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Voice Care for Singers

A series of video tutorials from our world-renowned courses (Vocal Health First Aid, Vocal Habilitation Professional, Fundamental Anatomy) that highlight important aspects of regular voice care, specifically aimed at singers and professional voice users.
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What is the Voice Care for Singers course?

This course delivers all the advice you need about regular voice care and how your voice works, presented in short and easy to understand films. We also created 5 new videos especially for this resource.

Presenters include Stephen King, Dr Jenevora Williams, Jono McNeil, Duncan Rock, Lydia Hart SLT, Eimear McCarthy Luddy, Lori Sonnenberg SLP, Robert Sussuma, Oren Boder, Joanne Bozeman, David Howard and Dr Phillipa Wheble.

Who is this course for?

All voice users: it is primarily intended for singers, but also useful for speakers, teachers, preachers, broadcasters and lecturers.

It’s like having a vocal health advisor on tap for an entire year.

We cover everything from microphone technique to myth busting, equipping you with the knowledge you need to maintain a reliable, efficient and consistent voice.

Course fee

365 day access for only £25.00

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How does the course work?

When you sign into our online learning platform, you will be guided through 19 films that make up this fantastic resource. There are approximately 4-5 hours of learning content to watch in total and these videos are able to be viewed as many times as needed over 365 days from purchase.

There is no assessment component to this course, however you can download and print a certificate of completion.

Course Presenters
Jenevora Williams

Dr. Jenevora Williams is a leading exponent in the field of vocal health and singing teaching. After a successful career in Opera, Jenevora turned her attention to investigating healthy and efficient vocal function.

The combination of academic study and practical experience has resulted in a unique perception for understanding the human voice. She was the first singing teacher to be awarded a PhD in voice science in the UK, and won the 2010 BVA Van Lawrence Prize for her outstanding contribution to voice research. Her book, Teaching Singing to Children and Young Adults, has been enormously popular with singing teachers throughout the world.

She is well-known for her imaginative and rigorous training courses for singing teachers in the UK, the US and Europe. As a teacher of singing, she works with professional singers of all ages, as well as training teachers in rehabilitation for Vocal Health Education and BAPAM.

Stephen King

Voice users from all over the world trust Stephen with their vocal recovery and rehabilitation. He has personally worked with Hollywood A-listers right through to World Champion Beatboxers, and owns the multidisciplinary VOICE CARE CENTRE in London’s West End.

Passionate about professional development, Stephen has acquired a breadth of knowledge from his qualifications in Advanced Clinical Massage, Medical Acupuncture, Manual Maxillofacial Therapy, Spinal Manipulation, Anatomy (including human dissection) and Voice Pedagogy, and is now continuing his studies into Psychotherapy.

As an advocate of health and wellbeing, Stephen co-founded the not for profit Vocal Health Education with Dr Jenevora Williams, seeking to educate every single voice user around the world on the subject of Vocal Health.

Lydia Hart SLT

Lydia completed her four year BSc in Speech and Language Therapy in 2015, at the University of Reading. Lydia spent two years working with swallowing disorders, before undertaking comprehensive clinical training in Voice and Upper Airway disorders. Alongside her work at Voice Care Centre, Lydia provides NHS outpatient voice therapy as well as running the Joint Voice Clinic at Wexham Park Hospital, alongside renowned laryngologist Declan Costello. She is a trainer with the innovating Vocal Health Education and Vocal Massage Training UK. She has attended the Estill level 1 and 2 courses with The Voice Explained and has trained in Vocal Massage, Myofascial Release and further laryngeal manipulation, with Stephen King.

Duncan Rock

Duncan Rock – MMus, PGDip (nutritional science) – has an active international career as an operatic baritone. He has performed roles at The Metropolitan Opera, The Royal Opera, Teatro Real, Glyndebourne, English National Opera and many others.

He is a Nutritionist and member of the Royal Society for Public Health. He owns and operates a private nutrition consultation – duncanrocknutrition.com – and works specifically on nutrition for singers and voice actors at the Voice Care Centre, London.

Dr. Pippa Wheble

Dr. Pippa Wheble lives and works in Edinburgh as a General Practitioner, Performing Arts Medicine Specialist, Researcher, Lecturer and Breathwork Practitioner. She has worked as an assessing clinician, mentor and trainer for BAPAM (The British Association for Performing Arts Medicine) since 2018. Pippa is an accomplished musician (violin, viola & voice). She is passionate about mental health and resilience in the performing arts, specializing in anxiety management and has introduced Breathwork in music industry, healthcare and the corporate setting as a technique for personal development and improved well-being. In addition to her clinical work, she has led the BAPAM Community Drop-In – providing online peer support for performing artists since the COVID-19 lockdown. She is passionate about empowering and connecting people and driven to generate a strong scientific and professional basis to support the introduction of breathwork into the mainstream.

Chloe Spencer

Chloe Spencer MOst, BA, MSc, AVCM. Following a varied career in music, archaeology, forensics, TV and finance, Chloe retrained and graduated from the University College of Osteopathy with a Masters in Osteopathy (MOst). With a background in sports massage, drama and singing (both in teaching and performance), Chloe has a unique insight into manual therapy for the voice. Her approach is both holistic and patient centred: she treats the whole person, not just the voice, and actively encourages the patient to engage in their own recovery through education and home-based ongoing exercises. Her treatments include standard osteopathic techniques of manipulation and soft tissue work, alongside more gentle interventions depending on the individual case. Chloe has also trained in cranial osteopathy with the Sutherland College of Cranial Osteopathy and breathing therapy with Dr Rosalba Courtney, and is interested in optimising breath and respiratory health for the voice. She currently works as a resident osteopath in a clinic in Egham, Surrey.

Robert Sussuma

Over the past 20 years, Robert Sussuma, MMus. and Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner has been a singer (countertenor, Early Music), voice teacher (all styles, voice-science-informed) and a movement educator (somatic learning specialist), but above all, he’s been an explorer, experimenter, inventor and integrator. He has brought together ideas from the Feldenkrais® Method, Evolutionary Science, Neurology, Experiential Learning, Psychology, Literature and the Arts to create a method for body/voice learning that allows anyone to develop their vocal skills to new and advanced levels while respecting their whole self and system.

Now, Robert, in addition to his interests and class offerings in body/voice learning is branching out to work more and more with the other wonders of the human experience in an integrated and transformational way. Stay tuned!

Visit his website for more info.

Jono McNeil

Jono provides vocal coaching for professional singers, contemporary artists and musical theatre performers. He combines a unique compliment of skills to provide a well blended approach to maximise the possibilities of the voice.

Jono adapts a holistic approach, with a deep focus on sustainable vocal technique, contemporary vocal styling and dynamic performance skills. Jono has been a senior vocal lecturer at the Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) for 10 years where he designed content for the degree vocal curriculum and also an external examiner for other music institutions. He works as a vocal coach for The Voice Kids, The Voice UK, Little Mix The Search, The Masked Singer, Wedding Day Winners and Change Your Tune. An artist and singer in his own right, Jono has also performed with Michael Buble, Paloma Faith, Josh Groban, Nelly, Jamie Cullum, Lemar, George Ezra and Jocelyn Brown, to name a but a few. He has also recently released a new album, Broken Lives available as a digital release on Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal.

Jono combines experience on stage and in the studio with a deep understanding of vocal function, to provide an inspirational coaching experience. He has also presented workshops and masterclasses for a variety of occasions, including the AOTOS (Association of Teachers of Singing), British Voice Association, the Voice Council, Vocology in Practice, and has had a cover feature in the iSing online magazine.

David Howard

Professor David M Howard FREng, PhD, CEng, FIET started his university career as a Lecturer in Experimental Phonetics in the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics at UCL (1979-1990).

He moved to the Department of Electronics at the University of York (1990-2017) where he gained a Personal Chair in Music technology and was Head of Department. David moved to his current post as the Founding Head of the new Department of Electronic Engineering at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2017.

David is a member of the External Affairs Committee of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the Education and Skills Policy Committee of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Oren Boder

Oren is an award winning singing teacher, voice researcher, entrepreneur, and inventor of the SOVT Singing Straw, and is proudly supported by both the Prince’s Trust and Virgin Startup. Oren believes in enriching lives through the arts, and through the pursuit of meaningful science, develops innovative tools and resources to help singers enhance and improve their vocal development, health, and wellbeing, whilst also having an impact on the universe.

Joanne Bozeman

Joanne Bozeman, co-author of Singing Through Change, Women’s Voices in Midlife, Menopause, and Beyond (2020, StudioBos Media), is Emerita Instructor of Music at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin USA, where she taught studio voice and voice – related courses. For many years, she was an active soloist in recital, concert and oratorio. Her students have gone on to excellent graduate programs and pursued careers as performers, teachers, conductors and voice care professionals.

Joanne’s interests are in vocal pedagogy, voice and women’s health, and the relationship of reproductive hormones to female voice throughout life. She is a frequent presenter on women’s voice, a member of the Pan American Vocology Association (PAVA) and the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), and maintains an independent voice studio.

Eimear McCarthy Luddy

Eimear McCarthy Luddy is a singing teacher with a keen interest in vocal health and singing voice rehabilitation. She was the first Irish person to complete advanced training in voice science (also called vocology) at the National Centre for Voice and Speech in Salt Lake City and remains committed to expanding her training by completing regular CPD courses. She qualified from the Royal Irish Academy of Music with a Masters in Music Performance where she also conducted research investigating attitudes and practices toward vocal health in Ireland. As a singing teacher she maintains a busy practice from young students to professional singers. Eimear founded Vocology Ireland in 2020 with the goal of bringing an approachable voice science and vocal health resource to Irish shores. As part of this goal she presents voice science and vocal health education workshops for singers and singing teachers. She is also currently a vocal health trainer with the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine and a Vocal Health First Aid Assessor for Vocal Health Education.