We know what you want!
How do we know this? All four of us teachers are singers too, and it’s likely that we’ve wanted something in our voices that you want, too. As singers we understand the struggles, challenges and feelings that go along with learning to sing, which means we can really connect and empathise with our students.
Through our years of looking for answers, along the way we’ve tried out different techniques, tricks and tips to get a better singing voice, and that natural journey lead us to where we are today.
We found a vocal technique that worked, with immediate results for all four of us, and have stayed with it ever since.
Okay, so what experience do you have?
Tom is an Advanced Instructor with IVA, and has taught singing lessons for 15 years. He works with singers from age 12 upwards in all genres.
Laura is an Advanced Instructor with IVA, has a Masters degree in Music and has taught singing lessons for 12 years. She works with professional and ‘amateur professional’ singers aged 16+, and specialises in musical theatre. She is also our resident stage fright coach, specialising in coaching singers and performers who need that extra bit of help to perform better.
Nell is an IVA Instructor in Training in her third and final year. She has taught singing lessons for two years, and works with singers at all levels of experience, genres and background. She is also absolutely wonderful with our SEND students of all ages!
We all have extensive performance backgrounds, although none of us are currently performing professionally – our passion is teaching!
What about your education and training?
Musical Theatre Class at IVA Teacher’s Conference 2018
Our training with IVA requires that we, as teachers, must train our own voices as singers and continually develop and expand our knowledge and expertise in the vocal world.
Every 12 months we have undertake at least 20h of training in the IVA program, keeping our knowledge up to date on vocal science & technique, performance style and technique and any new developments that come out in that year.
We also have our own vocal training to do, our voices need to be in shape to be able to teach you effectively. And at the end of the 12 months, we have to prove that we are capable and competent at teaching what we’ve learned, by passing 2h of teaching and vocal exams.
Outside of that, we are complete vocal nerds and will devour anything we find interesting relating to our field. Between us we have a library of books and journals that we use to keep our knowledge up to date, and we are cross-skilled in our respective interests.
We take lessons from other teachers to keep our own voices in shape, and attend webinars taught by respected people in the vocal world. Most recently we’ve been captivated by webinars from the likes of Andrew Byrne & Kerrie Obert, learning about how the body influences singing and what we can do to work with it as a whole.
But, how does that help me?
Your Voice Studio is dedicated to your voice. We exclusively focus on vocal training and related niches, and don’t teach any other instruments or music theory.
We are committed to teaching wholistic voice lessons – singing lessons that take into consideration your whole self. Because, when you sing, you sing with all parts of you, not just your voice. You are your instrument and we understand that you bring all parts of yourself to your lesson.
There’s no fluff or boring stuff. Everything we teach is practical and applicable in the moment.
We will teach you enough information so that you understand how your voice works and why it does what it does, without wasting your time with long-winded explanations.
We focus on getting you to experience the feeling for yourself, rather than explain how it feels – we are all different humans so what we feel might be totally different to you!
As one of our students, you have direct access to a global network of singing teachers. IVA has 300+ teachers on six continents around the world, so the wealth and breadth of the experience we have access to is staggering! If you ask a question we don’t know the answer to, we’ll go and find out for you.
Being part of that global network of teachers means that there is no question that hasn’t already been asked, so why don’t you get in touch and get the answers you seek?