Learning to sing can seem daunting and complicated. Upon searching the internet for different ways of improving our singing, we are bombarded with information on how to do so. Videos, blogs, exercises and information to saturate the internet more and more but the real question for most people is: where do I start? In my private lessons I aim to strip back the complicated aspects of learning to sing by working with students to create a tailored program of exercises, repertoire along with a practice schedule. 

A typical lesson will start with a warm up in the form of vocal exercises. Here we focus on waking up the voice, setting the president for singing with a free, easy sound for the rest of the lesson and beginning some technical work without the pressures and demands of a piece of music. After we are suitably warmed-up, we then tackle repertoire. Here we not only continue to work on developing a beautiful and healthy vocal sound, but also to respond to the musical demands of the piece, improving the delivery and getting songs to a good performance standard. 

As students develop, I usually encourage an increasingly playful approach to their learning, to vary their practice and to increasingly use their own judgement on how to best improve outside the lessons so that they can become the master of their own artistic development. I teach students all ages and abilities and am experienced in taking students through ABRSM grades and preparing students for auditions for music college, drama school and various projects.