Owner of the singing studio known as a ‘confidence haven’ Gia Morgan joins host Alexa Terry on this week’s Singing Teachers Talk Show. Find out all about how Gia uses a holistic approach to teach contemporary vocal techniques and performance skills, as well as how she uses affirmation to grow her students. EPISODE RESOURCES BAST Training https://www.basttraining.com/bast-course-description Singing Teacher’s Talk Podcast: Episode 32 - The Bio-Psycho-Social Model with Stephen King Virtual Fireplac...
Nov 17, 2021•33 min•Ep. 36
In this episode, vocal coach Norwood reveals how his business, Transitions Voice Lab, flourished after he made one important change to his marketing strategy. Norwood also explains how to identify your USP as a singing teacher, how to juggle teaching and a pro singing career and ways to make your studio welcoming to the LGBTQ+ community. EPISODE RESOURCES RAab Stevenson kimadproductions.com/?page_id=663 Line Hilton inehilton.com/voice-performance-coaching BAST Training basttraining.com/bast-cour...
Nov 10, 2021•31 min•Ep. 35
Professional singer, actor, dancer, voice-over recording artist Philippe Hall joins Alexa on Singing Teachers’ Talk this week to discuss emotional layering, the most neglected skill in vocal training. How do you add those emotional layers into your voice and how do you teach others to do so? Listen in and find out. SHOW RESOURCES BAST Community Discount Offer Link (expires 14th November 2021): singingrevealed.com/bast_special_offer_emotional_layering Alexa’s Performance Choice: Send in the Clown...
Nov 03, 2021•44 min•Ep. 34
As you may or may not know we like to give you our reviews of resources and books as recommendations for you to add to your list, or sometimes leave off the list. And in this podcast, Alexa will be giving her review of The Chimp Paradox by Professor Steve Peters and explaining why she believes it's a book every adult could benefit from, as well as why the model is so easily applicable to coaches. KEY TAKEAWAYS The likes of Sir Chris Hoy, Steven Gerrard, and Sir Bradley Wiggins have all advocated...
Oct 26, 2021•13 min•Ep. 33
Owner of the Voice Care Centre in London’s West End, Stephen King drops in to chat with Alexa about all things Harry Potter, pasta, and what on earth The Bio-Psycho-Social Model actually is. SHOW RESOURCES George Engel and the BioPsychoSocial Model Robert Sussuma: http://www.robertsussuma.com Carl Rogers and Person Centred Therapy Dr Jenevora Williams: https://jenevorawilliams.com Brenda Shankey: https://www.brendashankey.net Chloe Spencer (no electronic link) Lydia Flock: https://www.flockstars...
Oct 19, 2021•55 min•Ep. 32
Are you looking to learn how to reach your ideal client through digital marketing, or want to know more about targeting audiences with digital marketing? Then this week’s episode of Singing Teachers Talk is for you. Join host Alexa Terry and guest, vocal coach Candi Louise as they chat everything from jam donuts, to social media, to the movie Die Hard. KEY MOMENTS ‘It takes a good coach to identify what you’re not good at’ ‘Social media strikes fear into anyone's heart’ ‘The more you do it, the ...
Oct 12, 2021•46 min•Ep. 31
Internationally renowned leading voice teacher John Henny joins host Alexa Terry on this episode of Singing Teachers Talk. Hear all about John’s Covid scare and the brain fog that comes along with it. Join the discussion on acoustics, passive income, and find out what ‘the teaching triangle’ actually is. Find all the referenced talking points under the ‘Show Resources’ section. KEY TAKEAWAYS A singing teacher needs to understand how the vocal cords work. You have to develop the ability to know h...
Oct 05, 2021•38 min•Ep. 30
This week on Singing Teachers Talk, host Line Hilton will be talking to you about asking those awkward health questions, what questions we need to ask, why we need to ask them, and how we should go about doing it. KEY TAKEAWAYS It’s important to get the background health history of someone’s voice so you know what it’s capable of and how long it might last. Remember to be up to date with your GDPR procedures when storing any information about students and avoid having handwritten notes. One of t...
Sep 28, 2021•30 min•Ep. 29
It’s the return of Singing Teachers Talk! What are the six fundamentals of singing? That’s just one of the topics of conversation on the podcast this week. Alexa Terry is joined by guest Rachel Lynes, vocal coach and ex-West End performer. Find out all about how and why Rachel founded Sing Space, home of the world's first online Vocal Gym. KEY TAKEAWAYS Are you aware of your resonance? Can you feel that tangible thing within your body? All of the muscles in your body are connected. For example, ...
Sep 21, 2021•49 min•Ep. 28
Becky Gilhespie has had an interesting journey from singing, to teaching to cheffing, and now, as a result of Covid-19 back to teaching singers again. A Masterchef semi-finalist, Becky talks about her journey and how her diversion into the world of cheffing and food informs her teaching these days. Recently Becky has taken her experience of being a self-conscious singer and written a practical book, “Singing for the Self-Conscious”, to help singing teachers and singers who suffer from the same i...
Sep 05, 2020•41 min
During the Covid 19 lockdown, Nigel has been very busy helping college students to finish off their performance years, online. Having never taught online he discusses the challenges he's encountering and how he's dealing with them. He advises how a teacher can help the student prepare for college auditions. Nigel discusses the vocal and physical challenges he encountered whilst playing the lead role in Phantom of the Opera, travelling and performing, his pet performer peeves and how he deals wit...
Jun 18, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Nutritionist and author, Stephanie Moore is a powerhouse of nutritional and health information. It's becoming more and more accepted that health and wellbeing begins from the inside. Stephanie and Line discuss how gut health impacts not only the performer's general health but also their brain  health and function. Do you experience 'brain fog'? Well, this could be down to your gut health. Stephanie gives advice on how we can help singers understand the impact of their general health and wellbei...
May 21, 2020•1 hr 7 min
Natalie Andreou's CV includes lead roles in West End and touring shows as varied as Rock Of Ages, Wicked, Mama Mia and Evita. She and Line discuss the various pathways to the West End, the challenges and joys of the job - vocally, mentally and physically. Other topics they discuss include the various vocal qualities required in MT, belt, vocal health, vibrato, dealing with costume and staging challenges. They also discuss Natalie's teaching practice including how she went about increasing her pr...
Dec 23, 2019•57 min
One of the things that we love about Dr Jenevora Williams is her open, intelligent and enquiring mind. She has contributed to the BAST Training webinar library and past live training events. In this interview, we find out more about what makes Jenevora tick. She talks about her journey which started as a Botany undergrad, to becoming an opera singer, then getting a PhD in voice science. Her research was around male chorister voices as they went through puberty. Naturally, this then led her to wr...
Dec 22, 2019•52 min
Dr Meribeth Dayme is a familiar name to many singing teachers. From her detailed but comprehensible books on vocal anatomy, The Performer's Voice and Dynamics of the Singing Voice, to her holistic and energy-based approach to singing and vocal training, CoreSinging®, thousands of singers have benefited from Dr Dayme's passion for voice and treating the singer as a 'whole'. A pioneer in the world of singing pedagogy, Dr Dayme has been instrumental in helping singing teachers understand the role o...
Nov 25, 2019•44 min
Stephen King started his performance career with great promise. On the road to a dance and MT career, Stephen had to take a dramatic turn away from performing after a serious knee injury. With all the physical therapy and medical attention he received Stephen found himself pulled into the world of manual therapy and decided to combine it with singing teaching. Stephen has worked as a vocal coach and MD for 20+ productions as well as being a residential teacher for a variety of colleges and acade...
Oct 31, 2019•51 min
In this podcast Line Hilton talks to Laurel Irene and Dr David Harris from VoiceScienceWorks. These two met several years ago at Dr Ingo Titze's Summer Vocology Institute at the National Center for Voice & Speech and have not been apart since! In the beginning, like many singers and singing teachers, they struggled to translate the scientific knowledge into practical strategies for their voices and the voices of those that they worked with. So they set about to unravel the complexities of vo...
Sep 27, 2019•35 min
Now based in Melbourne, Australia, Lisa Perks started her singing and teaching career in the UK. In this podcast, she talks about moving to a new country as a well established singing teacher, and having to completely start over with her teaching practice. One of the ways she built her new business was to put on singing and training events. Lisa shares some of the benefits and the lessons learnt from putting on major events. As with many singing teachers today Lisa has begun to take a more holis...
Aug 29, 2019•1 hr 3 min
This podcast's guest is Manchester-based vocal coach Hannah Smikle. Hannah attended the Brit School and talks about her experience giving advice on how a singing teacher can help prepare a student who wants to, or is attending a performing arts school like this. As a teacher she got thrown into the job, quickly realising she had many gaps. Hannah talks about how she started to fill these teaching gaps including the BAST Singing Teacher Retreat, where felt she, "found her people". As well as the ...
Jul 27, 2019•59 min
If you're a fan of The Naked Vocalist podcast then this guest's voice will be a familiar one to you. Line Hilton chats with Steve Giles who is a vocal coach, member of the board of directors and authorised coach for Vocology in Practice and co-founder and co-host of the world’s leading singing podcast, The Naked Vocalist. Steve was very chatty (caffeine may have been involved!) about a wide range of topics from his thwarted career as a footballer, to his unexpected journey into singing and then ...
Jun 28, 2019•53 min
You may already have seen Ryan Luchuck in his two-part webinar series in the BAST Training Membership and Store, where he breaks down voice science for beginners. Multitalented Ryan, sings, plays the keys, guitar, and a variety of other instruments as well as being a sound engineer and producer. All of this he puts to good use in his teaching practice. In the podcast, we have a fascinating discussion around a variety of topics from how he lost his voice due to poor technique and decided to stop ...
May 20, 2019•1 hr 4 min
Not to be confused with singer/songwriter, Cat Stevens, Kat Stephens is a singing teacher and owner of Aspire Arts Academy in Towcester. As with many teachers, Kat is trying to balance home life with business. Her academy, aspireartsacademy.uk enrols around 100 students a term and along with this and her privates, Kat also runs a choir for hobby singers. Her passion is to help people grow in confidence and attain healthy mental health through singing. Kat talks about her challenges with the busi...
Apr 16, 2019•46 min
In this podcast we hear from singing teacher & Intuitive Confidence Coach, Lilli Badcock. Lilli started performing arts at a dancing school as a child but found herself wanting to sing the song rather than dance to it. Lilli talks about her journey from singer, to choir leader, singing teacher and now confidence coach. After having experienced a considerable amount of anxiety throughout her life Lilli had to do a lot of work to overcome these dark periods. Her new purpose came after one part...
Mar 31, 2019•55 min
Like many singing teachers, Juliet Russell juggles a variety of hats including being a singer/songwriter, a vocal coach, choir director and music festival organiser. As well as running her own practice working with artists, Juliet loves to work with choirs, recently arranging and featuring in the Pamper's tribute to midwives with Paloma Faith on lead vocals. Juliet is a vocal coach on two of the UK’s biggest entertainment shows; ITV’s The Voice and BBC1’s Michael McIntyre’s Big Show. Line and Ju...
Feb 15, 2019•34 min
In this podcast Line Hilton talks to Joshua Alamu, a professional vocal coach with over 15 years experience as a singing teacher in the music and television industry. He has been a voice coach for the TV talent shows such as The Voice UK and is currently working with acts such as Fleur East, Little Mix and JP Cooper. Joshua talks about his unexpected journey to becoming a vocal coach, the pros and cons of coming from a gospel background, how Ultimate Artists, an artist development summer program...
Jan 10, 2019•1 hr 10 min
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 moved into general performing arts and eventually music production and songwriting. He noticed that he was spending a lot of time helping singers to get the best out of their voices in the studio, and he was enjoying the role more and more. In the interview, Matt ...
Nov 16, 2018•1 hr 10 min
Many of you will have already encountered this podcast's guest, John Henny. He's a singing teacher and music school business owner and also provides training and education for singing teachers. His singing journey started when he realised that singing was going to give him the edger as a drummer. He was a part of the Speech Level Singing organisiation for many years, as one of the teacher training team that traveled around the world training SLS teachers. Eventually, he headed out on his own to ...
Sep 29, 2018•50 min
Singer and songwriter Whitney Nichole started her teaching studio back in 2008. Over the past ten years, her studio has grown from a two-person operation to nineteen teachers, nearly four hundred students and for locations. As you can imagine a lot has been learned along the way. Whitney tells us her story, how she grew the business, helped her teachers get on board with the Songbird values, her process of finding the right teacher for the studio and what she loves about running a business this ...
Sep 29, 2018•59 min
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 in Cork where they now have 300+ students, and are earning enough to employ a manager whilst she spends time on her own creativity as singer/songwriter. Gemma talks to Line Hilton about her journey from a naive 17 year old touring Australia with an Irish dance show, how she went about learning to sin...
Aug 23, 2018•36 min
From a humble beginning in a local choir to one of the most highly regarded vocal pedagogs in the UK and co-founder of the very popular The Naked Vocalist Podcast, Chris Johnson talks to Line Hilton about his journey from singing as a hobby to a career. Chris talks about his mistakes, challenges and victories, how he transitioned from being a small-town teacher to running an oversubscribed London teaching studio. Chris also talks about his vocal issues and how he dealt with them physically and m...
Jul 20, 2018•52 min
