Introducing New Board Directors

AMELIA ROLLINGS

PAVA President-Elect

Hello PAVA colleagues and friends! I am excited to serve the PAVA membership in the role of presidentelect after previously serving as membership director and as a member and co-chair of the PAVA Credentialing/ Specialization Committee from 2017–20. I have been a proud member of PAVA since 2015 and truly value the mission, vision, and goals of our organization. I am passionate and eager to get to work as we aim to creatively advance our organization and vocology. of voice and voice pedagogy at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. I live only one mile from the beautiful Myrtle Beach shore with my husband Eric and two adorable pups, Henri and Coco. I earned a Ph.D. in voice pedagogy from The University of Kansas and an M.M. in voice performance and pedagogy from The Pennsylvania State University.

When I’ m not dodging golf carts, I am most likely teaching, yodeling, reading, drinking coffee, learning something new, or exploring all things voice. My primary research interests include small and large group voice teaching, contemporary commercial music voice pedagogy, historical voice teacher certification and education, and the effects of shoe heel heights, head position, and jaw opening on acoustic and perceptual measures of singing.

I enjoyed seeing many of you at the recent symposium in Minneapolis and look forward to connecting with many more of you at future hybrid PAVA events. Please reach out if you have ideas, questions, or if I can help in any way. Go PAVA!

BETH FALCONE

PAVA Communications Director

As I step into my new role as Communications Director, first off, hats off to Amanda Flynn and the Communications Committee for their extraordinary work over these past three years. I have big shoes to fill.

Communications Director, to me, is about listening, amplifying the passionate voices of PAVA, and expanding accessibility to those voices. I am committed to our various communications coming out in English, Spanish and Portuguese, our events having interpreters, and over the next three years, my goal is to have a new website that will be a more accessible home base for all of us.That last part will take a while, so, in the meantime, we have two new tabs at PAVAVocology.org for you to visit to stay up to date:

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This is a lot, as you can imagine! No one can achieve this alone. I am grateful to have Crystal Lau, our new Communications Manager, Paul Patinka, our new Operations Manager, and two new communication subcommittees to support this work. Social Media Subcommittee, expertly led by Libert Garcia and Mae Coro

From our Mexico Chapter. With their expertise, we plan to expand our social media globally! Translations Team: led by Mae Coro, Maíra Jaber, Vanne Merino, and Daniela Longaray. Want to participate and help put the Pan in PAVA? Email me at Communications@PAVAVocology.org, and we'll get you to the right place!

A little about me—very little, because no one has time to read anymore. ;-) My path has been a winding one, both as a performer and as a teaching artist. I am a pianist first, and I caught the bug for voice while playing for others' voice lessons. My parents met in an opera workshop in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and I was the house pianist for a reason. When it came to singing, I was terrible. :-) But I learned that voices could change, that they weren ’t stagnant, and that fascinated me. My interest in Vocology, before I knew it was called that, started when I met Oren Brown (Discover Your Voice). I loved his premises: "discover what your voice can do for you vs. what you can make your voice do, " and "less is more. " I had the great fortune to study with him for a couple of years and to play for his studio in New York City. Oren's workshop in Utah (1999) led me to Ingo Titze, Brad Story, Daniel Boone, Dr. Bob Bastien, Leon Thurman, and the VoiceCare Network. My mind was blown, and I was hooked for life. It was Leon that led me to PAVA. I count my lucky stars that I was at that first Symposium in Greensboro. I was so warmly welcomed. All anyone seemed to care about was my hunger to learn. Since I'm not very good at science, I like to invent creative ways to teach it to myself and then do my best to translate that into the classroom. I am tremendously grateful for the patience the experts among us have shown me.

I look forward to listening and to amplifying your voices. I'm honored to be here. Reach out any time. Thank you for having me as your PAVA Communications Director!

LYNN MAXFIELD

Western Region Governor

I am so pleased and grateful for the opportunity to be joining the PAVA Board of directors as the Western Region Governor. I served as the association ’ s financial officer and treasurer in its fledgling years and it has been so fun to return to meetings and witness just how much growth has been achieved by the hardworking officers and members over the past few years. From efforts to support local chapters, to hiring administrative staff, to the rollout of the flagship PAVA-RV program, it is immensely exciting to see PAVA with the full wind in its sails!

By way of introduction, I currently serve as the Director of the Utah

Center for Vocology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, home of the Summer Vocology Institute. I also hold a career-line appointment as an Assistant Professor, Lecturer in the School of Music here and work as the contracted voice coach for the University of Utah Voice Disorders Center. Vocology as the “ science and practice of voice habilitation ” is at the heart of all that I do professionally, and my heart has belonged to voice study since, in 7th grade, I auditioned for and landed the role of Major General Stanley in our middle-school’ s production of the Pirates of Penzance. I grew up in rural southern Idaho, the youngest of 7 children in a home filled with an eclectic mix of music from Air Supply, The Carpenters, the Ramones, Garth Brooks, and the Beastie Boys, to Tchaikovsky, Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven. With so many older siblings, at least one radio was always on and I fell in love with the range of emotions that music could express, but it wasn ’t until that first adventure with Gilbert and Sullivan ’ s raucous band of pirates and bumbling policemen, that I found my place as an artist. Today, while I am not on stage nearly as often, enabling and empowering expressive, free, and versatile communication remains the driving force behind my work. I look forward to what I can bring to and learn from the Pan American Vocology Association in the coming years.

CARLOS MANZANO

Latin American Region Governor

I am Carlos Manzano, a Phoniatrician from Mexico and I was elected to be Governor of Latin America for PAVA in the last elections.

First of all, I would like to explain to you what Phoniatrics is and how to become a Phoniatrician. It is important to mention that the medical specialty of Phoniatrics is found in very few countries in the world and Mexico has the happiness that for 50 years it has trained Phoniatricians annually. I began my training studying medicine for 7 years at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) in Mexico and later the specialty of Phoniatrics for 4 years at the National Institute of Rehabilitation endorsed by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Therefore, Phoniatrics in Mexico is the medical specialty that is responsible for the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of voice problems.

I am currently an MD, an MS, and Phoniatrician in Mexico City privately where I mainly attend to professional voice patients such as singers, actors, and other professionals, I also have the joy of being the President of the Mexico chapter of The Voice Foundation for 2 years where I have had the opportunity to organize academic events related to voice.

My passion for the voice started in my childhood with formal musical education as a singer and as a pianist. For some years I also ventured into composition classes. At the moment he continued taking classes for periods and I continue to sing in an amateur way on an occasional basis. I like all musical genres so I enjoy listening to music and going to concerts, I love listening to new sounds from different cultures around the world.

In 2021 I had the opportunity to attend and get certified in the Summer Vocology Intensive at the University of Utah with Dr. Ingo Titze and his fascinating team of teachers, in that summer I had the joy of meeting

different professionals from different disciplines and various countries that brought us unites the same passion for the study of the voice.

I have a master's degree in Medical Sciences from UNAM. My line of research is acoustic, electroglottographic, and aerodynamic voice analysis in singers. In the teaching part, I have the happiness of receiving residents of Phoniatrics every year for a few months to observe my clinical activities as a Phoniatrician. I also continuously give conferences related to voice issues in Mexico and Latin America at different congresses.

It is a great honor and a great joy to serve as governor of PAVA during this period and continue to strengthen the development of Vocology in Latin America. I once dreamed of combining Medicine with Art and I am achieving this dream. Many greetings from Mexico.

Extending our warmest welcome to Amelia Rollings, Beth Falcone, Lynn Maxfield and Carlos Manzano as our new Board Directors! We look forward to seeing where your leadership takes us!

To contact our new Board Directors, please reach them via email:

Amelia Rollings

pre-past-pres@pavavocology.org

Beth Falcone

communications@ pavavocology.org

Lynn Maxfield

western@pavavocology.org

Carlos Manzano

latinamerica@pavavocology.org