Hello Jonathan, I am studying this whole song cycle and I love your performance with it! Congratulations for getting to perform it with a symphony orchestra. I am a baritone, too, and I admire how easily you shape your high F#'s, G's, and the G# at the end. Are you using head voice for them? Any tips for those high areas? Thank you!
+Drworm89 Hi there, thanks for your interest. It's not head voice, but rather a kind of 'voix mixte' - you need lots of air support under it and reduce the sound to the thin edge of the folds. It takes quite a few years of practice to get it to work properly though! These are tough songs, but a great technical workout/challenge, as well as wonderful music. Good luck with your singing!
Lovely voice. And ridiculously handsome, too!
Hello Jonathan,
I am studying this whole song cycle and I love your performance with it! Congratulations for getting to perform it with a symphony orchestra. I am a baritone, too, and I admire how easily you shape your high F#'s, G's, and the G# at the end. Are you using head voice for them? Any tips for those high areas? Thank you!
+Drworm89 Hi there, thanks for your interest. It's not head voice, but rather a kind of 'voix mixte' - you need lots of air support under it and reduce the sound to the thin edge of the folds. It takes quite a few years of practice to get it to work properly though! These are tough songs, but a great technical workout/challenge, as well as wonderful music. Good luck with your singing!