International Voice Symposium

CALYP — Paris Vocal Arts Centre organised the second edition of its Voice Symposium: Singing — Medicine — Psychoanalysis on 22, 23 and 24 September 2023, featuring specialist speakers from medicine, the arts and academia.

The holistic approach is the hallmark of CALYP's mission. This consortium gathered for its second edition at Villa Medici Giulini in Milan, during which Adeline Toniutti gave a singing masterclass for the singers of the Adeline Toniutti Academy.

About CALYP

CALYP — Paris Vocal Arts Centre is a non-profit association dedicated to singing education, vocal rehabilitation and the promotion of art. It supports professional singers, including those from the Paris Opera, as well as singers of all levels who wish to reach new goals in building their career and artistic vision.

Programme

Specialist presentations: individual talks and cross-disciplinary discussions.

A concert featuring Paolo Parentini, bass, and Silga Tiruma, soprano, from the Paris Opera, concluded this study day that gave generous space to exchange and dialogue.

The Symposium is intended for singers, people who use their voice extensively or suffer from a vocal pathology, physicians, medical and paramedical professionals, students and researchers.

The Specialists

Dr Jean CHARMOILLE, Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst and Psychologist

After a classical secondary education, Jean Charmoille became a psychologist and then a specialist in psychiatry. This academic approach to the psyche of the speaking being could have been enough for him.

That was before two events shattered this path and propelled him onto another stage. First, a psychoanalysis that opened the way to a new form of knowledge, then the enigma of Don Juan's cry in the finale of Mozart's Don Giovanni, which struck him one day like that of the silence in Munch's Scream.

Jean Charmoille now practises as a psychoanalyst and sings every day.

Adeline TONIUTTI, Vocal Coach and Singer

Adeline Toniutti is a voice expert. She serves as a vocal coach in the continuing education programme for singers at the Paris Opera. She organises many masterclasses with renowned artistic personalities: Bruno Berberes, casting director for The Voice, and Mariella Devia, queen of bel canto.

A lyric singer until 2014, Adeline Toniutti suffered an accident at the height of her career that burned her respiratory tract and severely damaged her vocal cords. She founded CALYP to support singers and people suffering from vocal cord pathologies.

Since 2021, she has been the lead singer of a Freddie Mercury tribute show, touring in New York City and across Europe.

Dr Romain PEROUSE, ENT Surgeon

He trained in 1992 at the Grenoble Faculty of Medicine in otorhinolaryngology and head and neck surgery.

He then trained in phoniatrics and communication pathology in 1995 at the Lyon Faculty of Medicine.

Dr Perouse specialises in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the nose, throat, ear and the head and neck region.

Dr Orietta CALCINONI, ENT Surgeon

A phoniatrist turned ENT surgeon, she is particularly dedicated to voice professionals. She has been collaborating with the Teatro alla Scala since 1987 and became its phoniatrist and ENT specialist in 2009.

She co-founded the Voice & Music Professionals Care Team in 2017, a platform dedicated to research, expert collaboration and the training of young specialists.

In 2022, she became president of the A.I.O.L.P. (Associazione Italiana Otorinolaringoiatri Libero Professionisti).

Dr Bruno COULOMBEAU, Phoniatrician

After obtaining his medical degree, he pursued singing studies and a specialisation in phoniatrics at the Lyon Faculty of Medicine in parallel.

Passionate about the voice, alongside his private phoniatric practice he continues teaching and singing activities.

He is regularly invited to present and share his experience in clinical phoniatrics, particularly concerning the spoken and sung voice.

Among others, he has contributed to several publications including the proceedings of the symposium "Means of investigation and pedagogy of the singing voice" with Guy Cornut.

Also a partner of Dr Romain Perouse, phonosurgeon, he organises a biennial phonosurgery course in Vénissieux.

Jean-Marie LÉGÉ, Osteopath

He learnt singing and music as a chorister at the Maîtrise de Notre-Dame de Paris in the early 1960s.

He began his osteopathic practice in July 1979, with the first graduating class of osteopaths in France.

Since the early 2000s, he has participated in the biodynamic osteopathy working group (Cranial Academy, USA).

He treats singers, actors and professional athletes, among others.