Understand your voice! From principles to practice.

Join Speech and Language Therapist Catherine Schofield for a talk and workshop and learn how the voice works, how to keep it healthy and practical ways to warm up and cool down your voice. This session hopes to equip you to maintain a flexible voice that will reflect your thoughts and feelings throughout your career.

Date: Saturday 12th October

Time: 10am - 12noon

Location: The Adelphi Room, The Crucible Theatre

Further info:

This talk and workshop will be led by voice specialist Speech and Language Therapist, Catherine Schofield. She hopes to create a relaxed and positive environment for people to enjoy the process of learning and exploring their voices. In this session you will learn:

• How the voice works and the foundation principles that will inform your focus during practical warm-ups and cool-downs.
• The factors that commonly affect voices and ways of managing them.
• Exercises to warm the voice up pre-performance and cool down post-performance.
• Techniques will include: a range of semi-occluded vocal tract exercises, vocal tract widening techniques, ways to establish clear tone and reset modal voice quality.

Biography:

Catherine is a Speech and Language Therapist who specialises in voice rehab at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust (NHS). She originally trained as a singer at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where she became fascinated with the connection between the spoken and sung voice and in vocal health and pedagogy.

Catherine went on to explore multiple ways of understanding and working with voices before she decided to retrain as a Speech and Language Therapist. She is passionate about sharing the knowledge she’s acquired to empower performers to understand their voices both theoretically and practically, so they can remain vocally confident and continue to share their important work.

Her work is informed by the following training and experiences:

MSc in Human Communication Science (University of Sheffield)

BMus in Vocal Studies (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama)

Voice for performance- evening course (Central School of Speech and Drama)

Voice coaching placement – 6 weeks with Deborah Garvey (RADA, previously CSSD)

Professional voice user's placement – 12 sessions with “The Voice Doctor” (Mr Declan Costello, consultant laryngologist)

Clinical voice disorders placement – with Marianne Bos-Clarke (Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, NHS)

Estill courses – Level 1 & 2 (Anna-Marie Speed)

Estill figure proficiency training (Gillian McLaren Scott)

Periods of regular voice tutoring from coaches:

• Paul Farrington (classical set up)
• Tim Richards (musical theatre set up)
• Gillian McLaren Scott (musical theatre/contemporary set up)
• Peridot Hill (Estill figure proficiency coaching)

Laryngeal Manual Therapy training (Ed Blake and inhouse at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals)

Motivational interviewing training (advanced)

Working at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals in the clinical voice disorders team, gender identity service, head and neck cancer team and acute wards team.

Previous experience as a training performer, freelance workshop leader and singing teacher (DipABRSM in singing teaching).

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Sheffield Theatres, 55 Norfolk Street, Sheffield City Centre, United Kingdom