There is a wide variety of classes to choose from throughout the week, from vocal lessons, acting classes and Lieder classes, to cabaret class, language coachings, and many more.
Accompanists and Duos: Jo Ramadan
Acting for Singers: Jacquie Crago
American Song: Dylan Perez
Art Song: Malcolm Martineau
Cabaret Class: Linda Ormiston
🆕 Command the Stage: Donald Maxwell
Concert Repertoire: Sarah Fox
Effective Learning Techniques: Ingrid Sawers
English Song: Will Vann
Chamber Music for Voice: Lorna Anderson, Richard Jackson
French Mélodie: Robin Bowman
Late Romantic Repertoire: Catherine Wyn-Rogers
Lieder Class: Richard Jackson
Masterclass: John Mark Ainsley, Karen Cargill, Marie McLaughlin, Ann Murray; Nicky Spence
Opera Scenes: Linda Ormiston & Donald Maxwell (directors) Martin Pickard (conductor)
Opera and Vocal Coaching: 🆕 Caroline Dowdle, Martin Pickard, Jo Ramadan, Sergey Rybin; Alice Turner
Operatic Masterclass: John Fisher
Performing as a Duo: Alice Turner
Russian Song: Sergey Rybin
Sacred and Baroque Repertoire: Lorna Anderson
🆕 Shakespeare in Song: Jacquie Crago
Song Cycles: French with Robin Bowman – Debussy’s Ariettes oubliées; American with Dylan Perez – Berstein’s I Hate Music and Spanish with Asier Rodriguez Saiz – selections for Granados’s Tonadillas en Estilo Antigüo
Spanish Diction: Asier Rodriguez Saiz
Voice Lessons: Christine Cairns, Wilma MacDougall; Russell Smythe
🆕 Unlocking IPA: Chad Vindin
Vocal Lessons – These are 30 minute, one-to-one lessons. Learn from some of the finest vocal technicians all under one roof.
🆕 Shakespeare in Song – Led by expert coach Jacquie Crago, whose work includes extensive experience with the Royal Shakespeare Company, this class explores Shakespeare-related repertoire in song, focusing on musical expression, dramatic intention, and performance clarity. Any repertoire in English is welcome.
Masterclass – Work with some of the world’s great opera and vocal performers in this advanced masterclass. Students should bring one or two prepared pieces to develop through expert coaching; with memorisation encouraged but not required.
🆕 Command the Stage with Donald Maxwell – A performance-focused class designed to help singers translate vocal technique into compelling dramatic presence. By working on physical intention, textual clarity, and expressive commitment, Donald will help singers learn to inhabit the stage with confidence and ensure their arias communicate with impact, both vocally and dramatically.
🆕 Unlocking IPA – An introduction to the International Phonetic Alphabet designed specifically for singers. This class covers IPA basics, how to use it effectively in practice, and how to translate phonetic clarity into confident, expressive singing.
Opera Scenes – An intensive programme where students are assigned extracts from operas. Throughout the week you will receive coachings from our staff pianists, music rehearsals with conductors, stage rehearsals with directors, culminating in a performance on the final day of the course. There will be coachings and rehearsals each day of the course to prepare you for the Opera Scenes Showcase, and you are expected to arrive at the course with your scenes memorised. IMPORTANT: If you are applying for Opera Scenes, you must submit a recording in advance of the course.
Ensemble classes – Participants will be assigned to small groups of duos, trios, or quartets and allocated repertoire by the class teachers in advance of the course. A great way to work with other students on repertoire by Brahms, Schubert, Mendelssohn and more!
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