Diana Yampolsky
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Diana Yampolsky is the one of the world's foremost specialists on the topic of the human voice and is the creator of Vocal Science, a unique and truly revolutionary accelerated vocal development technique that is trademarked with the government of Canada. It is a holistic and scientific approach to voice mechanics that enables all singers to reach their full potential in an extremely short period of time. Proven results are guaranteed in 10 hours for beginners and even less for semi-professionals and professionals.
Born in Russia, Diana Yampolsky has dedicated her life to music - its study, and application to performance. Her studies led to the completion of a Bachelor's degree in Music Education specializing in voice and piano at the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) School of Music and the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Music Teachers' College in 1976. While in Russia she was a choir director, a public school music teacher, and a private vocal coach. During her tenure as choir director in Russia, her choir placed first in the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) music competitions.
Since 1980, Diana has been teaching in Toronto, specializing in voice. The Royans Professional Vocal School was opened in 1984 in order to teach her technique to the public. Today, Diana works with aspiring singers and established artists, as well as many fine producers, engineers and managers within the music industry. Through her Vocal Science Immersion Program, Diana regularly instructs clients from around the world.
Diana is also the world's foremost Non-Surgical Voice Repair Specialist. Through her revolutionary vocal technique, special exercises and natural herbal and homeopathic remedies, she can resolve most vocal problems naturally and prevent singers and speakers from having to resort to surgical procedures and pharmaceutical products that often produce unwanted side effects. As a true holistic practitioner, Diana works on the source of the vocal problem, rather than the symptoms.
Ms Yampolsky has been a featured speaker at a number of prominent international music conferences and seminars and has been a contributor to Canadian Musician magazine for over 18 years. She is also celebrated as an Expert Author on EzineArticles.Com and Hitquarters.com and has been highly profiled on various TV and radio stations over the years, as well as in print media, resulting in a number of write ups in respected publications. A complete list can be viewed at http://www.vocalscience.com/publications.html
Diana's long list of students (over 10,000) include achievers such as Lucas Rossi (Rockstar Supernova winner), Brian Melo (Canadian Idol 2007 winner), Raine Maida (Our Lady Peace), Alex Norman (illScarlett), and many more who have achieved international success after their instruction at The Royans Professional Vocal School.
In 2000 Diana released her first book, Vocal Science - Flight to the Universe (published by Mayfair Music Publications).
Diana is also president of 4 a.m. Talent Development and Artist Management Group Inc. Both companies are designed to assist even the most inexperienced beginners make their way into the music industry, realizing their dreams of becoming top-notch professionals.
For more information, see www.vocalscience.com/royansuniverserecords.
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"Yes, the answer is that unfortunately it does have a lot to do with the conventional vocal coaching or self-inflicted bad vocal habits. The conventional vocal coaching suggests to the artists to drop the jaw down, to stick the stomach out and to drown the voice as low and as deep as possible into one's anatomy..."
One of my friends used to like the expression; "There is no change without change". Usually, it's very much so true, but in the case of working with a professional Artist/Singer, it's not exactly right to the point.
What does Vocal Science(TM) mean and why is it a "Vocal Invention", you may ask. The answer is...
Looking back and assessing our past, as an owner, president and master vocal coach of the company, I have to say that I'm proud of what we achieved over the last three decades. A fair amount of well known singers today in Toronto and some other cities and provinces of Canada, US and Europe, have come out of our school. At the time, we had a pretty bold statement "Beginner to Pro-Singer in 10 Hours, Guaranteed!", and at that time, in the precious past, my clients and I lived up to this statement.
Similarly, when I'm still speaking English, and trying to plead to the music industry professionals, music producers included, they think that I speak Avatarian, whatever that's supposed to mean. They're simply unable to understand why they would need a vocal specialist/vocal expert/vocal producer for God's sake, in the studio with them. Meanwhile, some of those producers who never sang a note themselves ever before, are trying to give instructions to the vocalists how to produce the certain sou
The question is, has the real music gone down to the toilet? Evidently and unfortunately, it might be the case.
I've been teaching vocals forever and close to four decades now. But never have I experienced such difficulty to deliver my Vocal Science method to people who claim that, minimum to say, they want to learn how to sing properly. Simply speaking, in my opinion, they are hardly possessing any vital signs, at least during the first 5 - 6 hours of instruction. My guess is that the people who are in an actual medical coma have more vital signs than my so called up and coming artists. How sad is that?
If to refer to the music business, I can forever elaborate about my experience (vocal consultant expert in studio) working with music producers who were claiming and posing for the great wizards in vocals. I can assure you, being working in studio productions for over 35 years that in 99 and a half per cent of the time, it wasn't the case.
"The Voice" is a new television show, which at a glance seems to have a very commendable purpose. The Judges are trying to find the true vocal talent independently of age, looks, and even performance skills. "WOW!" I first exclaimed! "My prayers were answered" I thought. The whole thing is about the voice and the voice only! Thank God!
In this column, I would like to talk about something human psychology-related. When I speak at Music Conferences, I often make the statement that vocal coaching is not really about working on the voice, it is about working on the mind. I like to think that one reason that I have been successful over the years is that while I did receive a very comprehensive musical education, I have also tried to learn things from other scientific and artistic disciplines and use them to enhance my capabilities
