Wildness &
Precision®
LET’S GET INFINITE.
WORKSHOP
MOLGATO: APPOGGIO, LEGATO & SEAMLESS PHRASING
Saturday, February 15, 2025 2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern
*For singers, instrumentalists, and performers of all disciplines.
In this workshop you will learn the how the most extraordinary musicians and athletes breathe for performance.
Using a synthesis of the Alexander Technique, Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization principles, optimal acoustics, exquisite singing technique and artistry, we will be soaring into principles of aerodynamics, the recoil of the respiratory mechanism, the diaphragms of the body, functional intra-abdominal pressure and how it relates to respiration in singing, and dissolving unsophisticated techniques that keep breathing efforted and replace them with extraordinary respiration practices.
You will receive personal coaching, and a studied, simple practice for eliciting full-body appoggio that you can refer to forever.
When you complete this workshop you will truly understand dynamic, responsive support and how to cultivate the conditions for seamless phrasing. You will have a lived experience of how your body is truly designed to support your singing.
It is fully my intention that this workshop will change your life.
Workshop Structure
Part 1 Structure, Function & Concepts
Optimal Coordination: Structure and function of vocal and respiratory mechanisms in the context of the entire body including the diaphragms
Optimal Respiratory Function: Support, Appoggio, and Emergence/ Effortless Sustain
Exercises to establish optimal coordination and access optimal respiration
Part 2 Styles & Applications
Uses of legato in classical, traditional, and contemporary music
Experiments and techniques to elongate exhalation, refine tuning, and extend resonance
Part 3 Coaching
Specific coaching for participants to work even more precisely with repertoire and application
Open Q&A
“The Molgato workshop in particular is so rich in fundamentals, it feels like a realignment from the inside out in the gentlest, but most effective way. The amount of information presented is both staggering and deeply helpful, and is immediately applicable in the coaching component. This type of intensely researched, accurate, and performer-specific information just isn’t offered anywhere else I know about with such ease and frank joy.”
Rainelle Krause
Soprano & Aerial Artist
Royal Danish Opera, Dutch National Opera, Staatsoper Berlin Unter den Linden, Nashville Opera, Les Arts, València, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Theater Basel, The Metropolitan Opera, English National Opera’s BBC Proms
ABOUT KATE
Kate Conklin is 6 feet 3 inches of pure, unadulterated resonance.
Kate is a soprano, a leading interpreter of the highly demanding vocal music of Bulgaria, and an extraordinary performance coach. Kate is a certified Integrative Alexander Technique teacher, holds two degrees in Vocal Performance, and was a Fulbright Scholar to Bulgaria, where she studied singing, pedagogy, and conducting, and performed as a member of The Ivan Spassov Academic Choir. Kate was also the vocalist for Cirque du Soleil’s “O,” where she performed approximately nine hundred shows, and subsequently brought on to teach at the California Institute of the Arts where she served as vocal faculty, as well as founding and directing the Bulgarian Vocal Ensembles.
Kate sings in seventeen + languages and is known for her playful gravitas.
Kate coaches acrobats, artists, opera singers, athletes, entrepreneurs, directors, and performers of all kinds to create the conditions for consistent optimal performance, skilled mastery, and unprecedented performance techniques so they can get the support, recognition, and fulfillment they desire and deserve.
Kate’s unique methodology, Wildness & Precision®, is the process that has emerged from decades of coaching the best performers in the world, and deep study in the fields of optimal performance, optimal acoustics, flow state, stress physiology, neurobiology, systems theory, Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization, anthropology, philosophy, and creativity.