Teaching

I am a busy professional solo opera and concert singer over a broad repertoire, but I am having increasing success in my singing teaching.

I spent 5 years at the renowned Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, studying Singing with Patrick McGuigan, gaining both my Graduate and Performance Diplomas with Distinction. I won all the song prizes there and even when I immediately started my singing career (1985), I also started teaching singing on a one-to-one basis whilst continuing to study myself with Margaret Hyde, Nicholas Powell, Paul Hamburger and latterly Noelle Barker and Michelle Wegwart.

I teach singing both privately and for many years at the Birmingham Conservatoire , where I am now one of the senior voice tutors. I have also taught at the University of Warwick and have also, recently, begun teaching at Rugby School.

Additionally, I act as an External Examiner at my alma mater, the Royal Northern College of Music and am also one of the main adjudicators at the Welsh National Eisteddfod.

I am a member of the British Voice Association.
I am DBS checked.