Linus Lerner, D.M.A., Conducting and Vocal Coach/Technician
As a conductor, Maestro Lerner provides clinician services to various orchestras and conductors. His Masterclass “The Importance of the Conductor’s Gesture on the Intonation” has been attended by over 200 conductors and singers in both Brazil and Mexico.
He also has more than 20 years of experience working with over 50 vocal groups groups of all sizes and voice combinations, in addition to participating in numerous tours, festivals and competitions provideing clinician services to various professional and community choruses in the United States, China, Mexico and Brazil.
As a vocal coach and voice technician, Linus Lerner provides services to professionals and community organizations in the United States and internationally with unique vocal techniques he developed based on concepts of:
1) singing with the whole body through the use of kinetics/muscle memory;
2) developing tension-free sound by focusing on the importance of formants and harmonics. He travels extensively to work with singers in the United States, China, Mexico and Brazil. As a singer, Dr. Lerner has performed in many operas, concerts and competitions in the United States, Italy, Brazil and Mexico.
Dr. Lerner is currently director of the San Luis Opera Festival and was co founder and artistic director of the Oaxaca Opera Festival and Zacatecas Opera Festival, all in Mexico. He has provided teaching to over 500 singers in Mexico working at the major schools and vocal programs such as the Mazatlan Superior Music School and the Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Some of his students from Mexico are winners of major voice competitions such as Neue Stimme, Carlo Morelli, and Maria Callas. He also has prepared many students to the Academy of Vocal Arts and other top schools in the USA.
In Brazil and USA and Mexico, Linus provides Master Classes to various Universities working directly with voice teachers and their students in their vocal health and role preparation.