International Voice Conferences
Singing · Medicine · Psychoanalysis
A world-first initiative bringing together vocal art, medical science, and psychoanalysis. CALYP's annual conference opens the book of the human voice.
A WORLD FIRST
Opening the Book of the Voice
CALYP organized, as a world premiere, the International Conference on the Voice: Singing - Medicine - Psychoanalysis. The speakers are specialists from medicine, the artistic world, and academia.
The holistic approach is the spearhead of CALYP's action. This consortium gathers singing, medicine, psychoanalysis, psychology, and academics for one purpose: Opening the Book of the Voice.
The conference is aimed at singers, people who use their voice extensively or suffer from a pathology, doctors, medical and paramedical staff, students, and researchers.
"Opening the book of the singer's voice can lead to the dissection of a body other than the known body of the living organism..."Dr. Jean Charmoille — Honorary President, CALYP
2023 EDITION
Milan — Villa Medici Giulini
September 22-24, 2023: The second edition expanded to three days at the prestigious Villa Medici Giulini in Milan.
Second International Conference
The second edition featured specialists from France and Italy, with a special addition: Dr. Orietta Calcinoni, ENT surgeon and phoniatrist who has collaborated with Teatro alla Scala since 1987.
The conference included:
- Individual specialist presentations
- Cross-disciplinary discussions
- A closing concert featuring Paolo Parentini (bass) and Silga Tiruma (soprano) from the Paris Opera
- Masterclass conducted by Adeline Toniutti
2023 SPECIAL GUEST
Dr. Orietta Calcinoni — ENT Surgeon
2022 EDITION
Paris — The Inaugural Conference
September 18, 2022: The first-ever International Conference on the Voice, held in Paris.
A Groundbreaking Event
In partnership with La Fondation de la Psychanalyse, CALYP assembled for the first time a public conference bringing together singing, medicine, psychoanalysis, psychology, and academics.
The day featured presentations on phonology and clinical case studies, osteopathic treatment of the singing body, the psychoanalytic dimensions of voice, and vocal technique — followed by a closing concert and dinner.
2022 Conference Program
SPEAKERS
Conference Faculty
A multidisciplinary team of experts from medicine, vocal coaching, and psychoanalysis.
Dr. Jean Charmoille
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst & Psychologist
After a classical secondary education, Jean Charmoille became a psychologist and then a specialist in psychiatry. That was before two events shattered this path and propelled him onto another stage. First, a psychoanalysis that opened the way to a new form of knowledge, then the enigma of Don Juan's cry in the finale of Mozart's Don Giovanni, which struck him one day like that of the silence in Munch's Scream. Jean Charmoille now practises as a psychoanalyst and sings every day.
Adeline Toniutti
Vocal Coach & Singer
Adeline Toniutti is a voice expert. She serves as a vocal coach in the continuing education programme for singers at the Paris Opera. She organises many masterclasses with renowned artistic personalities: Bruno Berberes, casting director for The Voice, and Mariella Devia, queen of bel canto. A lyric singer until 2014, Adeline Toniutti suffered an accident at the height of her career that burned her respiratory tract and severely damaged her vocal cords. She founded CALYP to support singers and people suffering from vocal cord pathologies. Since 2021, she has been the lead singer of a Freddie Mercury tribute show, touring in New York City and across Europe.
Dr. Romain Perouse
ENT Surgeon
He trained in 1992 at the Grenoble Faculty of Medicine in otorhinolaryngology and head and neck surgery. He then trained in phoniatrics and communication pathology in 1995 at the Lyon Faculty of Medicine. Dr Perouse specialises in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the nose, throat, ear and the head and neck region.
Dr. Bruno Coulombeau
Phoniatrist
After obtaining his medical degree, he pursued singing studies and a specialisation in phoniatrics at the Lyon Faculty of Medicine in parallel. Passionate about the voice, alongside his private phoniatric practice he continues teaching and singing activities. He is regularly invited to present and share his experience in clinical phoniatrics, particularly concerning the spoken and sung voice. Among others, he has contributed to several publications including the proceedings of the symposium "Means of investigation and pedagogy of the singing voice" with Guy Cornut. Also a partner of Dr Romain Perouse, phonosurgeon, he organises a biennial phonosurgery course in Venissieux.
Jean-Marie Lege
Osteopath
He learnt singing and music as a chorister at the Maitrise de Notre-Dame de Paris in the early 1960s. He began his osteopathic practice in July 1979, with the first graduating class of osteopaths in France. Since the early 2000s, he has participated in the biodynamic osteopathy working group (Cranial Academy, USA). He treats singers, actors and professional athletes, among others.
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