Roberta Prada, contralto, studied in Buenos Aires at Teatro Colon’s Instituto Superior de Arte and began her career there. She has sung in Europe, the UK, South and North America in leading roles in opera, concert and recital. Her repertoire includes French and Italian 19th Century works, baroque masters, and other rarities.

She is author with Francis Keeping and Pierre Sollier, of the English adaptation of The Ear and The Voice by Alfred A. Tomatis, Scarecrow Press, 2004, and translator with Francis Keeping of the expanded English version of J. Faure’s The Voice and Singing, first published in Paris in 1886 and published by Vox Mentor in September 2005.

She graduated Wellesley College, and is trained in Neurolinguistic Programming, and in the work of Dr. Tomatis.

In 2008 together with Francis Keeping she co-authored the first volume of Opera and its characters published by Vox Mentor.

In May 2009 Vox Mentor launched their latest project the iMozart™. This project has been in the works for several years and with the extraordinary gift of the program designer Chris Faddick of Big Bang Soundworks this Tomatis based listening program is now available to the general public at accessible cost.

Prada lives in New York and is president of Vocalimages Inc., a 501 C (3) entity producing a documentary on vocal longevity and Vox Mentor LLC, a company devoted to projects aimed at the furtherance of excellence in the performing arts, especially classical singing.

South African born Baritone Francis Keeping, a musician, writer and illustrator, moved to New York in 2000 after a twenty-year stay in Italy and the UK where he performed in opera and recital in the principal theaters of Europe.

He teaches voice in New York and in Italy, and is a principal in Vox Mentor LLC and Vocalimages, the latter a non-profit corporation fostering music in education. He has recorded several albums for international recording companies with his repertoire spanning most genres from sixteenth century religious works to contemporary. Future recording projects include nineteenth century Italian, French and English art songs. He teaches voice in New York and gives master classes in Italy each year.

In 2003 he made his Broadway debut not as a singer but as an artist when he designed the graphic art elements including the stage curtain seen in the Broadway Hit Musical WICKED now a worldwide phenomenon.

As a writer he has co-authored The Ear and The Voice with Roberta Prada, a translation and adaptation of the work of Dr. A. A. Tomatis and the first English translation of The Voice and Singing by J. Faure. In 2008 together with Roberta Prada he co-authored and illustrated the first volume of Opera and its characters published by Vox Mentor.

Other projects include the graphic design and art work for the new Karen Hartman musical comedy “Dancing With Abandon”, completing writing and illustrating a new novel and overseeing the next volume of Opera and its characters.

In May 2009 Vox Mentor launched their latest project the iMozart™. This project has been in the works for several years and with the extraordinary gift of the program designer Chris Faddick of Big Bang Soundworks this Tomatis based listening program is now available to the general public at accessible cost.