Elevate your teaching skills and voice knowledge

A training program for singing teachers, vocalists, producers and like-minded voice professionals

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If you are considering working with voices as part of your creative portfolio, are a singing teacher starting out, or perhaps you feel you may require a skill refresh or update, we welcome you to join the Working With Voices program (online course due for release; waitlist currently) or train 1-1 with our studio director, Dr. Veronica Stewart

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From starting or growing your voice-related business, through to voice science, teaching strategies and a wealth of resources to use in your own teaching practice, Vee can help guide you in discovering your own unique teaching and coaching style.

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Here are some of the topics covered in these sessions, and in the upcoming online course:

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Practical and functional voice science, musicianship and pedagogical skills

• A practical and functional understanding of vocal physiology and holistic modalities used in voice and singing

• Diagnostic skills and improved critical listening skills: how to hear what your client needs to change in order to sing well

• Acoustics of human sound

• Musicianship and music concepts to singers of different levels: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced and Artistic levels

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Building positive and quality student and client relationships

• Teaching lessons, lesson plans and navigating student/client relationships

• Vocalist client archetypes and how these concepts relate to the singer, the teacher, and the studio

• How to build good quality teaching relationships that support varied and diverse student needs

• Ethics, privacy and values within the studio

• How to (and why) avoid student co-dependency and support independent, artistically creative outcomes

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Business skills and building a sustainable studio and creative practice:

• Learn how to grow a sustainable creative practice around your strengths as a creative singer and musician

• How to market your services

• Business and financial practices and frameworks

• Collaborative teaching skills and how to work across performance, education and allied health fields

• Crucial child-safety practices and how to understand and implement child-safety legislation into your creative/studio practice

• Important Legal practices

• Troubleshooting: What to do when things don't work in your studio or creative practice

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Work with Voice Lecturer, Researcher & Studio Director, Dr. Veronica Stewart:​

Veronica's portfolio as a contemporary singing and voice teacher, performer, studio founder, researcher and lecturer is both broad and in-depth. Starting from a home studio in 2005, the Sydney Voice Studio has now served thousands of students nationally and internationally, sharing the art of singing and creative voice.

 

Vee has presented on her research and related voice/singing topics in Australia, Hong Kong, Brazil and Sweden, and has been featured in The Sunday Telegraph, Body + Soul and Australian Voice. She has held positions as contemporary voice lecturer within the postgraduate studies for The Australian Institute of Music, and as a long-standing sessional academic at Macquarie University, with over a decade of experience in teaching, facilitation and the nuanced delivery of content to her students.

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To learn more about Veronica, view her bio here.

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Who is this is for?

​This is for you, if you align with the following:

• You currently have or are beginning a creative practice with a studio coaching/teaching component, full-time, part-time, or as a side-gig

• Work within contemporary singing styles, such as Pop, Rock, R&B, Soul, Folk, The Blues, Jazz, Fusion and contemporary forms of Musical Theatre

• Are a singing teacher looking to deepen your knowledge about the ins and outs of singing itself, but already have some foundational knowledge about the singing voice.

• Are a voice-related professional who runs a creative practice or studio, and who works with singing voices a lot. You might find it frustrating communicating with singers in ways they understand, or would like to understand how contemporary singing is explored by elite singers.

• You want to learn how to financially, legally and ethically protect your creative practice and studio.​