David DELANEY, MA, ACR, NP, LPC- Psychotherapist & Voice Trainer

I am certified as a Tomatis® Consultant Level 4. I work with those who use their voice professionally; lots of actors who sing.  I have over 50 years experience in singing and helping singers accelerate their path to being a virtuoso, singing in front of a live audience.  I walked this path myself. See a couple of clips from my one man show in NYC “Love, Desire, and Growing Pains” in 1992.

https://vimeo.com/183162178

https://vimeo.com/371913021

I was introduced to Dr. Alfred Tomatis work when I was an actor-singer in New York City in the 1980s. My singing voice teacher was a consultant for the Tomatis Centre in Paris because of her skill in helping singers find their authentic voice.

I was trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NYC in acting, voice, singing and movement. When I began working as an actor, I was introduced to Margaret Laughlin Riddleberger who had sung at the Metropolitan Opera and was teaching actors the Italian Bel Canto approach to singing voice. She and I eventually collaborated and she sent me all her singing students in NYC & Washington, D.C. because of my training and certification as a Rolf Practitioner of Structural Integration, an approach to freeing the body from the stress, fear, and trauma that accumulates in the course of our lives and which can put significant limitations on our vocal apparatus and expression system.  My background and training in bodywork, anatomy and physiology, movement, and  exercise physiology provided me with the ability to recognize holding patterns in the human body and help the individual free their core musculature (the emotional muscles), or what I call in  my book “Intrinsic Singing” the ‘singers muscles’. There is both know-how transmitted from teacher to student through the centuries, as well as modern science now of how the voice actually functions and we need both to become our best self.

Dr. Tomatis work is incredible in that he understood that the human voice is controlled by the Inner Ear. If your listening ability is compromised (unresolved trauma from childhood, injuries, accidents, emotional issues, etc), yiour abiiliuty to sing in your God given voice is equally compromised.  They mirror one another.  By training the middle ears muscles and the Vestibular-Cochlear System (Inner Ear structure) in collaboration with the Central Nervous System (brain), we can improve how you listen in space (much more complex than just hearing) and this will have an immediate impact on your vocal emission. His science was impeccable which is why he won the French Medal of Science in 1959.

So, I am a problem solver for singers (and actors) who feel they have the talent, but where there is a block that needs to be released and resolved. And I love working with committed humans. Please feel free to reach out if you want to explore further.