Midwest Voice 2025
Join us for a celebration of all things Voice at the Midwest Voice Symposium.
Hosted by the University of Iowa, this year's event will take place on November 1, 2025, in the beautiful and dynamic Voxman Music Building, with both in-person and online attendance options available.
2025 Keynote presentations will be from Dr. Alexis Davis Hazell, Dr. Thomas L. Carroll, Dr. Katherine Verdolini Abbott, and Dr. Jack J. Jiang.
This daylong conference is dedicated to exploring the science, health, and art of the performing voice. While the symposium highlights the vibrant Midwest voice community, participants from across the country and beyond are warmly welcomed.
All registrations (in-person and zoom) will include a full day of presentations from industry leaders in voice science, pedagogy, and medicine. In-person registration will include refreshments during coffee breaks, and a catered evening meal with entertainment.
Midwest Voice is co-hosted by Dr. Eric Hunter and Dr. David Meyer, uniting the historic Iowa Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and the pioneering Iowa School of Music. Faculty from Bioengineering, Education, Otolaryngology, and related fields will also contribute to this unique interdisciplinary event.
REGISTRATION
All registrations (in-person and zoom) include a full day of presentations from industry leaders in voice science, pedagogy, and medicine.
In-person registration includes refreshments during coffee breaks, and a catered evening meal.
Registration options:
- For professionals, the in-person option will be $130 and the Zoom option will be $100.
- For students, the in-person option will be $40 and the Zoom option will be $25.
Agenda
Symposium Snapshot
- 7:30 am: Doors Open for Registration & Coffee
- 8am: Welcome and Introduction
- Morning Sessions 1 and 2
- Noon-1:30: Lunch on your own, Networking
- Afternoon Sessions 3 and 4
- 5:30 pm: Evening Social, Musical Entertainment, Dinner provided
Symposium Program and Abstracts
Pending, check back soon...
Symposium Detailed Agenda (subject to change)
| Speaker Name / Event | Talk Title / Topic | |
| 7:30 AM | Doors Open | Registration |
| 8:00 AM | Welcome | Opening Remarks |
| 8:10 AM | Session: Voice Production and Therapy | |
| 30 min | Katherine Verdolini Abbott | Keynote: To Method Or Not To Method: That Is The Question |
| 10 min | Andrea Rohl | Subcortical Contributions to Voice and Speech Production: Insights from Direct Human Brain Recordings |
| 10 min | Shanshan Zhang | Quantifying Talk-Time In Music Instruction: An Automated Method |
| 10 min | Matthew Edwards | The Wired Voice: Integrating Technology into Contemporary Vocal Practice |
| 10 min | Theodora Nestorova | Singing Voice Machine Learning AI Models as Diagnostic Biomarkers for Vocal Health, Dysphonia, TMD, and Tremor |
| 10 min | Christian Herbst | Six-Pack Singing: On Associations Between Anterior Abdominal Muscle Activity And Vital Capacity Percentage |
| 10 min | Q&A with Speakers | |
| 9:50 AM | Coffee Break | |
| 10:20 AM | Session: Singing Pedagogy and Applied Voice | |
| 30 min | Alexis Davis-Hazell | Keynote: Sounding The Self: Vocality In Performance, Pedagogy, And Care |
| 10 min | Ian DeNolfo | Elite Opera Singers and Auditory Optimization: Exploring Hearing Enhancement During Valsalva in Vocal Performance |
| 10 min | David Meyer | Biomedical Advances in Vocal Tract Imaging |
| 10 min | Jeremy N. Manternach | Toward Evidence-Based Choral Conducting Gesture |
| 25 min | Abbey Dvorak& SunJoo Lee | Tremble Clefs: Therapeutic Group Singing For Individuals With Parkinson’s Disease |
| 10 min | Q&A with Speakers | |
| Noon | Lunch Break | Lunch on your own |
| 1:30 PM | Session: Medical Interventions and Vocal Health | |
| 30 min | Thomas L. Carroll | Keynote 4: Voice disorders that present without dysphonia |
| 10 min | Ahyeon Choi & Inyong Choi | How the Brain Tracks the Singing Voice in Music and Speech |
| 10 min | Mili Kuruvilla-Dugdale | Rethinking Auditory-Perceptual Methods for Research and Clinical Practice |
| 10 min | Pasquale Bottalico | AI-Generated Dysphonic Speech: More Clear, Less Stigmatized? |
| 10 min | Maryann Krasko, et al. | Assessment Of Vocalization In A Rat And Findings From The Pink1-/- Rat Model Of Parkinson Disease |
| 10 min | Thomas Moors | Unisono After Laryngectomy: Finding A New Voice Through Music And Science |
| 10 min | Q&A with Speakers | |
| 3:10 PM | Coffee Break | |
| 3:40 PM | Session: Voice Measurement and Scientific Advances | |
| 30 min | Jack J. Jiang | Keynote: The Biomechanics of Vocal Fold Trauma |
| 10 min | Lady Catherine Cantor-Cutiva | Early Detection of Voice Symptoms in Future Teachers |
| 10 min | Swati Ramtilak, et al. | Multi-Modal Mri And Ct Image Processing For Vocal Tract Area Function Estimation |
| 10 min | Subin Erattakulangara, et al. | A 3d Upper Airway Atlas: Data, Segmentations, And Printable Vocal Tracts |
| 10 min | Eric J. Hunter & Mark Berardi | Transforming Vocal Variability from Noise to Signal |
| 10 min | Mark Berardi & Eric Hunter | From Signal Variability to Vocal Sustainability: Operationalizing Precision Medicine for Occupational Voice Health |
| 10 min | Q&A with Speakers | |
| 5:20 PM | Closing Remarks / What's Next | |
| 5:30 PM | Entertainment | |
| 6:00 PM | Dinner |
Accommodations
For those looking for accommodations, the University of Iowa has a special rate with the Hyatt Place Iowa City Downtown, 255 E Court St, Iowa City, IA 52240 -- less than two blocks from the Voxman Music Building.
Click the button below to get the special rate of $99 a night, free breakfast buffet, and parking at $9 a day on weekends.
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