Oct 27, 2023 | Singing and Self Blog
They say the only way to eat an elephant (when, metaphorically speaking, you’ve got a LOT on your plate and it seems like you’ll never be able to do it all) is One Bite At A Time. One of the hardest things for my students is time management. Like all of...Sep 22, 2023 | Singing and Self Blog
It’s been a bit of a tricky start to this academic year (understatement). For starters, a colleague died suddenly on the first day of classes, someone who had worked for us for many years, and who worked alongside so many of the students I care for in my opera...Sep 1, 2023 | Singing and Self Blog
Riffing in an improv session at the Shenandoah CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute, July 2023 (photo LD Brown Arts) My blogging has been sporadic: forgive me, dear readers. I have been up to all kinds of new tricks, including riffing, death metal growls, jazz stylings and...Aug 30, 2023 | Performance
On September 14, 2023, Kimberly joins Laurier Faculty of Music colleagues Kevin Day (piano) and Jerzy Kaplanek (violin) for the Faculty Showcase Concert of the great jazz standard, Cry me a river. Microphone included! [photo credit: LD Brown Arts, Larry...Aug 4, 2023 | Singing and Self Blog
Stay in your lane (sourced on Snappa, August 3, 2023) One of the gifts of aging is that we start to see more clearly all the ways in which we are hindered from being our fullest self. Among the most pernicious of society’s constraints is the admonition to...