Pedagogue, Kendrick Jacocks gives some of the so called “secrets” of the bel canto method. With a wealth of experience via a rare vocal heritage that goes directly from his first teacher Ethel Taylor Maxwell to Estelle Liebling and the Marchesi School then to his brief studies with Virginia Zeani and from her, Lydia Lipkowskaya, Aureliano Pertile, Maria Malibran and the entire Manuel Garcia family etc…, Jacocks may be uniquely qualified to write such a book.
Kendrick Jacocks is a voice pedagogue, historian, writer, singing voice therapist, and professional singer with a rare somatic understanding of how the voice works, and an even rarer grasp of bel canto singing style and technique. His life is dedicated to the practice of singing opera and all other genres as a means of transmitting human emotion. He has considerable professional soloist experience with opera companies and symphony orchestras etc..., and has received invitations from major opera houses for his portrayal of Othello.