Maintaining a parallel career in performing and teaching, I am always teaching what I most need to learn, seeking and refining new ways of understanding and communicating the essentials of the beautiful and complicated art of singing. The language for this is a slippery thing, resonating in each singer differently. Having been fortunate to learn from a variety of wonderful singing teachers and coaches, I derive huge pleasure in developing and passing on the wisdom and tools so generously shared with me, most recently by my present teacher, Neil Baker.

My holistic approach is underpinned by formal teacher training in Music (PGCE, Secondary Music with University of London’s Institute of Education) and Yoga (Vinyasa, Mandala Flow and Yin with MoreYoga London and Yoga International). Meeting myself on the yoga mat helps me attune to students and clients and meet them where they’re at, as the starting point for building a relationship where I can guide them to find and nurture their own authentic voice. I invite myself and them to stay open-minded, curious and alive to possibilities of the creative act, with the aim of discovering, as Rufus Norris put it during my training on the ENO’s Baylis scheme, ‘Not what you would do, but what you could do.’

The central strand of my current portfolio of teaching draws together my love of words, music and drama with regular classes in opera and song as Vocal Tutor at Morley College, The Actors’ Richmond Centre (ARC), Benslow Music Trust and latterly Melofonetica’s Veneto Opera Summer School, where, as a coach trained in the Melofonetica Method, I give one-on-one vocal coaching sessions, guide singers daily yoga practices and co-run an exploratory workshop with Matteo Dalle Fratte: ‘Sung Italian in the Body’.

I draw on the experience accumulated across a diverse private teaching practice since my first job as part-time classroom music & singing teacher and choral director at The Tiffin Girls’ School: preparing students for ABRSM examinations, concerts and stage work: delivering the music curriculum as Subject Tutor for The University of Kingston’s General Teaching Practice (GTP) programme; coaching for Berkshire Choral International’s summer programmes: teaching yoga and solo singing at Dartington International Summer School; and running workshops and rehearsals as deputy for community singing groups such as Teddington and Battersea Choral Societies and The Kew Choir.

I offer sessions online and in person in London and Suffolk. If you are interested in finding out more, please contact me here, and see Diary for information on future workshops.