The only training course based on Gillyanne Kayes' best-selling book
Singing and the Actor

Do you want to eliminate anxiety or fear before a performance
Understand exactly how to help your students grow
Finally KNOW what you are doing with your voice?

Testimonial: "Immensely inspiring to see both of you at work. Thanks sincerely for helping me get MY voice back."
Allan, singer teacher (France) on the September 2010 Training Retreat

February 2012 SOLD OUT, now booking for March/April 2012.
Want to know how to work your voice with more colour, more style and more confidence? Spend three days with voice experts and authors Gillyanne Kayes and Jeremy Fisher on an intensive vocal journey and uncover the potential of your voice.

Gillyanne Kayes on the Singing and the Actor Training course, run by Vocal ProcessThe second edition of the book Singing and the Actor is a Methuen best-seller. It's a recommended text in theatre departments and conservatoires across the world.
Singing and the Actor Training is the only authorised course that uses the book at its core, and the only one currently taught by the author. After just three days, you will leave with the tools you need for vocal success.
 

Testimonial: "Relaxed, comfortable environment to learn, wonderful setting and food, fun, really personalized."
Emma, actress singer (UK) on the first Training Retreat in 2010

About the trainers

Gillyanne and Jeremy have a long history as trainers - Gillyanne as a consultant and researcher, and Jeremy as a vocal and performance coach. Both have a strong belief in human potential and have trained numerous singers, actors and teachers to grow in their careers and their voice use.

Both are involved with cutting edge voice science, with keynote presentations for the Pan European Voice conference and Netvotech, the forum for science and voice.
"The multidisciplinary voice training company Vocal Process has developed a unique approach to voice" Opera Now magazine
 "Revolutionising the way singing is taught LINK magazine

Vocal Process has a solid voice science foundation for all its courses and products. The company has been featured on the BBC's Leading Edge and Science in Action science programmes and at the Science Museum in London.
"Vocal Process incorporates the latest thoughts in the voice science world into their training, presented in a clear and digestible way" Zone magazine

Testimonial: You gave me confidence that you really know what you are doing and have done thorough research - learning from experts!
NN, actor and director, UK


The intensive three-day Singing and the Actor Training
will include the following:

  • Identify and target your personal vocal challenges
      Gain confidence from knowing what you are doing

  • One breath does not fit all

      Discover how easily you can breathe

     

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  • Every voice has gear changes

      Choose to control, disguise or feature your gear changes
     

  • Exercises for vocal constriction and release

      Free your voice from unwanted tension

     

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  • Exercises for supporting your voice

      Feel the voice-body connection

  • Find at least five different ways of onsetting tone
      Never be worried about starting a sound again
     

  • Understand your own vocal volume control
      Soft & focussed, loud & intense, you can have it all
     

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  • There is more than one place to resonate

      Find the resonance that works for you

     

  • Tuning and resonance are two different things

      Discover how to deal with tuning issues
     

  • The secret of effortless projection

      Make acoustics work for you

     

  • If you can hum it, you can sing it

      Improve your personal vocal range

     

  • There is more than one way to sing

      Maintain your individuality AND expand your tonal range

     

  • Practise in small group sessions

      Sharpen your ears by working with others

     

  • Analyze what other voices are doing

      You will never listen to a singer in the same way again!
     

  • Get one-to-one attention from trained mentors

      Receive individual, expert advice for your voice
     

  • Different styles need different instructions
      Feel the settings for different vocal qualities
     

  • Expert performance coaching in the Insight sessions

      Witness the power of the work on YOUR repertoire
     

  • Your voice is an instrument, not a mystery
      Knowledge is power - learn how your voice really works

Testimonial: True breakthrough moments. When the singing techniques were put into practice, the vocal quality shifted before our eyes and ears.
Lisa Wilson, Past President VASTA, USA

Testimonial: Before I was basing my singing on feelings and sensations. Now I KNOW what I'm doing, how to improve it.
Maria T, actor singer, Spain

Testimonial: Videos were fantastic as well as diagrams and models. It gave me a real 3-D view and understanding of the larynx and vocal tract.
AMB, performer and teacher, UK

Testimonial: Thank you, thank you, thank you! You are the two most excellent mentors. I won't forget your teachings or the positive methods you have used. Thank you. Inspirational.
CP, teacher, UK

Singing and the Actor Training is a three-day intensive on the real "how-to" of singing, and is packed with information, techniques and hot tips for singing in different genres.

Testimonial: The company, theory in action, the location, the food, making sure that everyone could understand and practise the techniques... hard to see how you could squeeze anything more into the time allotted!"
Joe, actor singer (UK) on the third 2010 Singing and the Actor Training Retreat


Understand the different musical and spoken genres for flexibility in performing and teaching.
Discover a new palate of vocal colours for more expressive artistry.
The course has a solid voice-science base balanced with vocal art and performance practice, and the work is presented with audio, visual and kinaesthetic learning tools. The training is invaluable for performers who teach and teachers who perform.
You get personal tuition from trained mentors and more than 20 contact hours with two of the UK's leading vocal trainers.
 

Why THIS training course?

We know that there are a lot of courses out there.
We set up this training because:

1: We work to help you process in a way that makes sense to YOU.
It's no good working with someone who has the information but doesn't know how to convey it to you, in your learning mode.

2: You know exactly how much a training programme costs. There are no hidden "extras", and we don't make you pay huge non-refundable deposits!

3: Singing and the Actor Training is the stepping stone to joining the Integrated VoiceTM training programme. This three-day intensive is packed with all the information you need to progress. And unlike other training organisations, you only need to do the training once - you can take it for granted that we teach clearly enough for you to get it the first time!

4: We are not biased towards one musical or vocal style ("classical is the only true way" or "rock is unhealthy"). We give you the tools to make your own choices about how you want to sound. If it's healthy, it's good.

5: Vocal Process has an extensive programme that is not limited to a single "method", or a single presenter. You don't have to believe in us, or "join the church" to attend. And we definitely don't have tunnel vision when it comes to vocal technique.

6: Vocal Process has an extensive track record and a 300-page website packed with articles, reports and vocal information. "One of the most informative and wideranging websites I have come across" New Zealand Association of Teachers of Singing. We share information and promote expertise.

7: Vocal Process course presenters have high-level experience in the field, working with professional performers AND their teachers. We train the trainers, and that speaks for itself!

Testimonial: The experience of your workshop was amazing. Your teaching techniques definitely work.
Monica R, Pilates trainer and vocalist, Germany


Jeremy and Gillyanne have presented together for over 10 years, and bring two contrasting but complementary disciplines. You will be getting a practical, holistic and matching overview of the way the body and voice works, from recognised leaders and authors in the field.
In addition, you will be working one-to-one with facilitators trained personally by Vocal Process, who will help you with your personal practice and make sure you understand what you are doing at each stage of the work.

Testimonial: "I think what truly makes them unique as mentors and tutors is their combined abilities and strengths. Gillyanne is simply brilliant at putting really technical information into accessible, practical terms that one can apply immediately. Jeremy's strength is his ability to interpret the music and his innate talent for grasping the "feel" of the material. Jeremy will ask questions, give suggestions and guide you through the piece- just as one does with dialogue.
I LOVE this way of working. Each song you work on truly becomes yours."
Suanne B, Actress/singer, South Africa and UK

Imagine what it would cost to hire an international vocal practitioner

Gillyanne charges upwards of £100 per hour for group training. Imagine having her undivided attention for more than 22 contact hours. Then imagine multiplying that by two. Two international trainers with almost 50 years of teaching experience between them.
Imagine being able to ask all those niggling questions that have bugged you for years, and have in-depth, live-in-the-moment, personal answers from two of the country's leading experts in singing and performance.

That's more than £4,400.00 worth of training!

  • More than 22 contact hours with voice and performance experts and authors Gillyanne Kayes and Jeremy Fisher.
  • A beautiful and peaceful venue with locally sourced organic food
  • Visual, kinaesthetic and auditory tools for a complete and holistic learning experience.
  • Performance coaching opportunities in the Insight sessions.
     

Also included in the price is your own reference copy of Singing and the Actor, worth £15.99, and a highlighter. You don't have to sit laboriously taking notes, you can take in the information instead. Since you have a copy of the book in front of you, you can easily highlight the information you want to remember. We've found it's the quickest way of embedding the information you discover on course and cross-referencing it with the book.

So that's three days of practical exercises, vocal tips and know-how, from two of the leading trainers in two different disciplines who are dedicated to YOUR vocal development, and presented by a cutting edge training company.

But that's not all

Since we know you'll benefit from this training, and we want you to act right away, we're going to include a very special bonus:

At the end of the third day you get to choose which Vocal Process training DVD, worth £47.00, you would like to take home - completely free of charge. You can choose from the Voicebox Videos, Constriction and Release, Nasality and the Soft Palate, or Twang - The Techniques. It's an invaluable addition to the Singing and the Actor experience and it's yours to take home and keep.

In 2012 we're running the Singing and the Actor Training as a retreat in our home on the Welsh borders. You arrive on Saturday lunchtime and leave on Monday afternoon. We want you to have the best possible experience of this intensive work, so currently we only accept 8 people on the course.
 

And there's more

We're going to do something that we think no other voice-training company in the UK is doing at the moment. We are so confident in the effectiveness of this training that we are prepared to guarantee it.
We know that some of you take time to embed the things you learn - that you like to (as Loyd Grossman used to say) cogitate and digest. We've had emails from previous participants months, even years after completing the training, telling us that they still use the techniques they discovered on that weekend and how effective they are.

So we are going to offer a money-back guarantee. But this is no ordinary guarantee. We're going to give you a full year to use the techniques. Come on the training, do the work and take a full year to try them out on yourself or your students. If at any time up to a year later you feel that you haven't gained anything, just let us know and we'll refund 100% of your training fee, with no questions asked.

That's a 100% guarantee

Ask any other voice-training company in the UK if they would be prepared to do this. We just want to say this again - We believe in your potential so we want you to come on this intensive training. We also believe in the effectiveness of our training, so we're guaranteeing it for a year. If the training information and techniques don't do anything for you, just let us know, and we'll give you every penny of your fee back. So you really do have nothing to lose and everything to gain.


By the way, your bonus DVD is yours to keep anyway, even in the unlikely event you decide to take advantage of our 100% moneyback guarantee.


Our courses sell out fast!

We have had a number of our courses sell out within hours in 2008 and 2009 (Vocal Anatomy and Physiology for Voice Professionals, Muscles Alive! and Belting Explained). In fact, Belting Explained sold out within hours of sending the letter out, and on Muscles Alive! 2010 we were turning people away.

STOP PRESS: The last six Singing and the Actor Training Retreats have all sold out weeks in advance. The next Training Retreat takes place on March 30 - April 1 2012. This special training retreat costs £547.00.

The River Lugg running through our tranquil gardenPart of our tranquil gardenThe Singing and the Actor Training retreat takes place in our home in Presteigne on the Welsh border (see the pictures to the right). Presteigne was recently voted one of the top ten small towns for quality of life in the UK by the Daily Telegraph. Our tranquil garden has a river running through it, and our quiet house gives exactly the right atmosphere for concentrated learning and relaxation. Our food comes from three prize-winning local providers - Leon's Deli (voted best Deli in Wales 2011), Alex Gooch (Artisan Baker of the Year 2011), and Scrummy Bites (Ludlow Food Festival winner) - and the local organic farm.

If you want to book a place on the Singing and the Actor Training Retreat, click the link below and book.

Book Singing and the Actor Training Retreat Now!

 

To your success,

Jeremy Fisher and Gillyanne Kayes
Vocal Process

P.S. This is the only course in the UK that teaches Singing and the Actor work. Take the opportunity to experience the practicality of this groundbreaking book with the author herself.

P.P.S. Vocal Process is giving you an extraordinary guarantee - we are so confident in this course that if you are not satisfied even at the end of a year, just let us know and we'll refund 100% of your course fee. So there is genuinely no risk involved to you.

P.P.P.S. Vocal Process has already had a number of courses sell out within hours in 2008, 2009, 2010. The July and September 2011 and February 2012 Retreats have sold out weeks in advance. If you want to discover how much more your voice can do, click on the link to book your March 2012 place now!

Book Singing and the Actor Training Retreat Now!
 

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Presteigne LD8 2BY

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