ABSTRACT

Learning to be a professional musician requires the development of interdependent neuromuscular, cognitive, creative, aesthetic, expressive and emotional competences. Moreover, it usually requires a great deal of commitment and self-organisation skills, certain personality traits and a share of luck. These requirements also hold for singers, who, in addition, possess a “hidden instrument” particularly sensitive to changes in both internal and external milieu. Naturally, teaching singing and becoming a professional singer is a unique endeavour.