CREATIVITY VOICE STUDIO

Trish Mairet is a gifted voice teacher and vocal therapist who has worked with children, teens and adults for over 16 years. Her skill as a teacher and her ability to see exactly what students need, is a unique combination that allows rapid growth in voice, creativity development and musicianship skills. Her background in music and voice and clinical & transpersonal psychology, give her a unique insight to work with the technical and emotional issues that singers face in training and performance.

Trish grew up listening to all styles of music. At the age of 10, her favorite Country artists were Ray Charles, Roger Miller & Johnny Cash.  Her sister played a  lot of R&B & "Motown," especially artists like The Four Tops, The Temptations, Smoky Robinson & Steve Wonder, whose influences effected her interest in Soul Music and The Blues.

Trish began learning guitar chords and a few melody lines and she started to accompany herself learning folk songs of Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt & Laura Nyro.

Her mother had a satiny Sarah Vaughan style contralto voice and from her she learned concepts like phrasing, timing, lyrical expressions and improvisation. Her grandmother sang and played the piano and organ by ear. By listening to her grandmother, she began to simulate some piano voicings and essentially began a study of ear training. Her mother's influence exposed her to the valuable study of Jazz which would become the most important musical opening of her career.

The music of the sixties also played a significant role in Trish's musical development. She loved artists like, Joplin, Hendrix, The Eagles, Eric Clapton, Stevie Winwood, Cream, Dave Mason, Buddy Guy, Stevie Wonder, Tom Waits, Led Zepplin, Velvet Underground, John Mayall, Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, Ten Years After, Bob Seager, The Doors, The Who, & Grand Funk Railroad, etc. Guitar solos from Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmy Page, B.B. King, Mick Taylor & Pete Townshend exploded onto Trisha's musical sensibilities and imprinted her with the drive to begin to memorize solos, almost verbatim.

Moving to the West Coast in the latter 80's introduced Trish to "KJAZ" which was at the time, the premier San Francisco Jazz station. Listening to jazz was extraordinarily challenging and very compelling and the most musically inspiring to date. Her brother, Nick, began making audio cassettes for her of compilations of the history of jazz, which included many instrumental groups and vocalists. Trish immediately loved Thelonias Monk & John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Etta Jones, Betty Carter, Horace Silver, Johnny Hartman, Miles Davis, Joe Pass, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, Jobim, Jao Gilberto, Wes Montgomery, Bill Evans, etc., etc. From listening and listening to the recordings of these fantastic artists, Trish became madly passionate about learning jazz and decided to renew her love of singing, which began during her adolescence.

Nick also turned her on to the local jazz scene and she began attending San Francisco Bay jam sessions and shows at Yoshi's Jazz House and many other music venues around SF Bay Area. She attended Jazz Camp West, where she met and worked with vocal teachers Jay Clayton, Rhiannon and Faith Winthrop. After working with several musicians including; Vocalist/Pianist/Teacher, Suzanne Pittson, Pianist, Bob Rife' and Saxophonist, Steve Wolfe, Trish began studying music theory and piano at Santa Rosa Junior College. She trained briefly at the Jazz School in Berkeley with Jenna Maminna and Mimi Fox and studied Speech Level Singing technique with Dave Stroud.

In the early 80's Trish entered graduate school and studied Clinical Psychology at John F Kennedy University in Orinda, CA. She focused her work on healing, archetypal and symbolic methods of therapy practice, including Jungian Dream Work, Creative Visualization, Body Oriented Therapies, Movement and Somatic Psychology, Breath-work, Trans-personal Psychology and the influences of Eastern Religions. Trish also attended several workshops in Movement Psychology including the Feldenkrais Method, Hatha Yoga and Authentic Movement. The Jung Institute in San Francisco became central in exposing Trish to the concepts of Depth Psychology, which laid the foundation of an ideology which acknowledges Universal Consciousness in all things.

Trish's vocal sound is described as soothing, soulful, calming, sultry and dreamy. Her phrasing and time are impeccable and the music is uplifting and fresh with sprinklings of Soul, Bluesy Jazz, BeBop and Brazilian motifs.

TRISH'S MUSIC WEBSITE: Trish Mairet Jazz

CREATIVITY VOICE STUDIO

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