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Nestor Kornblum and Michêle Averard (performing together)
Nestor Kornblum ( South Africa ) is a co-director and co-founder of the Association of Sound Therapy ( Spain ), and the International Association of Sound Therapy (I.A.S.T.). He is a sound therapist and overtone singer of international repute, today working and conducting courses in 11 countries on 3 continents. He has been interviewed numerous times on TV, radio and in the press, and has written articles both in English and Spanish on sound as a healing modality. Together with his wife and partner in sound Michêle Averard he has published several CDs of music for healing, meditation and relaxation. His new instruction book with CD, Overtone Chant: the Practical Guide has just recently been published, and contains clear exercises and text in 6 languages for learning these vocal techniques. Nestor is able, employing a variety of techniques for amplifying the harmonics or pure frequencies within the voice, to sing two, three or even 4 simultaneous sounds, with a span of 5 octaves. This knowledge has enabled him to give master classes on vocal harmonics at several universities. He has performed concerts together with Michêle in Sacred Music festivals, festivals devoted to the Healing Arts, Cathedrals and even World Music festivals. H.H. Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have been among members of their audience. Nestor has had the rare honour of performing “Deep Voice” chanting with Tibetan Lamas, and has also performed with the Xhosa Women's Ensemble (S.Africa), the only group to perform Ngqokolo deep voice overtone chant. He plays didgeridoo, Jew's harp, overtone flute, overtone mouthbow, tampura, monochord and various percussion instruments
He presently lives in Spain with his family, where he and Michêle have constructed a large Sound Dome in which many of their workshops are conducted. |
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Michêle Averard
Co-director and co-founder of both the Association of Sound Therapy ( Spain ) and the International Ass. of Sound Therapy, she is an internationally recognised Sound Therapist, overtone singer and singer/songwriter. She is a talented performer, with a gift for captivating audiences, and a charismatic workshop leader.
Michêle has conducted courses in Healing Sound and workshops for women in South Africa , UK , Belgium , Sweden and Spain , mainly in “The Dome” at her home on the Costa Blanca. She also offers individual healing sessions with Tibetan singing bowls and other instruments. She is probably the only Westerner to have given a treatment of Sound healing with Tibetan singing bowls to a Tibetan monk
Michêle plays guitar, tampura, monochord, koto, Native American flute, Tibetan Bowls and other acoustic instruments. |
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Michael Ormiston and Candida Valentino (performing together)
Michael Ormiston is probably Europe 's foremost Mongolian Khöömii (overtone) singer, and is also an accomplished multi-instrumentalist. Michael traveled to Chandman, Sum, in western Mongolia in 1993 where he studied with khöömii master Tserendaava in his ger (yurt), and with other Mongolian masters Tsengedorj, Gereltsogt and Ganbold, all now well known in the West. He was blessed by Gereltsogt to teach the basics of khöömii in 1994 and since then has been teaching and performing overtone singing around the world. |
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Candida Valentino originally trained as a visual artist. She currently works as a Chavutti Thirumal Massage Therapist, Overtone singer and Tibetan Singing Bowl practitioner. She uses healing sounds both in individual sessions as well as in concerts in the U.K. and Europe . She is one of very few women able to sing the “Deep Voice” khöömii technique, known most popularly by the Tuvan name ‘kargyraa' which enables a singer to sing 3 or even 4 simultaneous sounds.
Michael and Candida perform together worldwide and run workshops on Mongolian Overtone singing, relaxation and meditation using Tibetan bowls, gongs and sound transformations.
They have published CDs individually and jointly such as “The Winds of Heaven” (Michael), “Tone Magic”(Michael and Candida) and “Life After Life” (Candida )
Ormi_khoomii@yahoo.com Telf: 00 44 (0) 20 8558 6982
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Rollin Rachele
A pioneer in the field of Overtone singing in the West, Rollin is a talented singer, performer and teacher.
He discovered Overtone singing in 1979 at Oregon State University , when he first heard a recording of Mongolian Khöömii, aged just 17 years old. He became a self-taught overtone singer, having spent months figuring out the techniques for himself. He spent many years in Amsterdam where besides teaching overtone singing he studied Indian Classical singing (Raga) with Ustad Mohammed Sayeed Khan. He has mastered many singing styles including Barbershop, ancient Polyphonic singing and Gregorian Chant. He has also conducted several choirs. He is author of the first Overtone Singing Study Guide book with exercise CD, which was published in Dutch in 1989, and in English in 1995. He has also published 3 CDs of explorations in Overtone singing. Both on CD and in live performances he sings ragas, Gregorian chant, his own compositions and improvisations while creating a harmonious overtone melody above his own voice.
CDs: “Sound Reflections”, “Whistling Pastimes”, “Harmonic Divergence”.
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Mark van Tongeren
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Mark van Tongeren
Mark van Tongeren is a sound explorer and ethnomusicologist who has worked independantly for theatre, radio, clubs, universities and conservatories as a performer, music teacher, dj and researcher.
He feels equally at home ‘in the field' to study and practice indigenous vocal techniques, as in cutting-edge experimentation in sound and vision, using his voice and a wide array of instruments small and large.
He divides his time equally between the performing arts and music research. He specializes in the performing arts of Turco-Mongol peoples and extended uses of the voice. He is well-known as an author, singer, teacher and speaker in the ancient Turco-Mongolian art of throat singing (or khöömei) and its contemporary, western variant called overtone singing.
For a list of past music activities and upcoming concerts and workshops go to the
concerts and workshops page.
He founded his own enterprise Fusica in 1998. In 1999 he co-founded the North Asia Institute Tengri, which is dedicated to the study, dissemination and exchange of the cultural traditions of this little-known part of Asia.
Mark gives workshops, concerts and private lessons in overtone- and throatsinging and other extended vocal techniques upon request.
Email: mark@fusica.nl
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