'Support'. Why is it so elusive to fully understand?!
Posted by: Mark Luther
in Directors Blog
on Mar 13, 2010
The great 'Support' mystery in singing seems to have baffled both the professional and amateur singer for ever! Pavarotti talked about a push out, going to the toilet feeling when singing, yet other great singers advocate a gentle 'pull in'. It seems to me that both are right depending on the singer. From my own personal experience, I like to thing of support more as a high level of excited energy, which seems to create the right environment in the body for the good support.

Philip Mills started playing the clarinet in 1976 at the age of eleven. After spending most of his young musical life playing in various wind bands in the Warwickshire area, he successfully passed his audition and enlisted with the Coldstream Guards Band.