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Client feedback...
We receive many
comments about our process from course participants.
I just wanted to
write to say thank you for giving us such a fascinating and
involving day last Tuesday. Feedback from my tutors has been
excellent. Even staff who had known already a fair amount about the
physiology of the voice were thoroughly stimulated by your training
- it always helps to revisit things. I know we will all draw on the
ideas / information you gave us in many different ways in our future
teaching.
I was very impressed
by your teaching style / pace; with the way you explained things so
lucidly; with the way you dealt with questions / issued raised -
altogether a very professional and skilful session.
It is something of a
risk to pick someone from a website (however impressive that website
might be!) and invite them to take responsibility for this single
precious annual day's training -- I was not only not disappointed, I
was overjoyed with my choice - so thank you so much for that. I feel
very sure that we will want to invite you again at some future date,
and of course I will have no hesitation in recommending you to any
colleagues in other parts of the country who might want similar
training.
From Penny Dunscombe,
Somerset Schools INSET.
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INSETS
As a Performing Arts
lecturer in a Scottish College of Further Education, I attended the
recent Vocal Process Musical Theatre Intensive Course at the RSAMD
Glasgow. This three-day course allowed me to observe at first hand,
new and innovative singing and performance techniques and explore
them in relation to my own teaching style. Many of us work in
isolation within our own educational establishments and find few
opportunities for professional development in Scotland. I would
encourage other teachers and lecturers involved in the training of
young acting and musical theatre students to familiarise themselves
with Vocal Process with a view to expanding their knowledge of
current trends and practices in this field. A motivating experience!
From Gillian Archibald, Performing Arts lecturer
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more about 'Musical Theatre Intensive'
The techniques
presented in all the sessions were accessible, immediately tangible
and offered a deeper understanding of solid, healthy vocal technique
both for singing and for speaking.
From Rena Cook
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the Actor Training'
Voice coach
Gillyanne Kayes has achieved excellent diction – vital if all the
nuances of the text are to be conveyed to the audience.
From The Times
Educational Supplement, National Youth Music Theatre
production of The Beggar's Opera.
Read Gillyanne's biography
An excellent guide
to the whole horrible process. A positive, clear manner... stuffed full
of real-life stories. What other book has to give advice to the
classically trained ballet dancer and the hardened rock and roller?
Thoroughly recommended.
From William Relton,
'The Singer' Magazine
October/November 2002.
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more about 'Successful Singing Auditions'
Exceptional clarity.
It’s an achievement unlike anything else I’ve yet met in the field.
A must for all who teach musicals and music theatre, and a bit of
lemon zest for any reader.
From David Lennox,
The Association of Teachers of Singing
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more about 'Singing and the Actor'
The multi-disciplinary voice training company Vocal Process has
developed a unique approach to voice over the last five years.
From 'Opera Now'
Magazine, November/December 2002.
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Filled with useful
exercises. The general thrust of the book is excellent – I’d highly
recommend it to anyone who teaches. Really worthwhile. It’s clear
and well written, and provides sound exercises towards achieving
other western timbres.
From Barb Jungr,
'The Singer Magazine'
August/September 2000.
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more about 'Singing and the Actor'
Having the 'Singing
and the Actor' book will be most useful for reference (and
interesting reading!) in the clinic.
From Barbara Preston
(SLT)
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more about 'Singing and the Actor'
It's made my voice
more marketable. I never expected to get it by the end of one day!
From Amanda
Leigh-Smith, West End singer
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about 'Belting Explained'
The time went very
quickly! Having two facilitators who worked so well together was
excellent. Gave me loads to think about and try out.
From Sarah Jane
Strachan, West End actress
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about 'Belting Explained'
“I was very excited
by this work and believe it to be an essential way forward in the
evolution of voice. Rena says she will be back; don’t miss it when
she returns ….... be open to the possibility of more from the voice,
your teaching and your students…more life, more sound, more voice
and authenticity!”
Felicity Cook,
Singer and Singing Teacher
on 'Release Your Voice Through Movement'
Huge amount of info!
Masterclass helped pull it all together, hearing how tweaking styles
made dramatic differences to voices. I loved the computer analysis!
The almost instant feedback (and being able to hear the sound along
with the graphics) made so much sense to my mind. I feel I now have
a great toolkit.
From Anne Murphy,
choral animateur
on 'Voice Styles Intensive'
An excellent course.
Feedback at the SIG was fantastic. Everyone was most impressed.
From Clare
Stevenson, organiser Voice and Laryngectomy SIG in Northern Ireland
on 'Voice Styles Intensive'
Having left what
passed for a singing voice behind with the school choir, I didn’t
expect to find myself driving home retracting, anchoring and half
opening my port (a la Ronan Keating, apparently). Raising the plane
and belting have proved somewhat beyond me but I’ve since also
practised raising and lowering my larynx and going for the top notes
with n and ng together – and my children have enjoyed me cackling
like a witch in pursuit of a twang.
From Avril Nicoll,
from the Speech and Language Therapy in Practice magazine.
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Helped me piece
together lots of fragments and bits of conflicting information from
many sources. Best value course I have done for a long time. I wish
it was a three day course though!
From Sally Brown on
'Voice Lab'
Excellent – one of
the most interactive courses (other than pure sport) it’s possible
to imagine.
From John Roddam on
'Voice Lab'
“Brilliant day
thoroughly enjoyed it and came away quite confident that I'd grasped
the basic concepts of phonetics”
From Sue Lampard,
Choral Trainer
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about 'Practical Phonetics'
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