Singing Teachers Talk

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 w...

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 discuss...

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 confi...

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 li...

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...

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...

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 ou...

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 teache...

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 p...

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 fro...

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...

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 there. This event was a turning point for Mindy as it took her down an unexpected path. As a teacher, she was already exploring and building on her technique and teaching skills,...

Line Hilton talks to BAST Trainer 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 - he says she was part of a package deal of singing lessons he had with her father! Gareth talks about the lessons he learnt from building 3 singin...

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 Ian discuss the benefits and constraints of being a part of a specific teaching methodology. They both trained as Speech Level Singing teachers initially. Ian recently...

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 general nurse (something she and Line have in common), the differences she's noticed in singing students in the different locations she's worked in (USA & UK) and Lisa asks Line how she maintains he...

In our inaugural Teachers On Teaching podcast, BAST founder, Line Hilton, talks to BAST Trainer, Kaya Herstad Carney. They discuss her singing journey, becoming a teacher (by being thrown in at the deep end), how her MA helped her teaching, working with choirs, teaching vocal technique in a classroom setting and how working with people recovering from addiction taught her a humbling lesson. Kaya a...