BELCANTO BALANCING
FREE YOUR VOICE AND DISCOVER YOUR SINGING POTENTIAL WITH THE UNIQUE AND INNOVATIVE VOCAL SYSTEM DEVELOPED BY PROF. SEBASTIAN VITTUCCI
ABOUT BELCANTO BALANCING
Belcanto Balancing is a vocal system developed by Prof. Sebastian Vittucci through many years of teaching experience combined with careful evaluation and research. This system combines the bel canto traditions and the learning principles of both the Feldenkrais Method® as well as the newer bodywork system known as Spiraldynamik®.
A singer can produce his or her voice in many and various ways. Not all of these ways are healthy for the vocal cords. Certain vocal sounds may even damage the vocal cords if continued over a longer period of time. If hoarseness, tiredness, lack of range or loss of volume is being experienced, some technical aspect is out of balance.
The human voice functions according to natural laws which should be respected if one expects to sing well for many years. Belcanto Balancing encourages the singer to discover his or her own individual natural voice and develop it according to these natural laws. If the voice is properly balanced, the vocal tone is free, resonates properly and the singer can sing all appropriate pitches with ease and without using any force or effort.
The “body instrument” is utilized in its most efficient way, allowing for an optimal body – voice connection, a free flowing of energy and the ability to be flexible at all times.
My aim in teaching is to assist anyone to discover their true natural singing voice and develop their individual potential to sing healthfully and expressively. The path to finding one´s own singing potential is full of wonderful satisfaction. Often a remarkable positive personality development takes place while discovering one´s true voice. The releasing of life energies through singing is experienced at very high levels. I have witnessed the most wonderful growth changes in people as they discover their own individual vocal potential. Several of those that I have worked with have become professional singers, winning important international singing competitions and are enjoying great professional performing careers. I am most proud of their many wonderful and continuing successes. The strength of the effectiveness of Belcanto Balancing has been proven again and again. .
Music is an expression of the soul and by discovering one´s own true vocal potential, one can freely express and communicate on the most profound level.
I welcome anyone who feels the urge to discover their true natural voice and develop their singing potential to experience my proven system “Belcanto Balancing”.
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SEBASTIAN VITUCCI
Is currently Professor of Voice Performance at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria.
Born in New York, he performed his first leading roles in drama and musical productions. After graduating magna cum lauda from the Eastman School of Music (studying voice with Yi Kwei Sze, Anna Kaskas and John Maloy) he obtained his Masters Degree in Voice at the University of Michigan (studying with Eva Likova and Stanley Cornett).
Further intensive training for three years in the Lake George Summer Opera Studio with Cynthia Auerbach. He received his Masters Degree in Lied and Oratorio at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (studying with Anton Dermota and Gerhard Kahry). Advanced studies with Carol Blaickner-Mayo, Hilde Zadek, Elena Nicolaidi, Sena Jurinac, Andrea Mellis and Cornelius Reid.
Sebastian Vittucci trained intensively for four years in the Feldenkrais Method® and received his official license as a Practitioner in 1995 by the International Feldenkrais Foundation.
He has performed in all of the major concert halls of Vienna as a soloist with orchestra with well known conductors (Luciano Berio, Lothar Zagrosek) Soloist debut at the Salzburg Music Festival 1985 in the opera “Saint Francois d’Assise” by Olivier Messiaen, with the composer present.
For the past twenty-five years Sebastian Vittucci has been teaching singing in Vienna. Since 1995 he also taught as a Feldenkrais Practitioner. In 1990 he was appointed to the voice teaching faculties of both the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and at the Konservatorium Wien where he developed and taught the course “Feldenkrais® for Singers”. Vittucci was chosen to head the Vocal Studies Program and held this position until 2003 when he was appointed Professor of Voice at the Vienna University for Music and Performing Arts.
From 2010 -2011 he was trained in the system of body efficiency known as Spiraldynamik® receiving his qualification in Level Basic.