Tomatis Workshops
Rome – Verona – Canton Ticino
The next Tomatis Workshops will be devoted to developing the perception of oneself and of the other through the refinement of self-listening and of listening to others. The work will be based on the possibilities the Tomatis method offers for improving the capacity to listen and the presence in the here and now, so as to bring out one's human and communicative potential to the full.
Both in theory and in practice we shall touch on the main topics of the Tomatis system that underlie our capacity for attention and concentration, working in practice on the perceptual refinement of sounds — the basis of being present in the moment, our only possible appointment with reality.
As in the classic audio-vocal and audio-instrumental workshops, and according to each participant's needs, it is also possible to work with the spoken voice, the sung voice and instrumental sound. Musicians, singers and instrumentalists may bring their scores and their musical instrument in order to practise with the Electronic Ear with Tomatis Effect which, by improving the perceptual quality of the ear, improves vocal and instrumental production and fosters a greater bodily awareness, thanks also to the improved communication between the cochlea and the vestibule that the exercises encourage.
Dates and places of the next Workshops
- Rome, 3-4 October 2026 — at the Associazione culturale Emisferi, via Michele di Lando 72, piazza Bologna district
- Verona, 10-11 October 2026 — at the Monastero del Bene Comune, via Mezzomonte 28, Sezano di Verona, on the hills of the Valpantena. The monastery provides board and lodging to participants on request
- Faido, Canton Ticino, Italian-speaking Switzerland, 21 November 2026 — at the Studio Point of Daniela Jelmini, piazza Franscini 2
- Locarno, Canton Ticino, Italian-speaking Switzerland, 22 November 2026 — at the Studio Auris of Anna Comizzoli, via Antonio Ciseri 6
For information, costs, programmes and registration instructions, write to info@tomatis.it or telephone +39 335 6206275.
Upon request from a group, it is possible to hold Audio-Vocal / Audio-Instrumental Workshops in specific locations of your choice. For information, write or telephone the studio.
What is the Audio-Vocal and Audio-Instrumental Workshop?
The AAVAS is an intensive theoretical-practical laboratory based on Tomatis's research into the functioning of the phonatory apparatus and of instrumental motricity in the condition of maximum performance and minimum effort. The AAVAS helps to put into practice what Tomatis discovered in the course of more than fifty years of clinical and didactic work with operatic and light singers, actors, orators, instrumentalists and singers of Gregorian chant.
The workshop is open to all those who wish to perfect their own vocal and instrumental potential, while at the same time following a work of research and personal growth through a work with the voice and/or with the instrument, according to what was discovered and perfected by Dr Alfred Tomatis.
The laboratory is of a theoretical-practical kind and has as its objective to help the pupil to use his own vocal and instrumental potential in a more complete manner, by means of particular exercises specially devised by Dr Tomatis to rediscover one's own true voice and one's own instrumental sonority.
The Audio-Vocal / Audio-Instrumental Workshop teaches one to produce a sound fuller and richer in harmonics with the voice and with the musical instrument, as explained by Tomatis in his most important publications. The Workshop can be of great help within a course of perfecting vocal and instrumental technique, in singing, in acting, in everyday speaking and in verbal expression in the work environment.
The bodily involvement in the singing, verbal or instrumental activity entails a lightening of the physical and mental effort, with the consequence that the voice and the sound of the instrument prove richer in harmonics and better controlled. The expression becomes more fluid and simple. From this derives a sensation of pleasure in expressing oneself, while the attention of the listener is held for longer times. The singer, the orator and the instrumentalist increase the possibility of emitting a sound of quality with less expenditure of energy, freeing themselves from the voluntary compensatory efforts, whose recovered energy will come to be used positively for progress in their own course.
The AAVAS will be held by Dr Concetto Campo.
Principal subjects treated:
The Tomatis Effect, proven in the Laboratories of Physiology of the Sorbonne
The listening posture
The myth of respiration
Lightening the vocal effort - Practice
Posture and bone sound - Practice
Posture, laterality and language - Practice
The upright posture and the genesis of facial mimicry
Vocal energy and personal energy - Practice
Vocal security and intrinsic security
Audiogenic training - Practice
Why Italians have difficulty with foreign languages
Audio-motor control of instrumental sound - Practice
Relationship between vocal/instrumental quality and cortical vigilance
The importance of a good pronunciation
Reading aloud with the right hand in front of the mouth - Practice
Reading aloud in a foreign language
Ethno-linguistic posture. Acting upon the body to favour the learning of a language
Exercises with the Electronic Ear - The various ethno-linguistic and ethno-musical attitudes
listening and interpersonal relationship
Exercises of maintenance and progression
For more information, please contact:
Studio dr. Concetto Campo
via Quinzano, 31 - 37124 Verona
Tel: +393356206275
E-mail: tomatis.verona@gmail.com
Scientific and press articles on the Tomatis method, language and the voice
Suono e struttura del corpo, Interview for the magazine Son. No. 43, July-August 1973
La voce umana. Uno strumento meraviglioso, Interview for the magazine Son. No. 71, May 1976
La musica e i suoi effetti neuro-psico-fisiologici, XIII ISME Congress, London, Canada, 1978
L'Arena, 24 November 1999 - "Orecchio Elettronico e metodo Tomatis"
Alto Adige, 19 October 1999 - "Musica e metodo Tomatis"
Alto Adige, 10 June 1999 - "Tomatis, educazione all'ascolto"
La Stampa, 3 June 1999 - "E Mozart ridiede la parola a Depardieu"
Il Giornale di Vicenza, 5 May 2000 - Thiene - "Un incontro per capire come funziona la voce"
L'oreille musicale; Journal Français d'Oto-Rhino-Laryngologie, Numéro 2, Février 1953
Academie nationale de medicine, Modifications phonatoires d'origine auditive, Séance du 4 juin 1957
L'oreille consideree comme capteur, Ecole Supérieur d'Electronique de l'Ouest, Angers, 1974
La reeducation de la voix, Vie Medicale, 20 - mai 1974/4
This workshop is also available in other languages: Français (AAVAI) · Svenska (AVAIK)