2021: It’s finally over
I fear this might have become a tradition now, but here is my blog review of 2021, possibly one of the worst years in living memory for many, many people. If you’ve made it this far that you’re able to read this tedious tale of a very trying year…
CoLab - Day 5 (Friday 19th February 2021)
For the final day of CoLab, we started the session at 11am with an improvisation workshop led by our group mentor and member of the jazz voice professorial staff, Trudy Kerr. In the session, we worked as a group…
CoLab - Day 4 (Thursday 18th February 2021)
At 11am, we started day 4 of CoLab and began with a discussion on the work we had completed the previous day. The groups concluded that the work on the contemporary scores required more time to edit and record. As a result…
CoLab - Day 3 (Wednesday 17th February 2021)
Day three of CoLab began at 11am and we started the session by looking at the work produced by all five groups. There was such an amazing array of work, but two interpretations that I found particularly interesting…
CoLab - Day 2 (Tuesday 16th February 2021)
The second day of CoLab started at 11am and it began with a group discussion. As a group, we thought about different topics we might want to explore in the week…
CoLab - Day 1 (Monday 15th February 2021)
Every year at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance an event takes place in the spring term called ‘CoLab’. During this week, performers from every discipline at the college are invited to collaborate…
2020: A reflection
It has been exactly a year since I wrote here last and despite my best intentions, I haven’t been able to bring myself to type anything. The first reason is possibly because my last blog post has aged like milk…
2020 - New year, new me?
To say that I won’t miss 2019 is an understatement. I think we can all recall a year that we might refer to as our annus horribilis and 2019 has been it for me. I can’t remember a more trying year and at times it has been filled with nonstop bad news. Whilst I’ve dealt with my own trials and grief…
G+S: Grief and Singing (Something slightly worse than Gilbert and Sullivan...)
When I was at university and studying for my final exams, I had a terrible bout of acid reflux and my singing teacher at the time passed on the following words of wisdom:
‘A happy voice is a healthy voice’.
Mezzo to Soprano
I’m sure some of you know that over the past few months I have been transitioning from mezzo-soprano to soprano. I wanted to blog about it as I have finally found myself in a position where I feel comfortable in my voice and new found fach. To give you some background on what led to this transition…