Intensive vocal workshop with Joanna Czajkowska | youth 15+ and adults

Vocal workshop is a unique musical meeting, based solely on practice with a minimum of theory – necessary for proper and safe performance of exercises.

It is 5 days of intensive work, but also playing with the voice. Five days of searching and getting closer to your authentic voice through emission exercises, working with the body and breath, releasing blockages, free improvisation. The class program includes:

• daily vocal warm-up
• exercises to strengthen and relax the voice
• circle songs
• individual work with a song and interpretation in the masterclass formula
• multi-voice singing
• exercises to improve style and sense of rhythm
• diction, emission, resonance
• specificity of singing texts in Polish and English
• improvisation
• work with the body and breath.

Working in an intimate group allows you to get to know more closely people with the same passion, expand your repertoire, and above all, develop intensively by stepping firmly (but not forcefully!) out of your comfort zone. We will end the workshop with a small concert by the participants.

For whom:

People over 15 years old (no upper age limit) who want to develop their vocal skills.

When:

Monday through Friday, February 12-16, 2024 from 4:30 pm to 8:00 pm

Fee:

PLN 245. Registration continues until February 5 – order of ticket purchase applies.

Leader:

Asia Czajkowska – singer, songwriter, voice enthusiast, vocal coach, philologist-linguist with over 20 years of experience on stage and 15 years of teaching. She has received scholarships from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, as well as from her hometown of Toruń. Winner of the 40th International Meeting of Jazz Vocalists in Zamosc.

In terms of performance, she is not intimidated by any genre or style of music (except maybe disco polo), she sings and white voice, and classically, from poetic song, through musical and Hasidic songs, to rock, while jazz, soul and blues are closest to her heart.

She has organized and co-lead 4 editions of gospel workshops with the charismatic Jnr Robinson.

She has completed numerous courses and workshops for both vocalists and vocal coaches, as well as a number of one-on-one lessons, where she learned from some of the greatest authorities in singing, interpretation, improvisation, vocal emission and speech therapy – to name a few: Kim Chandler, Mirabai Daniels, Anna Gadt, Sissy Handler, Grzegorz Karnas, Sibel Kose, Sonia Lachowolska, Kevin Mahogany (RIP), Ewelina Mendala-Kwoczek, Wojciech Myrczek, Hubert Noe, Dominika Płonka, Barbara Sambor, Roger Treece, Ingo Titze, Daniel Zangger Borch and many others. He is constantly updating his knowledge and never stops searching.