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Throughout the Summer Teesside University’s School of Arts & Media is offering a series of highly subsidised workshops and courses to those working in the region’s creative industries.

Learn how the voice works and how to apply these techniques to your professional practices:
Understanding Vocal Technique is a one day workshop which explores how the human voice works and how an understanding of these principles can be applied to vocal performance and teaching.

Singing teacher, performer and workshop leader Rebecca Pedlow will demonstrate the different capabilities of the voice, exploring such subjects as it’s physiology, different voices and what happens when a voice breaks. These theories will be applied through a series of practical sessions throughout the day.

Rebecca will focus on essential breathing and posture exercises and demonstrate how vocal warm ups relate to vocal technique. Variances in different styles of singing will be investigated as she demonstrates the different approaches to the likes of folk, pop, opera and musical theatre.

Find out about further training opportunities and how you can earn money from your skills:
The workshop will culminate in a careers and personal development session where delegates will be signposted to further training and potential job opportunities. Understanding Vocal Technique delegates will leave with an awareness of the skills they need to develop to become a better performer or teacher. The workshop is ideal for performers, singing teachers, instrumentalists, community musicians, school teachers/assistants or anyone wishing to be introduced to, or have more understanding of, how the voice works.

One-off Highly subsidised cost – Book your place now:
The Understanding Vocal Technique workshop takes place in Teesside University’s Phoenix Building on Saturday 21^st August from 9.30am – 4.30pm. It is being subsidised by ECIF and Talent Solutions funding and is therefore offered at an introductory price of £49.99 (usually £170.00) to North East based SME businesses, freelancers and sole traders. Please call for eligibility information.

To book your place please contact James McDermott on 01642 738 089 or Email: j.mcdermott@tees.ac.uk

About Rebecca Pedlow:
Rebecca Pedlow has spent the past 20 years working as a singing teacher, workshop leader, Arts Manager and Project Leader. She studied music (BSc Hons Degree) at The City University, London which included vocal tuition at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Following a brief career in Film and Video Post Production in Soho in London, she worked as a professional Opera Singer with The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, and as a session singer recording Musicals at Abbey Road Studios.  She has taught singing and led choirs with Greenwich Community College, The Sage Gateshead, Middlesbrough Council and College and leads the Stockton Silver Singers at ARC, Stockton. Organisations she has worked for in arts administration and management include the Royal Festival Hall, London Bubble Theatre Company, The Sage Gateshead, Creative Partnerships Tees Valley, Middlesbrough Council, MusicLeader North East and Middlesbrough Town Hall. Rebecca has had a life-long interest in vocal technique, having studied formally with teachers such as Gillian Knight and Phillipa Dames Longworth, and attended training delivered by Frankie Armstrong, the Natural Voice network and Vocal Process. She is particularly interested in singing and health and is working on a Singing and Dementia project in Stockton called Mindful of Music.