Area Events for 2025
Huge thanks to our Area Representatives who put together and deliver a wonderful series of Area Days across our five regions. Find out more below.
Singing for All: Inclusion and Diversity for Authentic Performance
Saturday 1 February 2025
9.30am–5pm
With:
KATIE TEAGE – educator, choir conductor and soprano for the London Vocal Project
LEY ADEWOLE – award-winning gospel singer, vocal coach and choir director
Falmouth University Academy of Music and Theatre Arts
Performing Arts Centre
South West Area Day – Singing for All: Inclusion and Diversity for Authentic Performance (Falmouth)
United We Sing: Inclusive practices for deaf, trans and non-binary singers in group singing activities
Sunday 2 February 2025
10.00am–5.30pm
With:
DR MICHAEL BONSHOR – Professor of Voice, Wellbeing and Performance Psychology at Leeds Conservatoire
PAUL WHITTAKER OBE – speaker, musician, performer and BSL leader for Rock Choir
C. Bechstein Centre, Manchester
Q&A with SQA and Teaching Teenagers
Sunday 16 February 2025
10.30am–4pm
With:
MANDY MILLER – deputy principal assessor for higher music at SQA, choir founder, teacher of choral conducting and workshop practitioner with over 40 years’ teaching experience
Edinburgh Society of Musicians
In The Audition Room
Sunday 23 February 2025
1pm–5pm
With:
PAUL WINGFIELD – Head of Vocal and Operatic Studies at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
JONATHAN GUNTHORPE
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Central Area Day – In The Audition Room: Auditioning for Conservatoire Training (Birmingham)
Singing for All: Inclusion and Diversity for Authentic Performance
Sunday 2 March 2025
9.30am–5.00pm
With:
KATIE TEAGE – educator, choir conductor and soprano for the London Vocal Project
KIM SAMUELS – founder and director of Renewal Choir CIC, and director of UWE Bristol Gospel Choir and the Bristol Windrush Reggae Choir
Bristol Beacon Music Centre
South West Area Day – Singing for All: Inclusion and Diversity for Authentic Performance (Bristol)
From Song to Speech and Speech to Song: A collaborative Vocal Journey Elevating the Classical Performer
Sunday 4 May 2025
9.30am–5.00pm
With:
BARBARA HOUSEMAN – has over 45 years’ experience working in theatre
PROFESSOR RAYMOND CONNELL – Professor of Singing at Royal Academy of Music
South East Area Day – From Song to Speech and Speech to Song
AOTOS Area Representatives
You can find out more about your Area Representative here on our Who We Are page, or contact them directly:
- North Area Representative: Julie Thompson [email protected]
- Central Area Representative: Charlotte Mendly [email protected]
- South East Area Representative: Emily Gray [email protected]
- South West Area Representative: Jenna Brown [email protected]
- Scotland Area Representative: Fiona Shelfer [email protected]
We hope you will enjoy the programme of Area Events that has been planned for our 50th Anniversary year in 2025. Please feel free to get in touch with [email protected] if you have any questions or feedback.
