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Semer teaches voice and gives workshops internationally on the subject of vocal
technique and performance. His main voice studio is in New York. He
teaches regularly also in
Toronto, Paris, Basel, London and throughout Germany. In July-August 2010
he will lead the 14th annual Neil Semer Summer Vocal Institutes in Coesfeld and Aub,
Germany.
His teaching combines the old Italian School of Bel Canto as expounded by
Giovanni Battista Lamperti with scientific understanding of vocal function.
The focus is coordination of the heart, mind and body.
His students sing leading roles in the world's most important
opera houses and star in Broadway productions. In July 2004, he was the keynote
speaker and master teacher for the Australian National Association of Teachers of
Singing (NATS) Convention in Sydney.
Masterclasses given around the world
include the 5th
International Congress of Voice Teachers in Helsinki, the first three Annual
International Classical Singer Conventions, the Royal Academy of Music
and the Association of English Singers and Speakers in London, two National
Conventions of the National Association of German Singing Teachers (Hamburg and
Wurzburg), the Leipzig, Hannover and Wurzburg Hochschule's, Swiss Voice Teachers
Association in Zurich, Australian NATS Chapters in Sydney and Brisbane, Queensland
and Newcastle Conservatoriums,
two Canadian Voice Care Foundation Symposia in Toronto and Banff, NATS
National Convention in Seattle, NATS Winter and Summer Workshops in Miami,
Princeton, Minneapolis and New York, NATS New England, Mid-Atlantic and
Central Regional Conferences, NATS Chapters in San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Wisconsin, Orlando, Salt
Lake City, Michigan and Miami, and innumerable universities.
Faculties have included the Canadian Opera Company, American Institute of
Musical Studies (AIMS) in Austria, New England and Boston Conservatories, New
York University, and Barnard College.
Graduate of Manhattan School of Music.