Tomatis Support for Singers, Speakers & Performers
For singers, actors, speakers, and performers who depend on listening, vocal precision, pitch accuracy, and memory for performance.
Strengthen the Listening System Behind Your Voice
Performance depends on more than technique. It depends on listening.
For performers, the connection between the ear and voice affects pitch, timing, regulation, projection, and expressive control.
When listening is under stress—or not functioning efficiently—performance can feel harder, less reliable, or less precise.
Sue Sonkin specializes in working with performers using the Tomatis Method to strengthen the auditory foundations of performance.
Common performance concerns:
Difficulty matching pitch
Vocal inconsistency
Auditory fatigue
Trouble monitoring your own voice
Vocal strain related to listening effort
Inconsistent vocal control
Who Sue works with:
Singers
Actors
Voice actors
Teachers
Speakers
Clergy
Coaches
Broadcasters
Sue Sonkin is a Level 4 Tomatis Consultant—one of the few practitioners in the United States with advanced Tomatis training.
Unlike many practitioners who offer Tomatis as part of another discipline, Sue’s practice is dedicated specifically to Tomatis listening work.
This focused specialization allows for deeper expertise, individualized program design, and a highly experienced understanding of the listening system.
Sue has specialized experience working with singers, performers, and voice professionals.
Her specialized focus allows for a deeper understanding of the listening system and its impact on performance.
Why work with Sue?
In this interview Gerard Depardieu explains that when he first arrived in Paris at 17 years old, he was an illiterate, stuttering, hyper-emotional individual, with only a few words with which he could express himself.
His acting coach introduced him to Dr. Alfred Tomatis, who worked on the connection between language and hearing and discovered that he had hearing problems.
Through the Tomatis Method and its use of specially filtered music to stimulate the ear muscles and auditory cortex, Depardieu was able to improve his speech and communication skills, control his hyper-emotivity and develop his memory.
Link to full interview on the Geneva Tomatis Centre
Maria Callas was a Greek-American soprano, and one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century, she consulted Alfred Tomatis in 1955 for she knew that there was something wrong with her right ear. She met with Alfred Tomatis three times and underwent audio-vocal training twice. The first two times, Callas only needed two weeks of audio-vocal training to regain full function. The third time, however, her voice was in such disarray that Alfred Tomatis recommended she stayed in Paris for three months. She used the Tomatis® method to assist in her comeback.
In-person and remote options
Most people prefer to work from the comfort of their own homes.