Autor: Laura Stavinoha

My name is Laura Stavinoha, and at the moment I work as a musician, performer, writer, producer and coach, with the voice at center. I have a university master“s degree in musicology, a minor in private law and I am trained as a classical singer. After my education, I took on various professional identities: project manager, business manager, copywriter and booking agent for a voice agency. All these previous experiences turned out to be the perfect preparation for what I love doing most: coaching people with their voice, and expressing my own creativity through making music.As a vocalist, I“ve been involved in many styles: from classical to house music and from experimental to my own pop songs. In recent years I have performed a lot abroad, and released several EPs with my own compositions, which you can find on www.laurastavinoha.com. With my live looping program I have played several concert tours through Mexico and California. For years, I have studied the spoken and unspoken rules of various music styles and singing traditions, to conclude that I no longer want to conform to certain styles or singing traditions. For myself ánd for the people I coach, I aspire for an authentic, intuitive speaking or singing voice that communicates from the heart.As a voice coach, I not only have a lot of knowledge about the voice as an instrument, but I also use behavioral therapy and personality theories to put voice coaching in a broader context. The voice is one of the most direct ways to to communicate and to express yourself creatively and emotionally. Genuinely connecting with others gives me a lot of energy. I experience working with people from this same principle as creative and meaningful. Creating awareness and connection through the voice; that is what I want to contribute to this world. More on my work as a voice coach you can find at www.useyourvoice.nl