My passion for singing and the human voice has been with me as long as I can remember. My career began by singing to all the animals, sea creatures, and the ocean, on the beach front where I spent my early years and summers before going to college. Dance became a part of my life when I was three and sport followed in my teen years. All are intricate parts of my life today; and for me, music, body and movement, and spirit are one.
Formal study of singing began in high school and continued at Salem College where I received a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance. After that came a Masters in Sacred Music from Union Theological Seminary in New York (Voice and Choral Music), and after several years teaching at Wilson College, I returned to studies at the University of Southern California where I received a Doctorate in Voice Science (Anatomy and Performance). Teaching at the University of Southern California and then at the University of Delaware included both singing and anatomy. My life in Europe began by being awarded an NIH Post Doctoral Fellowship to do further research on the voice at the Royal College of Surgeons in London.
Professional music activities include solo concerts, performance in summer stock, choral conducting of major choral works, musical director of shows in university and community theatre, voice and vocal consultant to film productions and theatre.
In addition to university teaching and consulting, there have been tours of the US, the UK, and Europe giving master classes in singing, and teaching courses in Presence in Performance and Vocal Anatomy for Voice Professionals. Membership in various organizations devoted to the voice have included: NATS, AOTOS, British Voice Association, and others.
After years of teaching both singing and anatomy in the university, I was honoured with a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship to the Royal College of Surgeons of London to do further research on the voice. While in London, dance, movement, Alexander Technique, spiritual alchemy, and esoteric and spiritual aspects of sound and healing became part of my study, and I came to value these as contributing greatly to ‘presence’ in the performer. I then moved to London to further interests in healing and communication firmly believing that singers (and speakers) must develop both the inner and outer self so that singing truly comes from the heart –therefore allowing the performer to become the true healer. 
Recent study of Integrative Quantum Medicine™ (IQM) with Louise Mita has brought all of my interests and skills under one umbrella, and led me to open my own practice of Energy Healing for Singing. Amazed by the effectiveness of this work, I intend to devote much of my time to this practice.

Honours Include:
Van Lawrence Fellowship 2001(awarded by the Voice Foundation), Philadelphia 
Human Communication International Award 2000 
National Institutes of Health Post-Doctoral Fellow (1979-81) 
Listed in Outstanding Young Women in America (1968)
Books include: 
The Performer’s Voice, WW Norton, New York 2005 
The Singing Book with Cynthia Vaughn, WW Norton, New York, 2004, 2008 
Creating Confidence Kogan Page 1999, FC Cake Publishing, E-book 2004 
Dynamics of the Singing Voice, Springer-Verlag, 1982, 1993, 1995,1997, New edition coming 2009 
Speak with Confidence, Kogan Page, 1988 
The Little Book About the Voice, FC Cake Publishing, E-book 2006 
Audio CD: Succeed, FC Cake Publishing 2004

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Meribeth G Dayme, PhD, Author; Speaker; Vocal Consultant;