Petra Lang Mezzosopran

Singen - Lehren       Singing - Teaching


The quality of a vocal training only becomes apparent towards the end of a professional singing career
For me, professional singing is about reaching the retirement age of the respective voice category in a healthy voice. This can be the case for a soubrette in her early/mid-30s, for coloratura and lyric voices in their 40s, and for female singers with dramatic vocal potential often beyond the menopause. Male voices usually have a chance to sing into their 60s and beyond.
I use the same professional standards for teaching as I do for my own professional singing: I teach

  • student-centered
  • individually tailored to each singer and his or her stage of development singing technique, repertoire, and showing him or her ways to his or her own interpretation and thus a way into their own (singing) independence.
  • geared to the professional reality of the professional singer and professional teacher, enabling them to remain active in their profession for as long as possible
  • mindful, appreciative, holistic, solution- and resource-oriented in dialogical cooperation
  • regular further education and supervision are a matter of course for me
  • I value collegial exchange in the interest of the students and for the students at eye level with honesty

I reject event management for the profiling of teachers and "Schwarze Pädagogik".
At the ABPU (formerly the Bruckner Conservatory, Linz), there is a unique system for master's studies in voice major. Students have four voice major teachers. Three master class teachers (piano, bass, stage director - about 80% ECTS points) and one teacher of voice (about 20% ECTS points).
In the Bachelor's program, there is the wonderful opportunity to take  "Early Music"  with additional voice instructors parallel to the voice major. In this way, the young voice student can practice disembodied, vibrato-less singing and a classical voice treatment at the same time.

To my great regret, I have ended my teaching career at this institute at my own request at the end of the summer semester of 2022.


I am in the thirty-fourth year of my active, international singing career. This shows that my vocal education, whose processes I stand for and whose content I teach, has proven its quality.                                                                                                                           October 2022


Teaching

  • Teaching Studio Master Concert, HfMDK Frankfurt am Main
  • Masterclass concept: "Audition Training" and "Applied Voice Technique for classical singers and voice teachers", BDG-certified as further education 
  • Course-Concept: "Teaching Course - Professional Voice Teaching made easy", BDG-certified as further education since 2022
  • University Teacher for Voice Major, Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität, Linz 09/2021-10/2022
  • Lectures "Voice Physiology für Classical-Singers, Pianists and conductors, ABPU 2022
  • Guest Teacher Master Voice, Musikhochschule Trossingen WS 2021/22 - SS 2022
  • Online-Lectures: "Voice Physiology for Classical Singers, Pianists and Conductors", German/English -  since February 2020, BDG-certified as further education since 2022
  • Teacher vor Voice Major, AfT, Darmstadt 09/2019 - 01/2020
  • Seminar "Sound Relaxation for Musicians", AfT, DA WS 2019/20
     

Masterclasses 

2021 Meisterkurs Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
2021 Meisterkurs Bayreuth, Festival junger Künstler
2020 Meisterkurs Bayreuth, Festival junger Künstler
2019 Cours de Maitre, Conservatoire de Musique de Quebec
2018 Meisterkurs Zürich, The VocalWorkShop, Schweizerische Richard Wagner Gesellschaft
2018 Meisterkurs an der Hochschule für Musik, Mainz
2016 Meisterkurs Bukarest
2015 Meisterkurs für das Studio der Oper Köln
2015 Meisterkurs, St. Goar Music Academy
2014 Meisterkurs, St. Goar Music Academy
2013 Meisterkurs für Wagner-Gesang bei den Bayreuther Festspielen
2012 London, Master-Class, Richard-Wagner-Society
2009 London, Master-Class, Gustav-Mahler-Society
2008 Meisterkurs für das Gesangsstudio Ludger Breimann, Münster
2007 Workshop an der Musikhochschule Köln
2007 Meisterkurs für das Gesangsstudio Ludger Breimann, Münster
2006 London, Mahler-Meisterkurs für die Gustav-Mahler-Society


Portfolio

  • Voice studies 1985-1989   Künstlerische Reifeprüfung (mit Auszeichnung), Teacher: Gertie Charlent
  • 1989-2006 Teacher: KS.Prof. Ingrid Bjoner, Oslo
  • 1996 - 2006  study of Wagner roles with Astrid Varnay
  • 2012 -2012 Teacher: Angelo Loforese, Milano
  • Masterclasses: Judith Beckmann, Brigitte Fassbaender, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Hans Hotter, Peter Schreier, William Workman
  • Estill Figure Proficiency 2021
  • Estill Level I/II since 2019: Jenny Caire,  Dorte Hyldsdrup,  Gillian McLarenScott, Dr. Stefanie Rummel, Anne-Marie Speed, Kimberley Steinhauer
  • Estill special Topics: Joëlle Bourdon, Jenny Caire, Alessandro Campone, Prof. Dr. Franco Fussi, Stefan Holmstrom, Corinne Mager, Dr. Stefanie Rummel, Alejandro Saorin Martinez, Marc Secara, Anne-Marie Speed, Cari Tellis, Simon Ward
  • Integrative Stimmtherapie und Stimmpädagogik nach Evemarie Haupt
    - Grundkurs ISTP-I, Kerstin Bode
    - Die Singstimme und Therapie der Sing- und Gesangsstimme , Miriam Haupt
  • Heptner-Institut: Kehlkopfmechanik, Michael Heptner

Bundesverband deutscher Gesangspädagogen BDG

BDG Kongresse: Dortmund, Kassel, Düsseldorf, Essen, Osnabrück

National Association of Teachers of Singing,  NATS

NATS 56th National Conference 2020

Estill Voice Training

Estill Symposium 2021

PAS7+

7th International Physiology and Acoustics of Singing Conference 2022

Estill Voice Training

11th Estill Voice Symposium, Vienna 2023

Coaching

  • Zertifizierter Coach für Klangpädagogik (SHB), Steinbeis-Hochschule Berlin
  • Peter Hess ®-Klangpädagogin
  • Peter Hess®-Klangentspannungscoach
  • Zertifizierte Psychologische Beraterin & Lebensberaterin (HPS Isolde Richter)
  • Lizenz Mental-Coach DTA
  • Relaxation-Trainer
    -  Trainerin für Autogenes Training B.I.E.K.
    -  Trainerin für Progressive Muskelentspannung B.I.E.K., fitmedi

Memberships

  • Bundesverband deutscher Gesangspädagogen BDG
  • EVTA-Austria (Bund Österreichischer Gesangspädagogen)
  • National Association of Teachers of Singing, Inc. NATS
  • Estill Voice International
  • European String Teachers Association ESTA
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Musikphysiologie und Musikermedizin DGFMM
  • Europäischer Fachverband Klang-Massage-Therapie e.V.