In this podcast Line Hilton talks to Joshua Alamu, a professional voice coach with over 15 years of experience as a singing teacher in the music and television industry. He has been a voice coach for the TV talent shows… Read More »Ep.12 Little Mix’s vocal coach on working with artists under pressure with Joshua Alamu
This podcast is a bit different as I am talking to recent BAST Graduate, Matt Thorns, about his journey. Matt started out singing as a six-year-old chorister in Oxford. He talks about his vocal experience going through puberty. He then… Read More »Ep.11 Just getting started, a new teacher’s story with Matthew Thorns
Many of you will have already encountered this podcast’s guest, the humorous, John Henny. He’s a singing teacher and music school business owner and also provides training and education for singing teachers. His voice journey started when he realised that… Read More »Ep.10 Lessons learned along the way with John Henny
Singer and songwriter Whitney Nichole started her teaching studio back in 2008. Over the past 10 years, her studio has grown from a 2 person operation to 19 teachers, nearly 400 students, from babies and their mums to the elderly, in… Read More »Ep.9 Growing from a two person op to sixteen teachers in four locations with Whitney Nichole
Gemma Sugrue is one of those natural entrepreneurs. She started her own wedding singer business at college and on finishing her degree joined forces with a friend to set up a singing teaching studio, Voice Works, in Cork where they… Read More »Ep.8 The natural entrepreneur with Gemma Sugrue
From a humble beginning in a local choir to one of the most highly regarded vocal pedagogy in the UK and co-founder of the very popular The Naked Vocalist Podcast, Chris Johnson talks to Line Hilton about his journey… Read More »Ep.7 From hobby to career with Chris Johnson
In this podcast Line Hilton talks to BAST graduate, Sarah Nixey, who did the BAST course online with a trainer, Lisa Haupert. Sarah has extensive industry experience as a backing vocalist and signed artist as the lead singer of UK based,… Read More »Ep.6 The art of patience and the singing teacher with Sarah Nixey
Mindy Pack hails from Salt Lake City, Utah. She began singing professionally from a young age, taking up teaching as it seemed the right thing to do. Like many of us took her voice for granted until the day it wasn’t… Read More »Ep.5 Losing my voice was a turning point with Mindy Pack
Line Hilton talks to BAST Trainer, vocal coach and sound engineer Gareth Henderson. A British expat now ‘living the life in Perth, Australia, Gareth came to singing and teaching through lucky circumstance, and along the way scored his lovely wife, Louise –… Read More »Ep.4 Lessons learnt from building 3 teaching studios with Gareth Henderson
Line Hilton, talks to BAST Trainer, Ian Davidson who is based in Liverpool. They discuss his musical journey and how he became a singing teacher as a result of working for the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA). Line and… Read More »Ep.3 The pros and cons of teaching one methodology with Ian Davidson
Line Hilton, talks to BAST Trainer, Lisa Haupert. They discuss her musical journey from piano to singing, becoming a singing teacher after initially studying psychology then training as a Registered Nurse (something she and Line have in common), the differences… Read More »Ep.2 Keeping motivated as a singing teacher with Lisa Haupert
In our inaugural podcast, BAST founder, Line Hilton, talks to BAST Trainer, Kaya Herstad Carney. They discuss her singing journey, becoming a singing teacher (by being thrown in at the deep end). How her MA helped her teaching, working with choirs, teaching technique in a classroom setting. And how working with people recovering from addiction taught her a humbling lesson. Kaya asks Line how she would deal with a student who was getting inaccurate advice and teaching from another singing teacher.
Line and Kaya answer a BAST Grad’s question ” Can we look at how to apply exercises to songs? In other words, how can we help our students to work on their songs via scales, vowels etc. What should we look for in the song to choose the right exercises? And how can we help them perform the song? Use of dynamics, telling the story of the song etc.”
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EPISODE LINKS
The Amazing Slowdowner: Apple Store Google Play
LIPA (Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts: lipa.ac.uk
Mindset: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential by Carol Dweck: amazon.co.uk/Mindset-Updated-Changing-Fulfil-Potential/dp/147213995X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=mindset&qid=1623422136&s=books&sr=1-1
The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help. Amanda Palmer: amazon.co.uk/Art-Asking-learned-worrying-people/dp/0349408092
Actions: The Actor’s Thesaurus by Marina Caldarone and Maggie Lloyd-Williams: amazon.co.uk/Actions-Actors-Thesaurus-Marina-Caldarone/dp/1854596748
Read More »Ep.1 Getting started by getting thrown in the deep end with Kaya Herstad Carney
Transgender singers are currently on the forefront of voice pedagogy discussions. Emerald Lessley’s recent dissertation provides significant experiential evidence as well as addressing important medical and social concerns in working with this unique population. As trans individuals are increasingly able… Read More »Teaching the transgender voice
The BAST Singing Teacher’s Retreat 2016 was about as inspiring and uplifting a weekend as a vocal geek like me could hope for. My brain was filled to bursting with new science, research, techniques and teaching methodology. I left feeling invigorated by the people I’d met and the lectures… Read More »BAST Singing Teacher’s Retreat 2016 Review
Do you want to understand the differences between classical and non-classical responses to the Acoustic Landscape all singers inhabit? Well this webinar could be just what you’ve been looking for. For many years, voice teachers believed that the challenges of range and vocal registers were entirely… Read More »The Acoustic Landscape
You know that moment when you’re having a conversation with your student, and they’re so animated, and you’re having a great back and forth, and they’re totally acting like a human… and then they start singing and turn into a… Read More »Shifting Your Students from Over-Doing to Being Present
Stylistic differences remain one of the most challenging perceptual walls for singers. We hear an operatic soprano next to a belter and think they must just be built differently, or that they are simply talented and magically able to make… Read More »The Singer’s Secret To Crossing Between Styles
The term ‘vocology’ is being used increasingly in the voice and singing world. The word originates from voice scientist, Dr ingo Titze, who even has a book titled ‘Vocology. The Science and Practice of Voice Habilitation’. As singing teachers we deal… Read More »What Is Vocology?
From the age of 12 until 40, most of what I experienced as a voice student can best be described as voo-doo. I teach singing because no voice teacher or singing student or vocal artist should have to put up with voo-doo.
I cannot not sing and I’ve been doing that for all my life. A chronic sufferer of compulsory harmony disorder, and with at least two song ideas in my head at any time – singing teaching came as a natural yet unexpected progression of this.
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