Kelley Hijleh serves on the faculty of the Cali School of Music at Montclair State University teaching studio voice and pedagogy, and also teaches voice at The King’s College in Manhattan. She was previously a member of the voice faculty of Houghton College. Ms. Hijleh holds a BMus and a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Voice Performance. She was selected to participate in the 2000 NATS Intern Program and has served as an adjudicator at NATS district and regional levels. She was mentored in vocal acoustics by Dr. Donald Miller, one of the creators of the voice analysis software, VoceVista, for 15 years, and has been an invited presenter and discussant on VoceVista and vocal acoustics at SUNY-Fredonia, Syracuse University, Illinois State University, The Voice Workshop, at the Voice Pedagogy Summit II in Los Angeles, and with Richard Lissemore at the NATS Eastern Regional Conference. Ms. Hijleh is Associate Director of Administration for the Singing Voice Science Workshop where she has been a main presenter since its inception. In 2021, her article “Realizing the Benefits of SOVTEs: A Reflection on the Research,” co-written by Cory Pinto, was published in the Journal of Singing.

Professor Ihasz earned a Master of Music degree in Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music, along with the prestigious Performer’s Certificate. Since 1992, he has been a member of the voice faculty at the State University of New York at Fredonia where he is Full Professor and former Chair of the Voice Area. In 2013, he was awarded the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Richard Lissemore, an internationally acclaimed educator, researcher, and performer of voice, is equally adept at techniques for classical as well as popular vocal styles such as musical theater, rock, pop, R&B, and jazz. He has taught hundreds of students who perform on Broadway, at Carnegie Hall, at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, in both American and international touring productions and in theaters throughout the world. He is especially well known for his innovative and entertaining master classes in vocal technique and performance, which have been presented regularly in New York, Canada, Korea, Mexico, and Germany. As a guest speaker and clinician, he has taught workshops and masterclasses in voice pedagogy and performance for The Voice Foundation, the National Association of Teachers of Singing, The British Voice Association at London’s Royal Academy of Music, The New York Singing Teachers Association, and multiple colleges, conservatories, and universities.

Educated at The Juilliard School (Oren Brown), Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (Andrew White), and Rutgers University (Valorie Goodall), Mr.Lissemore enjoyed a varied performance career that encompassed opera, music theater, orchestra concert, oratorio, and voiceover for radio and television. His professional affiliations include Actors’ Equity Association, the National Association of Teachers of Singing, The Voice Foundation, and The Acoustical Society of America.
Presently an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Speech Language, Hearing Sciences at Lehman College, he is a Ph.D. candidate in Speech, Language, Hearing at The City University of New York Graduate Center and is expected to defend his dissertation, Articulatory Activity of the Tongue, Jaw, and Lips During the Second Passaggio Acoustic Transition of Female Singers, in the Fall of 2020.

His research interests are centered around articulatory effects on vocal tract transfer functions in professional singers. Experimental protocols include electroglottography, acoustic analysis, ultrasound of the tongue, Optotrak infrared tracking of mouth and head positions. Additionally, he serves as Director of Donald Gray Miller’s Singing Voice Science Workshop, an annual gathering of voice researchers, singing teachers, and speech-language pathologists who continually investigate and evaluate the use of the VoceVista feedback system as a teaching tool in the singing voice studio. Please visit www.RichardLissemore.com and www.SingingVoiceScience.com for more information.

Bodo Maass is the founder and main software developer of Sygyt Software. He first began programming at the age of 11. After studying Cognitive Science (Psychology and Philosophy) at the University of Oxford, he worked on voice based human-machine interfaces for a company called MicroStrategy in Washington D.C. He subsequently returned to Oxford to become the first employee of the newly founded company NaturalMotion, where he was the lead developer for NaturalMotion’s award winning 3D animation software “endorphin”, a commercial product to synthesize human movement based on artificial intelligence research. He discovered Overtone Singing in 1994 and immediately wanted to learn this seemingly impossible art of singing two melodies at the same time. He and his teacher in this method, Wolfgang Saus, talked about the lack of good software to assist teaching overtone singers, and thus “Overtone Analyzer” was born. This work was later expanded to create the next generation of the software “VoceVista” together with the voice scientist Don Miller.