Breakout Session
Be Informed and Protect Your Hearing - Important Results on Prevalence of Hearing Loss and Hearing Exposure Studies for Teachers of Singing
Sunday, June 24 • 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Presenters: Deanna McBroom, Lucinda Halstead
Introduced by: Cindy Dewey
Location: Montecristo 2-4
Learn the facts about your hearing risks, how to identify hearing loss, and how to take protective measure in your studios and rehearsals to preserve optimal hearing and prevent overexposure. The speakers will share the results of their research, offer suggestions, and lead a discussion on how to prevent further hearing loss and effectively manage hearing issues in your work and personal life.
About Deanna McBroom
Deanna McBroom, soprano, has appeared throughout the US and in Europe with symphony orchestras in over forty solo/oratorio roles, in leading roles in over thirty operas, and frequently in concert series and chamber music. She recently premiered new works with the Charleston Symphony’s Magnetic South Series and has performed contemporary works for many organizations, including the International League of Women Composers, Spoleto Festival USA and Piccolo Spoleto, and American Music Center. Director of the Voice Program/Professor of Music at College of Charleston, and Singing Voice Specialist clinician at Medical University of South Carolina’s Voice Institute, her students have attained national and international careers and are winners in national singing competitions. She lectures nationally and internationally on habilitation of the singing voice and treatment/health-and-wellness for injured singers, most recently for The Voice Foundation, Performing Arts Medicine Association, MTNA national convention, 2016 NATS National Conference, British Voice Association, and the Austrian Voice Institute.
About Lucinda Halstead
Lucinda Halstead, MD is an associate professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery and the Department of Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Halstead’s interests in laryngology, voice, performing arts medicine, swallowing and pediatric otolaryngology led her to found the MUSC Voice Center in 1987. In 2000, the Voice Center expanded and she became the Medical Director of the MUSC Evelyn Trammell Institute for Voice and Swallowing. Dr. Halstead is the laryngologist for the internationally renowned Spoleto Festival USA. She lectures nationally and internationally on the topics of vocal health, disorders of the singing voice, laryngopharyngeal reflux disorders and pediatric voice and swallowing disorders. She serves on the Board of the Performing Arts Medicine Association, and is a member of The Voice Foundation, Collegium Medicorum Theatri, and the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology, amongst others.
