keynote speakers
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Johan Sundberg
Johan Sundberg has a personal Chair (Emeritus) in Music Acoustics at the department of Speech Music and Hearing, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He early became interested in the acoustical aspects of music, starting with a doctoral dissertation work on organ pipes. After the dissertation, singing voice and music performance have been his main research topics. He led the music acoustics research group from 1970 to 2001.
As the President of the Music Acoustics Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, Sundberg has been the editor or co-editor of twelve proceedings of public seminars on music acoustic themes arranged in Stockholm.
Sundberg also has extensive experience in performing music. For 24 years he was a member of the Stockholm Bach Choir. He studied singing for Dagmar Gustafson and made his public debut with a Lieder recital on his 50th birthday. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, of the Swedish Acoustical Society, and a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.
Graham Welch
Professor Graham Welch holds the UCL Institute of Education Established Chair of Music Education (since 2001). He is elected Chair of Society for Education, Music, and Psychology Research, the first UK President of the International Society for Music Education, holds and has held Visiting Professorships within the UK and overseas, and is a former member of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Review College for Music.
Professor Welch's main areas of expertise lie in musical development and music education across the lifespan, teacher education, the psychology of music, singing and voice science, music in special education, and disability and the wider benefits of music.
Tallinn University covered the transportation and accommodation costs of Graham Welch.
Heidi Christensen
Heidi Christensen is a professor of spoken language technology in the department of computer science at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. Her research interests are in the use of speech and language processing in the healthcare domain. Her main research interests are in the areas of recognition of disordered speech, automatic processing of conversations, and the automatic detection and tracking of paralinguistic information such as emotions and general interactional behaviours.
She is a member of the Centre for Assistive Technology and Connected Healthcare (CATCH). She has a PhD degree from Aalborg University Denmark since 2002.
She joined the Speech and Hearing Group and the University of Sheffield in 2000 and has worked on numerous European and UK funded projects. Dr. Christensen is active in the Faculty of Engineering's work on ensuring more women in STEM subjects and was recently featured on the university's Wall of Women.
Matthias Echternach
Matthias Echternach specialises in speech, voice, and hearing disorders in children (formerly phoniatrics and pediatric audiology) at the LMU Klinikum and represents the specialist field of phoniatrics and pediatric audiology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich.
His research interests include the fields of vocal registers, stage fright in singers, and intubation-related vocal fold sequelae. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Voice and Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology.
In addition to solistic activity as a tenor, he is a member of different internationally recognized vocal ensembles such as the Kammerchor Stuttgart.
Jenny Iwarsson
Jenny Iwarsson is an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen in the department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics. Her primary fields of research are the effects of respiratory strategy, lung volume, and body posture on voice and voice qualities and their physiological and acoustical correlates.
Her current research includes topics like “Behavioral learning and habit change in voice therapy”, “Cognitive load of voice therapy carry-over exercises” and “Effects of voice therapy exercises”.
Allan Vurma
Allan Vurma holds a PhD in musicology and works as a professor at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. He has published several scientific articles and teaches courses on vocal methodology and history, acoustics, and hearing psychology.
He graduated with a degree in opera singing and vocal pedagogy. He also holds a Master's Degree in radio engineering. Vurma has won high prizes from both national and international singing competitions. He has worked as a soloist in the professional Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir for many years. He gives voice lessons. Vurma has performed in different opera roles, as well as given solo recitals.
Vurma is the national coordinator of the World-Voice-Day in Estonia and an editorial board member of the journal Musicae Scientiae. More information about his activities is also available here.
SPECIAL GUESTS
Ingo Titze
Ingo R. Titze is a Distinguished Professor of Speech Science and Voice at the University of Iowa and the Executive Director of the National Center for Voice and Speech at the University of Utah. He is educated as a physicist and an electrical engineer. Dr. Titze has published more than 400 articles in scientific journals and now has three books in print. He has lectured throughout the world and appeared on such educational television series as Innovation, Quantum, and Beyond 2000.
His research interests include biomechanics of human tissues, acoustic phonetics, speech science, voice disorders, professional voice, music acoustics, and the computer simulation of voice. He is the father of vocology, a specialty in speech-language pathology. He defined the word as “the science and practice of voice habilitation.”
You can find a great interview with Dr. Titze here.
Markus Hess
Markus M. Hess, MD, works at the voice clinic “MEDICAL VOICE CENTER” in Hamburg, Germany, which he founded in 2014. He is a dedicated otolaryngologist and phoniatrician (speech-language pathology and medicine), subspecializing in laryngology, phonosurgery, and disorders of professional voice users. Dr. Hess brings a multidisciplinary approach to such patients as public speakers, singers, and actors.
He is a founding member of the “German Society of Phonosurgery” and continuously contributes to the voice field as a member of editorial boards, medical journals, and numerous national and international committees. He has authored or co-authored over hundred peer-reviewed articles in professional journals, book chapters, and textbooks.
Prof. Dr. Hess teaches regularly at national and international voice conferences and gives his own courses in cutting-edge phonosurgery techniques.
Kirsten Schötteldreier
Kirsten Schötteldreier studied classical singing at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and has been working as a voice, performance and production coach in all Operahouses around Europe for many years. She works with renowned singers as well as with young talents. She was the leading Coach of the Young Ensemble at the Theater an der Wien for three years and will be "Coach in Residence" for the new opera studio of the Opera de Lyon, in august 2022.
Kirsten has developed an energetically oriented method for singers, which has caused a sensation in recent years and kick-started an international career for herself and many of her coachees. This method is based in addition to traditional vocal techniques such as Bel Canto and Functional Voice Training, to the transformative breathing techniques and combines them with motion sequences from Qigong, a system of coordinated body posture and movement, breathing, and meditation, originated in China more than 5,000 years ago.
Kirsten also works as music-researcher and musical director for productions like, f.e. “Weltatem“ with “Het Geluid“, a VR-Opera, where she could join a team of scientists who developed a VR-experience in which the public learned how to breathe and sing, and where each breath and note was made visible and helped singers to link audio and video in an outrageous way.
Yakubu Karagama
Mr Yakubu Karagama, MBBS, DLO, MSc, FRCS (ORL-HN), PGCertMed, is an international renowned laryngologist based at the Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital in London. He is the lead for the Centre for Voice, Airway and Swallowing Laryngology service at Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Hospital. He is the Founder and Course Director for London and Manchester Phonosurgery course, Laser Laryngeal Course and TNO & Dysphagia Course.
He is keen in voice research and has obtained an MSc in Advance Voice Research at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 2005. He lectured as keynote speaker in several international meetings. He has presented his research and won prizes at National and international conferences, including North of England Otolaryngological Society meeting, Royal Society of Medicine, British Association Conference of Otolaryngologist (BACO).
He has authored and co-authored over 50 publications. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at King’s College University. He was the first the Secretary of the British Laryngological Association. He is a council member at both the British Laryngological Association and British Voice Association.
Teemu Kinnari
Teemu J. Kinnari, MD, PhD, from Helsinki Voice Clinic is Clinical Associate Professor in the University of Helsinki and Head of Laryngology Section of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery in Helsinki University Hospital. He specializes in laryngology and phonosurgery. He is a founding member and former president of the Finnish Society for Laryngology.
Dr. Kinnari has great experience in laryngeal surgery from office-based procedures to endoscopic and open laryngeal framework surgery including over 300 office-based procedures. His repertoire includes vocal cord injections and laser surgery both in local and general anesthesia, phonomicrosurgery, voice feminization, endoscopic tumor surgery.
Dr. Kinnari has PhD degrees from both Helsinki University and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He has authored over 40 research papers in international journals with main interest in laryngology, phonosurgery, biofilm related infections and implant materials. He serves regularly as invited speaker and faculty member in international conferences and work-shops.
Lauri Maisvee
Lauri Maisvee is currently a consultant head & neck surgeon and otolaryngologist in the Private Hospital Fertilitas and Center of Head & Neck Surgery at the North Estonia Medical Centre.
He studied medicine in University of Tartu 1989-1995 and completed his surgical training in the field of Otolaryngology/Head Neck Surgery at the University of Tartu 2004 and is practicing head & neck surgery ever since.
In his clinical practice the main fields of interests include ablative oncological head & neck surgery, reconstructive head & neck surgery, endoscopic microsurgery of upper aerodigestive tract and facial plastic surgery.
Dr Maisvee is a member of Estonian Society of Otolaryngology / Head and Neck Surgery, Estonian Society of Oncology, Estonian Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery.
Dr Maisvee has attended numerous international conferences, training and instructional courses.