Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT, Named by Utne Reader magazine as one of 40 cutting-edge artists that will shake the art world in this new millennium, she is one of the most respected music healers in the world today. Silvia is a musician that has cultivated a voice that transports the listeners into the heart of devotion, an award-winning composer, former psychotherapist, and a leading authority in the field of sound and consciousness transformation.

She is on the faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she has created the world premier Certificate in Sound, Voice and Music Healing established in an academic institution. She is also the founding director of theVox Mundi and the Mystery School of the Voice, a project devoted to preserving sacred musical traditions, combining education, performance, and spiritual service, with centers throughout the USA, Brazil, Argentina, India, and Japan. As an internationally accredited specialist in cross-cultural music therapy training, Silvia has pioneered the integration of yogic chanting with somatic and music psychotherapy, contributing an extensive body of vocal techniques and vocal asanas that have become landmarks in the field of sound healing.

Silvia holds Bachelors degrees in Education and Music Performance, and holds Masters degrees in Clinical Psychology, Music Therapy, and Music Composition from Mills College, Oakland, California. Her post-degrees studies include Psychoanalytic Psychodrama, Gestalt Therapy, Yoga, Sound Healing, and Music Centered Psychotherapies, among other formative and extended studies and practice in Tibetan Buddhism and Tai Chi Qi Gong.

She is on the faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she has created and coordinates the world premier Certificate in Sound, Voice and Music Healing established in an academic institution. She is also the founding director of the Vox Mundi and the Mystery School of the Voice, a project devoted to preserving sacred musical traditions, combining education, performance, and spiritual service, with centers throughout the USA, Brazil, Argentina, India, and Japan. As an internationally accredited specialist in cross-cultural music therapy training, and she has pioneered the integration of ancient sacred sound with contemporary practices of chanting, somatic and music psychotherapy, and shamanism, contributing an extensive body of vocal techniques and yogic asanas that have become landmarks in the field of sound healing.
She has been involved in clinical research in the areas of microtonal singing and uses of the voice to induce meditative states, and her albums are widely used in Hospices, Health Centers, and private practice. Her body of work has been integrated in a comprehensive curriculum of scientific vocal and sound and music healing applications known as The Yoga of the Voice, a training that offers national certification, and extended retreats worldwide.
Nakkach interest in indigenous music cosmology and spirituality has led her to collaborate with renowned mystics and master teachers of Indian and South American shamanic traditions.
Her vocal work covers an enormous amount of territory and for more than 30 years Silvia has studied Hindustani music with the late maestro Ali Akbar Khan, and she is a disciple of DrRitwikSanyal (Varanasi, India), and she is devoted to master the art of Dhrupad and Naad yoga, integrating subtle forms of vocal meditation that highly supports healing processes.

In 1991 she completed her opera: Amazonia Insight that was performed internationally many times. Her classical training and trans-cultural sensibility ensure that intellect and simplicity are always present in her approach to voice and resonance. Her Her new thriving new albums: Medicine Melodies and In love and Longing (w/David Darling) are the last of nine previous CD releases. Her first CD, Ah, The Healing Voice, is widely played in health care centers to create a healing atmosphere before and after surgical interventions.

She is a contributing author to various books, including Music and the Human Process, Music in Human Adaptation, The Transpersonal Consciousness, and Music Therapy at the End of Life. In addition to many published scholarly articles her new book: Free Your Voice is available by Sounds True publishers.

She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area where she established The Voice Loft, an elegant and open environment devoted to present mastersin the field of music and transformation, and expand a creative community of sound and music practitioners.

SELECTED REVIEWS

“ …Her talent makes for music that at times recalls the “mystical minimalism” of modern composers like Arvo Part, at other times ranges from Latin and Indian sonorities, but always feels ambitious,… and could probably hold a tough New York club audience spellbound.” Jon Spayde, UTNE READER

“ Nakkach is a master teacher that brings the discipline of a classicist and the poetic imagination of the indigenous wisdom to her unique approach, which challenge students to sing and create music beyond cultural boundaries, incorporating profound changes into their lives.” Bonnie Lowen, Ph.D, Music Professor, student of the Vox Mundi Programs.

“Nakkach voice has something resembling spiritual luminosity” - Berkeley Express, Berkeley, Ca

In his book The Mozart Effect, author Don Campbell, refers to Silvia as the Argentinean Muse, “ Silvia’s magical voice take us from the spirits of South. America to Arcturus. May we dance along.” Don Campbell

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