Vocal technique for professionals, future professionals and amateurs
Italian/French born 1971, voice teacher for professionals and future pro singers, breath management and mobility biomechanics, the interactions of the anatomical systems related to voice with a purposefully strong practice perspective, international presenter.
Her practice is a door to the physiological voice, it serves all styles, has been presented internationally, I call it the (r)evolution of Voice model or if you prefer cossumethod* in the current practice. It is an integrated biomechanics of the general musculoskeletal system in its contributions to voice quality and voice production with the traditional high quality technique which is the Italian Belcanto. I am presenting the rationale of it internationally to make it common knowledge in the future. My job daily being of voice optimisation, transformation, training for pro and future pro singers (or passionate amateurs), optimisation of breath and workouts, with the specific voice perspective tools in general well-being and mobility with the advantage of the survival functions rooted into voice production. 15 years of constant artistic and physiologic results.
*cossumethod is in the cross bridging of advanced functional biomechanics findings into the context of voice and their specific relevance to serve voice production and artistic voice, both spontaneous and technical.
My opera voice students, what to expect from our lessons.
Italian/French voice teacher for professionals and future pro singers, innovator in vocal technique specialised in training and personalised solutions, voice development and voice preparation for touring/recording, young voices development without forcing the delicate and respectful balance of young talents. She has solved strain/issues and limitations of singers unsolvable by training or medical therapies. Those skills have 15 years of successful career and voice transformations in all styles; hospitals have sent her some desperate cases, all successfully.
12 times international presenter at PEVoC 14 & 15 and The Voice Foundation Symposium 2023 and 2024 – Philadelphia- in Voice pedagogy and Voice science- biomechanics. She will present at Eurovox2026 – Lucerne.
She comes from an international soloist career in classical music that a malpractice during an abdominal surgery has interrupted (the surgeon has been convicted).
Courses and workshops are available online from everywhere and in person can be arranged.
– You have an exceptionally natural gifted voice, wow!; but sorry to say your teacher is pretty terrible and did teach you nothing, nothing at all!! As a young voice teacher I felt uncomfortable, disappointed: this constant and unanimous feedback on my one, three, two, five years students and no student had that voice arriving, some had also certified issues and yup they disappeared working. Now as a nearly 15 years teaching I realise no compliment could be greater. The technical work we did and do prove itself so functional to disappear into the good function, to be the so difficult to find natural gifted voice. What huge recognition they were, and still are, to our technical work! My work and research are to have a path to what is structurally and physiologically the natural gifted voice, the rationale underlying this practice has had a paper presentation and two workshops at Pan-European Voice Conference PEVoC14 (https://youtu.be/Lg7sg1Q-cG8) and on some specifics on singing for professionals will be the presented as unique author of other three abstracts at next The Voice Foundation 52nd Annual Symposium. Knowledge will catch on what is valuable of this path.
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Lucia Cossu Voice teacher online/in person Rue Charles Morren 9 – 4000 Liège BELGIUM TVA: BE0723776188 Mail: cossuvoiceteacher@gmail.com
Those are some of the professionals that have worked on their voice with me.
Eleonora Bianchini
Weekly student 2016/ 2019, now just a little control of the stabilisation a couple of times per year. Singer and composer, ranked 4th Best female Italian voice for Jazz.it 2016, graduated and merit scholarship at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Conservatorio Morlacchi and Santa Cecilia in Perugia and Rome (Italy), international collaborations (Oscar Stagnaro, Rosa Passos, Eva Ayllon at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and Queens Park in New York as well as Latinoamericando Festival in Milan and Fiestaroma in Rome Walker, Jamey Haddad, John Pierce, and has also recorded for Danilo Perez’s Panama Suite Big Band projectPortinho, Klaus Muller, Felipe Salles, Hector Martiñon, Juancho Herrera, Aquiles Baez, Leo Traversa and many more. She has a stable duo project with upstanding italian upright bass player Enzo Pietropaoli, they record for the label Fone Jazz Records. We worked on a weekly basis for 18 months to make a deep technical work, and we obitained what was on purpose: her 5th cd produced during our work is now distributed by national stores laFeltrinelli, national radios called her to sing live (Rai24, Rairadio1, LaRepubblica web) and Rairadiorai transmitted an old concert in Ecuador. We had to work on technical solutions she was used to but not accorded to the nature of her voice, reshaping the way to look for solutions (perhaps the most difficult task with a professional singer), so freeing a hidden capacity of some characteristics she thought where just nature in some. Thanks Eleonora, and your thanking me in cd cover. It has been a great pleasure and honour to work and shape different coordinations of your voice and your trust in me in doing so, so happy of this cd and the new repertoire and finally with big band and further. She knows I am pushing her a bit to do more and more; she is such an incredible musician and I still dream of what I have heard in class, just waiting the time she can realise this new project.
Here all news and info on her and her concerts and projects
Jazz singer, we completely transformed her way of thinking voice and singing in a intense period of 6 months and then a regular weekly basis for another year. You can see part of this evolution in a video here https://luciacossu.com/cossu-method-program/
The results were that finally started a true carreer: her first CD Inner Nature, winner at Winjazz competion 2015, many more gigs, an european tour, in november 2017 she opened a concert of italian popstar Elisa for Save the Children. Elena was one of those singer with an extremely musical attitude and the final setting of her voice is something composed by an absurd well balanced work of proper muscles of appoggio and sostegno in positions not usual for a coloured mezzosoprano as she is. We made a well sorted absurd in which she has a colour of overtones on which she loves to relate and work on, and just leaving the shades of the mezzosoprano but not the full sound, the velvet redistributed as a vibration round the attack in all the tessitura ’till the high notes. It is something very peculiar and perhaps very contemporary for italian jazz scene, and we could obtain something she did not think she could achieve even if she was dreaming about since she started singing.
Galil3o, artistic name of Francesco Galioto is my weekly students since september 2017. He is a guitarist, singer and songwriter from Rome (Italy). Rewarded by critique prizes, sung at the national show Sanremo Giovani and at the Concerto del 1 Maggio (both worlwide broadcasted by RaiTV), opening concerts of important italian popstars as Gianluca Grignani and Marlene Kuntz, playing in the most important venues of Rome (Orion Club, Stazione Birra, Circolo degli Artisti, Piper club, Jailbreak). Previously in the FSH band as composer, singer and guitarist now has a soloist project the Galil3o. I am just giving him some technique easyness and skills to have him more singer than songwriter, trying to change nothing of his way of singing. He was excited and happy of what he could do while recording just after a couple of months of work together.
During our work he recorded his first solistic songs, won the Spaghetti Festival 2018, reached his first national radio RAIRadio1 experience, published his first soloist album that is encountering great success.
Intensive work April/September 2018. Great songs and personality, not great technique but a huge potential. In few time he followed me so well. I have been kind and tough, truly tough where required on some old bad habits. Bad habits have a special place in my work because they have a bad order in the brain and a great part of our work is to solve bad roots that you pay too much. He trusted and followed me and now he is ready for his beautiful original songs in a great discographic project, a project born on his songs and voice just started between London, Sicily sand New York. To me he is still a bit too high in the larynx but it is now a question of time to gain stamina and a bit more relaxation in the connection, but yes truly good work. And yes we have the medium voice he had not, good good job Eddie. What a pleasure and honour to be the vocal reference for those artists who arrive to me.
Enjoy just few seconds of his song during one of our lessons.
Weekly session 2017/2020. Singer, graduated in vocal jazz from Saint Louis College of Music and Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome (Italy). She collaborated with pop, jazz, rock, blues, latin, reggae groups as soloist and backing vocalist, and two stable collaborations in Quarteto Malandro and BMVCabrio. In 2018 her debut album, always in 2018 she wins the audition for Emanuele d’Urso swing orchestra, some new collaborations, a new project. We are going towards her goals.
Light voice, we are working into a technical research to a personal effectiveness in her sound to support the mixture of electronic and brasilian mood of her musical soul.
I do not know. May be I wasn’t, I don’t like while I was singing
or I felt myself not precisely or I do not know.
But now
when I hear myself, when I record myselfI feel that it is not perfect or whatever,
it’s what I want. “
Alice Robber
Alice Robber, artistic name of Alice Pistoia. We made a series of our technical full immersion in October and November 2018 in London, few months after she releases her first song and video. The series have been initially streamed on Youtube (where it had remained available for some months) to give a truer flavour to our work and the pressure (useful to speed a change and motor control adaptations) that the public always give to an artist, then it was correct to move further.
Singer, composer winner of many awards and well established career. We made some five months of regular sessions to clarify some technical points in theory and perspective. http://www.chiaramorucci.it
Laura Sciocchetti
Roman jazz singer, she came for some issues in the voice that made her not have comfort and colour of her deep and strong chords without a lot of struggle. We solved the issues in some months of intense work in 2015, she could win the vocal competition Lady Day 2015 for Ancona Jazz. She became in 2017 soloist for the Italian national jazz Orchestra of Conservatori. https://www.facebook.com/laura.sciocchetti
Lorena Falbo
A short intense tune up of four months. Soul singer, winner of the 2010 Festival Estivo. First are two original songs in 2011, after four months of work together. You can hear the difference from the precedent. We gained ease in high register , the possibilities of more dynamics in medium register, pianissimi and a differently coloured high register, more ease in high and heavy rhythms. During those months she could place in repertorio Oggi sono io in the Mina version, some other difficult songs of Mina and some standards she immediately sung in Rome venues.
Songwriter. Short and intense tune up for his debut concert in Piper club in Rome in 2011. We could work on the roots of some defaillant vocal gestures, and it was a proficous work.
My student since a couple of years, now she can be presented officially and she will have a place between the professionals since she has been hired for a show in which they are just two on scene dancing, acting and singing (mostly singing) and she has been proposed for a weekly gig at her name.
Now you hear her potential and yes she is pretty something. She sings in a precise Italian song style. Enjoy a little minute of the today lesson
Lucia Cossu Voice teacher online/in person Rue Charles Morren 9 – 4000 Liège BELGIUM TVA: BE0723776188 Mail: cossuvoiceteacher@gmail.com
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Not professional students
Some of my students.
6 years lessons amateur student Eleonora
Eleonora is a young singer, composer of some songs, my student for a complete course when I let her go as our work was completed. Weekly lessons from 2010 to 2016. Here you can listen a demo with some covers. Enjoy, she is pretty special.
2 years lessons amateur student Agnese
Weekly student 2014/2017, now a monthly session. She arrived with a technical problem that made here not being well in the pitch and a too much air in the sound. We worked just technically for 18 month and then I could convince her, who always refused, to perform in a class Recital. This is her first demo recorded in three hour in autumn 2016 after the summer pause. She is now involved in composing her first songs, she is in a band, they are looking for a producer.
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2 years lessons semiprofessional student Rita
Rita is a young singer, my student October 2015/ December 2017. Great personality, great voice, she sings since she is very young. We have worked to start giving her a voice for a career, she is now understanding if she wants to put into this project true commitment and daily energies.
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3 years lessons amateur student Giorgia
Weekly student 2008/2011. Winner of some singing competitions, she participated to tv shows for teen singers and has been called to open concerts for professionalson a regular basis, she sung the song closing the show at the Christmas concert of teens 2011 for Sky. We worked on italian repertoire (Elisa, Laura Pausini, Mia Martini, Claudio Baglioni) and international (Sara Bareilles, The Beatles, Elton John,Withney Houston, Amy Winehouse, Robbie Williams and others). Here when she was 15.
and here the audio during an online lesson singing with an exercise that wants a pen being hold horizontally between her teeth while singing and not let it fall for all the song.
Another happy ending from struggle. She arrived to me not being able to sing without strain and breaking the sounds. Younger she was a natural voice, then some voice lessons and her voice did not improve but collapsed (that is why training of young voices must be of the finest level of knowledge for functionality and voice development, so easy to slip down fast and put dysfunctionality just for too much pretension too soon). It developed in a dysfunctional voice with struggle and breaking the sounds, impossibility of singing more than half an hour every other day. Logopedic treatments and other different voice teachers useless. She did not contact me immediately because skeptical of Skype lessons. Then we started, we made 11 months weekly lessons, a pause of one year due to her scholastic tasks. Another 11 months of weekly lessons and here she is preparing the first gigs, no need of my lessons now. She seems to develop in a talented professional, now it is her choice and path, but not anymore struggle for unknown reasons. Very very happy.
Now you can hear others improvements few months later and in her Instagram
Maria Sofia, my weekly student september 2015 / november 2017. She has a great talent for contemporary composers as Birdy, Lorde, Taylor Swift, High school Musical and Tracy’s character in Hairspray and some 90ies stuff. After one year of lessons, at 15 years old, she represented her renowned highschool in a national show celebrating those Institutions devoted to excellence singing Gloria Gaynor – I will survive. It was her first performance, the song is not exactly a song for her but she did it. You can hear her at 1′ 38”
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6 months lessons amateur student Camilla
Camilla here 17 years old, weekly student February 2016/ July 2017
in the class recital in July 2016, her first performance.
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3 years lessons amateur student Alex
Alex , born 1992, my student 2009/2012. Singer in the group Fading Lost. Here an original song and two covers. This is the result after two years of lessons.With the first song they were selected for the final round of the Festival Estivo 2011. They are usual to have concerts and the determination of the group is here evident. He sings songs original from his band and Oasis to Muse, U2, Bacharach and Gershwin.
He is now an occupational therapist and this is a little talk from his medical point of view on Cossu method.
Lucia Cossu Voice teacher online/in person Rue Charles Morren 9 – 4000 Liège BELGIUM TVA: BE0723776188 Mail: cossuvoiceteacher@gmail.com
