Launch of the BVA Research Group

With the launch of the newly formed BVA Research Group, the BVA is creating three exciting opportunities for member researchers from any field of voice to showcase their work and profile. We especially welcome new graduates and early-career researchers. The opportunities on offer: (1) a profile in the magazine section of the BVA website on…

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World Voice Day 2025 – Empower Your Voice!

April 16th is World Voice Day. One day to celebrate the voice, and to raise public awareness of how it is central human communication, identity, and culture. Taking the theme for 2025: ‘Empower Your Voice’,  the BVA has produced a leaflet on finding your voice communities – how to use your voice in new and…

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Expert Vocal Mimicry: How Wallace got a new voice

If you sat down to view the latest Wallace & Gromit offering this Xmas, you would have heard the debut of voice artist, Ben Whitehead, as Wallace. A role established previously and most distinctively by Peter Sallis. In her article for The Conversation BVA member, Jenny Chantelle Tullett gives the background to this feat of…

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The Voice of Shirley Bassey (BVA Patron)

The great Shirley Bassey (BVA Patron) is the subject of Professor Dominic McHugh‘s recorded Gresham lecture. Here, Professor McHugh takes us through Bassey’s early years, getting started as a singer, and the creative reinvention needed to stay at the top of her profession for seven decades. Most informatively (from a vocal care and performance perspective),…

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