Linda Brice is the founder and creator of Transformational Voice®. A former professional singer trained and mentored by some of the greatest artists/teachers of the previous generation, she has spent the last 40 years teaching thousands of speakers and singers to overcome their fear in order to free their Authentic Voices; align their voices with their body, mind, heart, and spirit; and use their voices to manifest their life’s purpose and professional mission.
Her broad and deep experience enables her to help classical and non-classical singers of every genre and every level, as well as actors, broadcasters, television anchors, professional speakers, courtroom lawyers and judges, executives, consultants, activists, and professionals who speak English as a second language. In her work with organizations and leaders, her client list spans a wide variety of industries from NPR broadcasters to Fortune 500 companies, from small businesses to non-profit organizations, and from politicians to spiritual leaders. Linda also continues to teach singing to a select number of performers across styles and genres, many of whom are singing professionally throughout the world.
Linda holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in voice performance from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, pursued a Ph.D. in systematic musicology at UCLA, and holds certificates in French language and French art song interpretation from the Institute Internationale d’Été de Nice. She has taught voice and diction at the university level (beginning her career teaching voice at the Indiana University School of Music), but preferred teaching in a private setting where the holistic needs of the student could be the primary focus.
After singing professionally in her 20’s and while pursuing doctoral studies, Linda designed some of the first computer-assisted instruction in music theory while directing an artificial intelligence research project for IBM-Los Angeles Scientific Center. This work tightened up her analytic skills and systematized her thinking. It also led to numerous public speaking opportunities at technical and academic conferences worldwide, many publications of the work, and opportunities to serve on the Editorial Board of the Journal for Computers and the Humanities, as well as founding and organizing the First and Second International Conference of Artificial Intelligence and Music. This led to numerous public speaking opportunities at technical and academic conferences worldwide, many publications of the work, and opportunities to serve on the Editorial Board of Journal for Computers and the Humanities, as well as founding and organizing the First and Second International Conference of Music and Artificial Intelligence.
Linda founded the Transformational Voice® Training Institute, LLC (TVTI) in Portland, Oregon in 2009, and the non-profit 501(c)3, Transformational Voice® Institute (TVI) in 2011 (dissolved in 2013). As part of TVTI, Linda founded the Transformational Voice® Teacher Apprenticeship Program, which has graduated 42 students trained in the Transformational Voice® system. Many of them are now successful professional voice teachers or have integrated Transformational Voice® into their own healing and transformational practices.
When not teaching, Linda enjoys spending time with her partner, organ builder and sound healer Frans Bosman; her dog Ganesh, an Indian Pariah Hound who was rescued off the streets of New Delhi; and the family cat Forrest, who is Director of Rodent Control. They live in the Columbia River Gorge above the town of Mosier on 14 quiet acres. A self-professed “desert mystic,” she is a lifelong lover of wilderness and loves to camp, backpack, and hike/meditate, especially in the canyon country of the Colorado Plateau whenever opportunity allows. She is also a science geek and can often be found poking around in journals on the subjects of archeology, paleontology, astronomy, geology, or climate science. And yes, history, politics, and ethics—especially these days!
Largely influenced by centuries of Italian Operatic tradition, the principles, techniques, and methodologies of the Transformational Voice® Technique are all inputs into the mind, body, heart, and soul of the speaker. The output is confident, clear, authentic, powerful speech and free, resonant and emotionally riveting singing.
Vocalism, and language, utilizes the body as its vehicle to produce sound. In some way, the voice is a perfect mirror to the inner nature and temperament of the speaker. A voice that is free and alive is a reflection of an internal journey of finding one’s authentic and true nature.
The system used is a synthesis of many approaches and disciplines - a fusion of western singing tradition and eastern meditative practices. In the cross-roads of organic and gentle spirituality are the crucial breath-based meditative skills necessary to enable a client to speak freely and transcend performance anxiety. The system is logical, sequential, learnable, and teachable - which makes it easily transferable and understandable for individuals from any walk of life.
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