What are YOUR responsibilities?, your goals?, your reasons for choosing to sing? Be ready to “dive in” and try new ideas. TK Master Class from October 1, 2018
What is your responsibility in a voice lesson? (The car is there just to get your attention – I owned it for over 47 years!)
The following directives are FOR YOU. Read each one. Let them soak in.
Which ones SPEAK TO YOU AT THIS MOMENT?
Come to your lesson with a specific agenda. Don’t be afraid of trying something new in the way of making sound. No one expects you to be perfect the first time out.
Never give your power away. Experience is almost always the best teacher.
Trust your own instincts. You are in charge of your own life. If you don’t run your own life, someone or something else will. You are unique. There will never be another talent or voice like yours to be heard or experienced by others, so with the help of your teacher, decide how to connect to your voice. Share it in performance. Discover who you are at your very core. Express that to the world through your voice.
Risk being who you are and ask for what you want. Believe you can have it and then be ready to receive it.
It works!
College professor visits Seymour High School choral department
By Zach Spicer – Eleven pieces of paper were taped to the walls around the Seymour High School choir room. The messages included
“Random acts of kindness,” “Move, soar, sail,” “Just do it,” “No one can make you feel inferior without consent,” “How you do anything is how you do everything” “and “Positive attitude, charge ahead, enjoy yourself.”
Remember these sayings! especially “How you do anything is how you do everything!”
These were among the thoughts Thomas King, assistant professor of music at DePauw University in Greencastle, shared while talking about vocal technique with three different choirs.
King’s hope is that the students apply those thoughts to music and life.
“It’s so that they realize that each one of them is an individual and needs to start at this point and go somewhere with it,” he said. “And if it’s not in music, that’s OK, too. It’s just in life.”
King has an extensive background in music education and performing. He has given voice lessons since 1970, and he taught high school choirs for 11 years. He’s now in his 28th year of teaching at the collegiate level. Also on his résumé are several operas and musicals.
Read the full story in Wednesday’s Tribune and online at tribtown.com.
***November coming soon!! Prince Escalus in “Star-Cross’d Lovers” by Don Freund. (a version of Romeo and Juliet)
*September SAI Matinée Musicale Recital at Trinity Episcopal Church, Bloomington, IN
**2019-2020 ONGOING Singing “Lion,” in Mooch the Magnificent by Lauren Bernofsky for “Reimagining Opera for Kids” (5 performances so far)
*March *Judged AllTech Competition (12th year in a row), University of Kentucky, March 10, 2019, Lexington, KY
*Sang Solo for Trinity Episcopal Church Pops concert, February, 2019, Bloomington, IN
*Sang 11 performances with “Reimagining Opera for Kids,” in “The Lunchbox Project” as Malcolm, the PB&J loving fourth grader! September 2018- April 2019
2018
*Sang Tenor Solos in Mozart Vespers, Volunteer State Community College, Nashville, TN, April 22, 2018
*Gave Master Class, Oakwood University, March 26, 2018, Huntsville, AL,
*Sang solos in Handel-Messiah, Easter portion Bloomington Chamber Singers, March 18, 2018, Bloomington, IN
*Judged AllTech Competition (11th year in a row), University of Kentucky, March 11, 2018, Lexington, KY
*Sang Solo for Trinity Episcopal Church Pops concert, February 12, 2018, Bloomington, IN
2017
*Trip to Berlin, Germany to strengthen German skills for “German Diction” class at DePauw, Decem. 26, 2017 – Jan. 5, 2018
*Solo Haus Konzert, featured six historical keyboard instruments accompanying me, Bloomington, IN, December 22, 2017
*Sang solo in Handel-Messiah, Christmas portion Bloomington Chamber Singers, December 17, 2017, Bloomington, IN
*Led Christmas Carol Sing, Friday Musicale, Belle Trace Retirement Home, Bloomington, IN, December 7, 2017
*Tenor section leader, Bloomington Chamber Singers, Feast on Bach, Bloomington, IN, December 3, 2017
*Took part in several Christmas Carol “Sings,” at Indiana University, Meadowood Retirement Home, Oliver Winery, Bloom Magazine, November 14, December 8, 12, 19, 2017
*Thomas King and Vicki King performed Schubert Songs, Mascagni, Santiago, Grieg Ave Marias for Sigma Alpha Iota Musicale, September 24, 2017, Bloomington, IN
*Command Performance, on a bus tour in Alaska, August 8, 2017
*Promoted two year graduate of Vocal Arts at DePauw, Dexter Griffin, in his debut solo recital, Bloomington, IN, July 22, 2017
*Thomas and Vicki King performed The Call Ralph Vaughan Williams, Trinity Episcopal Church, Gatlinburg, TN, June 4, 2017
*Judge for AllTech competition (tenth year in a row), University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, March 5, 2017
*Sang Solo at Pops Concert, Trinity Episcopal Church, Bloomington, IN February 5, 2017
2016
TK and Vicki King performed guest faculty recital, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, November 14, 2016
Led workshop for performance anxiety, excellence in performing, choral music tips, Seymour High School, Seymour, IN November 2016
TK — Performance Anxiety workshop, DePauw University July 21, 2016, Greencastle, IN *PARTICIPANTS- See “Stage Fright” heading on my web site. Go to it for review of the activities we did. Contact me as needed. I want YOU to be the best and most confident performer you can possibly be!
Attend our faculty recital MONDAY, November 14, 2016 at 7:30 p. m. at DePauw University, Thompson Recital Hall.
We will offer: Art songs by Purcell, Schubert, Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Fauré and John Duke —Broadway show tunes by Kurt Weill and Frederick Loewe —Arias by Johann Strauss, Douglas Moore, Bedrich Smetana, George Gershwin
We promise a “fun” time will be had by all. I sang many funny roles on stage over my 45 year career and will offer some selections from those roles.
To those add the beautiful, lyrical melodies of Fauré, the stately songs of Purcell and the deeply moving songs of Franz Schubert, Clara and Robert Schumann.
DePauw is celebrating Kurt Weill this season with “Street Scene,” in February and I will add to that celebration with “September Song,” reminding myself of the long years I have lived.
Drs. Vicki and Thomas King performed at DePauw University School of Music on February 1, 2016. Thomas has been teaching there since Fall of 2015 and will continue this spring and the entire school year of 2016-2017. The Kings have been performing together since they met in graduate school at Indiana University in 1968.
Among the repertoire for the recital are songs by Indiana composers, Ned Rorem and David Baker. Also included are three DePauw premiers, songs by Al Benner and a song by Libby Larsen, commissioned by Dr. Vicki King for her husband on the occasion of his 65th birthday.
I was engaged to teach voice at the prestigious Jacobs School of Music,Indiana University-Bloomington, for the SPRING semester of 2015 and I continued for FALL 2015, SPR 2016, SPR 2017, SPR and FALL 2018. I was Visiting Professor of Voice, substituting for three different voice professors on sabbatical and on performance leaves. To be teaching at my own alma mater (from 1968-70) was thrilling indeed.
FALL of 2015 I taught Vocal Literature and German Diction for Singers at DePauw University School of Music and in SPR 2016, I taught Vocal Literature and French Diction. In FALL 2016 and SPR 2017, I taught the same courses AND a few private voice students as well. FALL of 2017 and SPR 2018 I taught German Diction, then French Diction, all at DePauw University.
Tenors Again starring Vicki King, Randall Black, Jeremy Easley & Thomas King
What is your responsibility in a voice lesson? (The car is there just to get your attention – I owned it for over 47 years!)
VISIT Thomas King on YouTube & on the web sites below. Thomas King sings Rote Rose Tenors – Once Again Thomas King Visit the sites below for more of TK’s singing. http://soundcloud.com/joshua-alan-lindsay/sets/of-snow-ice-burning-sand-1?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=facebook&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fjoshua-alan-lindsay%2Fsets%2Fof-snow-ice-burning-sand-1 CHOOSE MOVEMENT 3 “THE GOOD KNIGHT”
Attend our faculty recital MONDAY, November 14, 2016 at 7:30 p. m. at DePauw University, Thompson Recital Hall.
To those add the beautiful, lyrical melodies of Fauré, the stately songs of Purcell and the deeply moving songs of Franz Schubert, Clara and Robert Schumann. 
