Internationally acclaimed opera singer Indra Thomas shares tips on vocal technique with Payton Tanner, a senior music major from Alabaster, Alabama, Friday [Jan. 17] during the Mississippi Voice Symposium and Institute. Thomas is among guests visiting the Starkville campus this week for the MVSI, a two-day program sponsored by the MSU Department of Music that connects youth and adult musicians with respected instructors in vocal science, pedagogy, literature and performance from the U.S. and abroad.