In-house seminars

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Mobile or SMS: +49 163 6237866

Telefone: +49 9856 922604

E-Mail: booking@oberton.org

Overtone Singing Teaching

Would you like to help organize your own workshop in your area? Call me or write me, we’ll discuss the possibilities.

  • Trial course overtone singing
    Duration: Evening, 4 lessons
  • Overtone singing day course for beginners and advanced learners.
    Duration: Day, 8 lessons
  • Intensive overtone singing weekend course for beginners and advanced learners.
    Duration: weekend, 16 lesson
  • Private personal lessons
    Duration: 30, 45 or 60 min., €1,20/minute incl. VAT.
  • Private lessons via Skype
    Units of 15 min., €1,20/minute incl. VAT

One lesson lasts 45 minutes unless otherwise stated.

For schools

  • Fascination of overtones, for pupils.
    Interactive lecture with exercises, improvisations, films and instruments from 5th grade onwards.
    Overtone singing for school choirs.
    Overtones in physics lessons.
  • Voice competence for teachers.
    Practical hearing and speaking voice exercise program about the power of voice. With voice analysis. Often booked in combination with a student program as an introduction.
  • Basics of overtone singing for music teachers.
    Practical introduction to the vocal technique, musical background, possible concepts for school lessons.

For choirs

  • Choral phonetics exercises for choirs and conductors
    Sound and intonation optimization with overtone hearing, application to choral works.
  • Overtone singing for choirs
    Introduction to the vocal technique, application in improvisation and in works.
  • Rehearsing of a composition for overtone choir
    For choirs and conductors with some previous knowledge.
  • Choral phonetics for conductors
    Introduction to choral phonetics and its sustainable application in the choir.

Professional speakers, entrepreneurs, negotiators, managers, teachers

  • The power of the voice
    Voice authority in important moments.
    The sound of the voice reveals a lot, and it manipulates. And it’s easy to control. Unfortunately, this is hardly known, and training is often limited to retoric and classical breathing and voice exercises.
    This training results in a lasting change of your sound messages. And it enables the participants to assess the voice sound of their opponent.

For health care professions

  • Physiological basics of overtone singing. Benefits and experience in therapy.
    For therapists, doctors, speech therapists, voice teachers, singers. With practical exercises and application examples in the group.

Presentations

For musicians, music academies:

  • Lecture “What is overtone singing?”
    Vocal techniques, music ethnology, history, audio samples, interactive spectrographs.
  • Lecture “Overtone singing in the choir”
    Compositions for overtone singing, musical effect of the vocal colour, choral phonetics, ear training, practical application.
  • Lecture “Composing for overtone singing”.
    Possibilities and limitations of the instrument, notation.

For singers, doctors, speech therapists:

  • Lecture “Physiology and acoustics of overtone singing”.
  • Lecture “Overtone singing in therapy”.

General education:

  • Interactive lecture “Overtones – mirror of a universal harmonics”. Overtones in the world, how animals and patients react, sounds of other cultures, effect of speech sounds. Humorous practical exercises.

All presentations are available in German and English.

Concerts

Wolfgang Saus currently appears in the following line-ups:

  • Wolfgang Saus Solo: solo concert with world instruments, meditative.
  • Jerusalem Dream: Classical composition by Nori Jacoby for string quartet, oud, percussion, soprano, Arabic tenor, baritone overtone singer, Khöömej singer.
  • Klangmysterium: Duo Günter Müller – world flutes from 5 continents, Wolfgang Saus – overtone singing, the famous cave concert from the Dechenhöhle and elsewhere.
  • Harmoniverse: Michael Reimann and Wolfgang Saus, overtone singing, piano and strange instruments.

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