Kate Cubley
Kate Cubley is a Vocal Coach and Buteyko Breathing Instructor who helps singers, public speakers, and corporate clients to enhance vocal performance and delivery. She takes a holistic approach, celebrating individual voices and prioritising health and wellbeing to ensure confident performances. Her expertise includes vocal technique, musicality, and expression.
Kate uses purposeful breathing techniques to enhance vocal agility, pitching, emotional delivery, and dynamic range while reducing anxiety and vocal strain. Conscious breathing strategies may help a vocalist to manage panic and performance anxiety, improve health and wellbeing and reduce the propensity for air hunger such as during long musical phrases. Her current research focuses on vocal health, allergies, nutrition, and breathing.
Kate is a PhD student at De Montfort University, an Associate Lecturer at Voice Study Centre, she teaches 1:1 voice lessons, runs a community singing group, and conducts regular voice and breath workshops.
Sally Dennis
Sally Dennis is a HCPC and RCSLT registered and BAPAM approved Voice Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) with 20 years experience of working with people who have been experiencing voice difficulties or ‘dysphonia’. She has a particular interest in voice therapy and vocal rehabilitation for the Professional Voice User, seeing patients in the NHS and in her private practice in Altrincham, Liverpool and at Spire Manchester. She currently works as Voice lead at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust seeing patients in voice therapy clinics and joint and SLT-led diagnostic laryngoscopy voice clinics including a dedicated specialist voice clinic for singers, performers and professional voice users together with Vocal Rehabilitation Coach Carrie Birmingham. She recently worked with the voice team and in the performer voice clinic at Manchester foundation trust in a temporary Consultant SLT role. She is passionate about person-centred care and values working within the context of the wider multi-disciplinary team. She utilises a range of voice therapy approaches in the assessment and treatment of voice difficulties, according to need.
Sally has been committed to developing her practice and services she works within, and engaging in continued professional development, including regularly attending and presenting at study days, courses and national conferences. She volunteers as co-secretary of the North West Voice Clinical Excellence Network whereby she identifies and arranges training opportunities for SLTs working in the clinical field of voice. She has delivered vocal health education sessions for health promotion for professional voice user groups including teachers and singing teachers, and as guest lecturer at the Royal Northern College of Music with undergraduate and postgraduate Vocal Studies students as part of their vocal mechanics modules.
She is looking forward to sharing the impact of application of the accent method in a clinical setting as a mechanism for vocal improvement.
Linda Hutchison
Linda Hutchison is a singing teacher and vocal rehabilitation coach. She is on the Vocal Staff of her Alma Mater, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she works with the singers and actors.
She is a member of the NHS Lewisham Voice Clinics’ team and runs her own rehabilitation clinics there. She is a BAPAM (British Association of Performing Arts Medicine) registered Vocal Rehabilitation Coach.
Her work in voice clinics began in 1997. It was there she first came across the Accent Method in practice. She did a course run by Kirsten Thyme Frøkjær while continuing to be guided and mentored by Sara Harris. She is co-author, with Dr Ron Morris of If in Doubt, Breathe Out, a book on breathing and support for singers based on the Accent Method.
As a performer, her operatic career started at the age of fourteen when she sang the role of Belinda in an open air production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. She began her professional career as a principal soprano of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, later freelancing in solo operatic, concert and oratorio work. She is a Vice President of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Great Britain.
Linda has been President of the British Voice Association, has been a member of its Education Working Party and has served on the Council of the Association of Teachers of Singing.
Barbara Amoakohene Pursey
Barbara is a skilled and creative vocal coach with over 18 years teaching and performance experience in popular contemporary music. Working with professional and aspiring singers, creative artists, occupational and professional voice users.
Barbara uses a bespoke package of holistic approaches in facilitating each client’s individual and specific needs. Tailoring sessions with a professional approach that builds upon and optimises the mind-body, breath and wellness connection essential for a sustainable voice.
Barbara’s versatility as a singer and coach, has led her to be involved in various music projects; these include, ITV, Michael McIntyre’s – Big Show on the BBC ‘Channel 4 – Comedy Gala Live at the O2, supporting Rich Hall with Sense of Sound, BBC Live Lounge: Paloma Faith Christmas Special with Jo Whiley and Starstruck, ITV.
As a backing vocalist, she has worked with acclaimed classical Violinist David Garrett on his crossover album ‘Virtuoso’ alongside producers Kevin Bacon and Johnathan Quamby (Sugababes, Pretenders, Finlay Quay Robert Palmer). She is currently an active member of Assemble Choir (Juliet Russell, Head Coach of The Voice UK) VoxCollective, Independent Music Collective, IMC and London International Gospel Choir, LIGC, where she has performed in many sold out shows at leading London venues including, The Jazz Café, XOYO, Shepherd’s Bush Empire and London O2.
As a vocal tutor and educator, Barbara has worked at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance, ICMP, one of Europe’s leading providers of popular music education for over 15 years. At ICMP, she has written and delivered a range of undergraduate modules covering Vocal Technique, Performance skills and General Musicianship Practice. She also runs a thriving vocal studio and several community based groups covering individual and group singing lessons and choir. All of which are designed to incorporate personal development and confidence building skills.
As a dedicated performance coach deeply invested in wellbeing and personal growth, Barbara embodies a passion for lifelong learning. Inspired by the adventurous spirit of Alice in Wonderland’s White Rabbit, she is perpetually diving into new explorations and discoveries in her quest as a seeker of knowledge, healing and personal alchemy – knowing there is so much more to learn.
Her areas of interest range from personal growth and mindset development, mental and vocal health awareness, human behavior, mindfulness, resilience & wellbeing. This dedication to continuous learning not only deepens her expertise but also enriches her coaching practice, making her services all the more impactful.
Abi Simpson
Abi Simpson is the Clinical Lead Specialist Speech and Language Therapist in ENT Laryngology, Airway Reconstruction and Voice in the Complex Laryngology service at Imperial College NHS Trust. Alongside Professor Guri Sandhu, she runs the tertiary voice clinic, holds a professional voice troubleshooting clinic with Pamela Hay, and is part of the multidisciplinary national airway reconstruction service.
Abi also has a busy private practice and works as an external clinical supervisor in voice for two London NHS trusts. In addition, she has recently joined the faculty lecturing on the MSc in Performance Science at The Royal College of Music.
She has a background in acoustic voice analysis, postgraduate training in vocal pedagogy and singing teaching and has extensive experience in treating professional voice users, including touring and West End singers, actors and those in public service, both nationally and internationally.
Abi sits on the British Voice Association Education working party and is faculty member of the British Laryngological Association Voice Clinic course. Abi was clinical advisor on the ENO Breathe programme.
