Voice Coaching / Singing Lessons - Proffesional to Beginner Level - Spoken Voice (inc. accent) or Singing

From 58 € /h

Singing Lessons:

ABOUT
Voice / Singing Lessons are spaces for one to come into a deeper, more informed and confident relationship with singing and voice use, offering an enriching and transformative space to explore and develop as a singer.

What we might explore:

-Coming into an awareness of fundamental vocal anatomy :
Developing awareness of the voice, its structures and its functionality as well as its relationship to the body and its systems.
-Identifying one’s own ‘Attractor State’:
Coming to understand as an individual the habitual tendencies of one's own voice use and the potentials and limitations of those malleable tendencies.
-Becoming equipped with practical and effective tools to promote ease, resonance and efficiency while singing:
Harnessing the tools of Alexander Technique and neuroscientific application to becoming empowered in practices that release tension and allow for more easeful and skillful singing.
-Working Stylistically With Repertoire:
in styles inc. folk, jazz, pop, soul/r&b, light opera/legit, music theater or text. This can also include becoming adept in harmonizing and exploring different theories of music.
-Becoming equipped with tools for anxiety/stage fright .
An offering of tools that allow the hormonal, nervous and musculo-skeletal systems to regulate during times of high stress or anxiety with using voice in a public setting.

VOICE

Voice / Art of Speaking workshops are spaces for individuals to develop skills in voice use and public speaking. Workshops are catered to the desired outcome and can suit proffessional or developing actors, space holders/facilitators or public speakers of any kind. Classes offer a safe, enriching and transformative space to explore and develop as voice users.

WHAT WE MIGHT EXPLORE
-Coming into an awareness of fundamental vocal anatomy A brief introduction to the anatomical functionality of the voice, its structures as well as its relationship to the body and its systems.
-Developing resonance Harnessing the tools of Alexander Technique and neuroscientific application to promote the resonance of voice in the body. This has to do with the tone/volume of the voice.
-Practicing Articulation Coming into relationship with practicing efficient articulation. This has to do with clarity/ being understood.
-Becoming equipped with tools for anxiety/stage fright . An offering of tools that allow the hormonal, nervous and musculo-skeletal system to regulate during times of high stress or anxiety with using voice in a public setting.
-Identifying one’s own ‘Attractor State’ Coming to understand as an individual the habitual tendencies of one's own voice use, of which are influenced by varying factors e.g. dialect/accent, health, gender etc.

Extra information

Singing Students:
Please bring a song you are comfortable and familiar with to our first session.

Voice Students:
Please bring a piece of text you are familiar with i.e. a poem or small piece of prose.

Location

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At student's location :

Around Neukölln, Germany

At teacher's location :

Essential- Tinyhouse, Oppelner Straße, Berlin, Germany

Online from Germany

About Me

Jessie is a musician, dancer and teacher painting with the brushes of voice and body. Berlin-based Jessie studied a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Music Theatre, at Victorian College of The Arts, in Melbourne, Australia, under some of the industry's leading voice and dialect coaches; Leif Mcpherson (Lord of the Rings) and Andrew Byrne (author of ‘The Singing Athlete’). She has since descended and spread widely into the somatic fields of Alexander Technique, contemporary dance/release pedagogy and brain based voice training. Her workshops encompass a neuro-scientific harvest of practices and exercises that promote ease and develop articulation, un-inhibiting the body from patterns of tension, allowing the voice to resonate and articulate, all in service of clarity and inspiration.

Education

University of Melbourne - Bachelor of Fine Arts - Music Theatre

Private Ongoing Tuition, Andrew Byrne, Dr Heather Fletcher (Phd)
2016 - PRESENT
Dr Heather Fletcher -Lecturer in Music (The University of Melbourne)
Andrew Byrne - Author of ‘The Singing Athlete’, broadway vocal coach

Experience / Qualifications

Australian Institute of Music, Melbourne - Music BA (Hons)
2022

Teacher of voice at Melbourne’s leading tertiary music institution
Pieles Permeables, Berlin — Resident Voice Coach
March 2023 - PRESENT
Intensive and/or weekly voice training workshops with a Berlin-based contemporary dance collective. (Voice, Singing, Performance)
Church of Interbeing, Berlin — Voice Coach
March 2023
Coaching Hosts and Facilitators for a community run project offering services to the public. (Public speaking, Large Space, Lecture Skills)
Private Students , Berlin — Voice, Singing & Dialect Coach
Dec 2019 - PRESENT
Private Voice Coach for adults (professional to beginner) in singing coaching (technique, style and performance), voice coaching (for performers and corporate clients) and dialect/accent coaching (having trained under Lief McPherson - Lord of The Rings).
House Of Voice , Melbourne —Singing Teacher
2022 - PRESENT
Coaching private students (Children-Adult) in singing and song-writing.

EXPERIENCE (Teaching cont.)

Dandenong Ranges Steiner School , Melbourne —Teachers Aide
2022
Teacher’s Aide for Primary School students employing Steiner education principles and modalities inc. singing facilitation and reading assistance
Stage Left, Melbourne —Singing Teacher (Private and Group)
2016-2022
Private tutor for Melbourne Children’s Performing Arts School, and large group facilitation involving: Musical direction, choir leading, piano accompaniment.

The Language Farm, Germany —Music Master
2020-2022
Counsellor and Nature pedagogy facilitator on Children’s English Speaking Summer Camps in Germany involving: Conducting group sing-alongs three times per day (including one around the fire) + dialect coaching on English phonetics and accent training + song-writing workshops with teens.
The Center, Berlin —Acting and Music Theatre Teacher
2020-2022
Teacher of classes with Children aged 3-18 at Berlin’s English speaking Performing Arts School involving. Acting, singing and music theatre.

EXPERIENCE (Non-Music Theatre)
Jessie,
Avant-Folk Musician
Pop Up Records - 2023
Jessie is an established and well revered recording artist, currently signed to Hamburg label, Pop-Up Records. Monk has been a featured High Rotation artist on Triple J and Double J and heads a four piece avant-folk band who tours Europe wide to sold out audiences.
CERES, Dancing Through India
2019
Jessie partook in a month-long immersion, facilitating exchanges employing the Permaculture Principles, with communities around India, interacting through the medium of dance. Population groups included schools, communities, red-light districts, slums and performing arts organisations. CERES environment park helped to facilitate these exchanges, under the guidance of Freya List.

Age

Preschool children (4-6 years old)

Children (7-12 years old)

Teenagers (13-17 years old)

Adults (18-64 years old)

Seniors (65+ years old)

Student level

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Duration

60 minutes