Trans Singer Resources
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Other Resources I've Created:
Gentle Vocal Exercises for Singers on Testosterone is a free, non-range specific video that will help you learn self-massage techniques, breathing exercises, and the benefit of singing long tones, yawn sighs, sirens, and semi-occluded vocal tract exercises including singing through a straw and making cup bubbles. It also includes a brief description of vocal transition and the effects of testosterone on the singing voice.
My Writing:
- Transmasculine People, Testosterone, and Singing: Some Advice
- Creating Gender Liberatory Singing Spaces: A Transgender Voice Teacher's Recommendations for Working With Transgender Singers
Gentle Vocal Exercises for Singers on Testosterone is a free, non-range specific video that will help you learn self-massage techniques, breathing exercises, and the benefit of singing long tones, yawn sighs, sirens, and semi-occluded vocal tract exercises including singing through a straw and making cup bubbles. It also includes a brief description of vocal transition and the effects of testosterone on the singing voice.
My Writing:
- Transmasculine People, Testosterone, and Singing: Some Advice
- Creating Gender Liberatory Singing Spaces: A Transgender Voice Teacher's Recommendations for Working With Transgender Singers
Singing-Related Interviews With Me:
- NPR's All Things Considered: Singer-songwriter teaches trans people how to sing again as their voices change
- CapRadio: Local musician Eli Conley helps trans singers find their voice after going on testosterone
- Rainbow Rodeo: Eli Conley Discusses Singing on T
- Canadian Broadcasting Company Weekend Morning Show (Manitoba): Singing on Testosterone
- Gender Stories Podcast: Searching For What's True with Eli Conley
- Shut Up Songwriters Podcast
- "Sweet Hormony" - VoiceBox Podcast
Classes & Workshops:
- I offer online classes for queer and trans folks and allies, including a 5-week class called Singing on T.
- Intro to Transmasc Voice Masterclasses with trans voice teacher Stephen Davidson of the London Trans Choir
- Vocal Freedom Foundations and Explorations: Community Singing Lessons Centering Trans and Queer Voices with trans voice teacher Orion Johnstone
Other Resources for Singers:
- Singing on Testosterone: A Handout for Vocal Transition by Peter Fullerton
- The 5 Stages of Transgender Voice Change From Testosterone: Slideshow by Peter Fullerton
- Frequently Asked Questions About Transgender Vocal Transition With Testosterone Therapy by Peter Fullerton
- Trans Voice Academy has free videos about shifting your speaking voice as a trans person, and also a video about singing.
- Intro to Transmasc Voice Masterclasses with trans voice teacher Stephen Davidson of the London Trans Choir
- Testosterone and the Trans Male Singing Voice Page on Transguys.com
- Key of T - Research Study, Performance, and Presentation by genderqueer singer and voice teacher Ari Agha and their voice teacher Laura Hynes
- Singing While Female: A narrative study on gender, identity & experience of female voice in cis, transmasculine & non-binary singers by trans voice teacher Felix A Graham
- Resources and Videos from the April 2018 Transgender Voices Festival
(I was scheduled to give a masterclass focused on working with trans masculine singers, but a blizzard ended the festival a day early!)
- One Weird Trick: A User's Guide to Transgender Voice: A book by Liz Jackson Hearns
- Recently Changed Voices and the Missing Octave: This blog post by voice teacher Brian Lee was written about the voices of cisgender boys during puberty, but I find it has relevance to trans masculine folks as well.
- Why Take Low Dose Testosterone? - Blog post by Micah
Resources for Voice Teachers & Speech-Language Pathogists:
- Intro to Transmasc Voice Masterclasses with trans voice teacher Stephen Davidson of the London Trans Choir are open to voice teachers and SLPs
- Online Gender-Affirming Speech and Singing Trainings for Voice Teachers and SLPs by the Voice Lab
- Learn to Teach Trans Speaking Voice Alteration with Trans Voice Teacher Renee Yoxon
- Trans Voice Initiative - Training, Community, and Advocacy by and for Gender Diverse Speech-Language Pathologists
- Working With the Gender Diverse Professional Voice User (video) by Heather Gross
- Nurturing the Voice: Techniques and Exercises that Guide the Voice through a Healthy Transition (powerpoint from the 2018 Transgender Voices Festival) by Lisa Butcher and Anita Kozan
- Welcoming Transgender Singers: Resource List from Chorus America compiled by Ari Agha
- Demystifying trans*+ voice education: The Transgender Singing Voice Conference (journal article)
- Trans voice teacher Peter Fullerton offers consultations for teachers wanting to better support their trans and nonbinary students, especially singers taking testosterone
- Trans voice teacher Kris Koenigin also offers consultations for teachers wanting to better support their trans and nonbinary students, especially singers taking testosterone
- Queering Vocal Pedagogy: A Handbook for Teaching Trans and Genderqueer Singers and Fostering Gender-Affirming Spaces Book by William Sauerland
- The Singing Teacher's Guide to Transgender Voices Book by Liz Jackson Hearns and Brian Kremer