Circle Singing & Vocal Improvisation with Typhanie Monique

Adult Group Class / Voice Program

Have fun exploring your voice while collaborating and connecting with others. Explore tone, range, registers, and styles that celebrate the art of improvisation. Harmonize, play, and create spontaneous compositions through spoken word, rap, scat, melodic improvisation, and circle singing. Release your fear of making a mistake by making sound and having fun, harmonizing with others in the spirit of creating! Let’s explore!
This course is open to ALL experience levels!

Typhanie Monique is a recording artist, educator, performance coach, and improviser. As a performer, with over 20+ years on the Chicago music scene, she has graced many stages from OTSFM’s Mauer & Szold Hall to City Winery, The Chicago Jazz Festival, The Jazz Showcase, The Green Mill, SPACE, Elbo Room, Studio 5 to Sub T to name a few.

As an educator, Typhanie Monique is an OTSFM family members. She taught for over 12 years before joining the faculty at DePaul University and Columbia College Chicago. August 2024, she accepted a position as Clinical Associate Professor of Popular Music, Voice at Arizona State University in Phoenix, AZ. The ASU Popular Music program started in 2020 and she’s thrilled to share her expertise and experience in the growth of the program in areas of vocal studies and performance specialization.
She holds a B.M. in Music Business from Elmhurst University, a M.A. in Music (Vocal Pedagogy) from Northeastern Illinois University, and is a certified Vocologist from the University of Utah.

At Old Town School, Typhanie taught and created a jazz vocal course series with Tony Do Rosario and John Erickson, The B Sharp Singers (Seniors Choir), The Troublemakers (vocal jazz ensemble), a variety of focused vocal technique courses, and private voice and piano lessons.

This week we bring her back to share her knowledge and her love for the singing voice, the art of improvisation, and Black American Music styles.