was an instructor teaching Singing in the School of Music and Anatomy in the Dental School at the University of Southern California (1968-1974). While there, she studied singing and pedagogy with William Vennard. In 1974, she began teaching at the University of Delaware, where she had a joint appointment as Associate Professor in the Department of Music and in the School of Life and Health Sciences (1974-1982) Her first book, Dynamics of the Singing Voice, was published in 1982. It became popular for use as text in many university music departments around the world and as a resource for other authors. She wrote The Performer’s Voice, which further established her authority in the field of the singing voice.
In 2004, her book The Singing Book, with co-author C. Vaughn, was published and went on to its 3rd edition, released in February 2014.
Articles by Dayme have been published in refereed professional journals, such as The Journal of Voice, The Journal of Singing, Folia Phoniatrica, and online magazines Operagasm, and The Musical Theatre Magazine.
Later life
In 2004, Dayme moved from London to the French Alps, near Lake Annecy, France. In 2010, she founded Alchemy Programmes Sarl, in Geneva, Switzerland. It is the parent company of CoreSinging.She now lives in Rancho Santa Fe, California.
CoreSinging is an approach to vocal teaching and singing. It incorporates eastern concepts and practices taken from Qigong and Taichi and studies in consciousness, traditional western vocal practices, and Meribeth Dayme’s teaching experience in a holistic and energy-based approach to vocal training, with focus on energy, awareness, imagination, practice, and performance. Dayme now lives in Rancho Santa Fe, California and teaches CoreSinging courses and gives lectures and workshops for schools, organizations and private companies.
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