Don’t Call Me Maestro: A Guide to Vocal Survival

Don’t Call Me Maestro embodies the collected wisdom of Gunnar Filip Peterson, a master educator in the vocal arts. It pulls back the curtain on what actually happens in some professional vocal coaching sessions. Peterson uses his irreverent humor as a point of entry to his profound insights into the art of vocal performance. The book is written in two parts. The first part of the book is filled with an array of short presentations of advice, dialogs, witticisms, and aphorisms, each embodying an essential insight into the art of vocal performance. The second part of the book ( Narrativo ) contains a series of dialogues culled from recordings of over 200 of Peterson’s vocal coaching sessions. Initially recorded for reference and nostalgic reasons, these recordings of Peterson’s lessons are reanimated in textual form to clarify and emphasize the principles he was in the process of teaching at each lesson.