{"id":774,"date":"2018-04-30T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/?p=774"},"modified":"2018-06-21T21:00:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T21:00:18","slug":"ivacon-2018-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/2018\/04\/30\/ivacon-2018-in-edinburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"IVACON 2018 in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/files\/2018\/06\/Ivacon-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-775\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/files\/2018\/06\/Ivacon-poster-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/files\/2018\/06\/Ivacon-poster-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/files\/2018\/06\/Ivacon-poster-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/files\/2018\/06\/Ivacon-poster.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every year, I attend a teachers&#8217; conference organised by the institute i am with &#8211; Institute for Vocal Advancement. This year&#8217;s IVACON was held in the sunny capital of Scotland, Edinburgh \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>This is a week of networking with teachers from all over the world &#8211; I am the only Maltese certified with this institute and of course intensive teacher training, consisting of lectures like: Teaching beginning singers; lots of practical-based learning sessions with our Master Teachers; dealing with various types of issues in the voice, etc.&nbsp; Continuing education in this field is important, it keeps you abreast of what is going on in vocal science and helps you improve every day as a teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Bring on IVACON 2019&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/files\/2018\/06\/ivacon-tag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-776\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/files\/2018\/06\/ivacon-tag-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/files\/2018\/06\/ivacon-tag-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/files\/2018\/06\/ivacon-tag.jpg 766w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the highlights was attending a fantastic master class \u2018Breaking down the riffs\u2019 with Broadway star Natalie Weiss. She was also part of the ensemble for the pre-recordings of The Greatest Showman. What a great voice and inspirational person!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/files\/2018\/06\/Natalie-Weiss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-777\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/files\/2018\/06\/Natalie-Weiss-300x283.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/files\/2018\/06\/Natalie-Weiss-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/files\/2018\/06\/Natalie-Weiss-768x723.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/files\/2018\/06\/Natalie-Weiss.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, I attend a teachers&#8217; conference organised by the institute i am with &#8211; Institute for Vocal Advancement. This year&#8217;s IVACON was held in the sunny capital of Scotland, Edinburgh \ud83d\ude09 This is a week of networking with teachers from all over the world &#8211; I am the only Maltese certified with this institute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemccartin.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}