Spring 2012 Conference
The Spring 2012 AOTOS conference will be held at King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham. For further information, please click:
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SpeakersJane HaughtonJane trained in piano and voice at Trinity College of Music. She later sang professionally with The Royal Opera House Chorus until 1996 and then went on to train as a vocal animateur in the ROH Education Department. She has run workshops for all the major opera companies and worked with Music for Life and ran a choir at HMP Wandsworth. Jane now enjoys a busy family life in West Sussex where she teaches voice at Ardingly College and runs local choirs for people aged 6 — 86 as well as continuing with opera projects at Glyndebourne and The Royal Opera house. Nicola-Jane KempNicola-Jane is a coloratura soprano (her signature role is "Queen of the Night") and has worked for companies as diverse as Music Theatre Wales, the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in France and BBC Radio 2 (Friday Night is Music Night). Her concert work takes her all round the UK — including the South Bank, Barbican and St John's Smith Square in London — and to the Middle East. She is a Grade/Diploma examiner for the ABRSM, an adjudicator for Music Festivals and currently teaches choral scholars at Clare and Queens' Colleges, Cambridge University and at St Paul's Girl's School in London. She is co-editor with Heidi Pegler of the award-winning series 'The Language of Song' (Faber Music), which provides a resource for students and teachers learning to sing in foreign languages. Christina Shewell MA, FRCSLT, ADVSChristina has worked for many years as Central School trained voice teacher, presentation skills coach, speech and voice therapist, and senior university lecturer at UCL in voice and counseling skills. During her years on the drama staff at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama she began to work as a consultant to singers in vocal difficulty, and has since become a specialist in this area. She is the originator of the Voice Skills approach to vocal training and restoration and teaches internationally to a variety of voice practitioners. Her book, 'Voice Work: Art and Science in Changing Voices' (2009), addresses voice work along the continuum of normal-abnormal voice, in singing, spoken voice coaching and voice pathology, and has received unanimously good reviews from all three professional groups. Clarification from the Council regarding the selling of books and CD’s at conferences:Anyone wishing to sell or publicise anything at any AOTOS event must seek the advance permission of both the chairman and the conference director, or in the case of local events, that of the area council representative. Thank you. The VenueThis year’s Spring Conference is at King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham. Use the map and other tools below to get directions to the venue if you are driving or get train times. Train TimesThe Nearest main rail station to King Edward VI High School for Girls is Birmingham New Street, you can change to get a further train to University Station which is a little closer. To get train times from your local train station, please use the form below… More InformationAll enquiries should be directed to the Conference Director:
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