IKIGAI - vokal.total.2026 - Workshop

IKIGAI: a workshop based on the book of the same title by Héctor Garcia and Francesc Miralles. We will apply the Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life to MUSIC. Our time will be spent singing, improvising, discussing, doing physical exercises, meditating, and reading about the concepts that will help us have a long, productive and healthy career in music. My intention is to focus not only on the vocal instrument but also on the artist's mind, spirit and soul. I truly want you to wake up every day enjoying your relationship with music, feeling valuable and worthy in your craft, and finding a way to continue doing it for as long as possible. Music with purpose! Art with community! Learning and taking advice from those who have exited on this planet for more than 100 years!

Language: English

Kim Nazarian is a world renowned, Grammy nominated jazz performing and recording artist, educator and clinician. Besides her work as a sought-after solo vocalist, she has been performing all over the world with the vocal group “New York Voices“ (NYV) for more than 35 years. She is a jazz voice teacher for Vocal Jazz Majors at Ithaca College and she shares her perspectives on music and life as a musician through teaching private students in clinics, workshops, jazz camps and masterclasses, as well as through festival adjudication and guest conducting for singers on all levels in the US and abroad.