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Voice Clinics Forum 2025
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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…
Read MoreOpinion: A Cautionary Tale for Vocal Pedagogy?
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Voice in the News: Vocal coaches and the tricks they teach politicians
“What makes a politician an effective public speaker?” Not only did Keir Starmer, the prime minister, face a tough week on mid-Atlantic relations and the economy, he was also (in some quarters) taken to task for working with a voice coach. We link to an article in The Guardian (8 February) written by Esther Addley…
Read MoreExpert 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…
Read MoreVoice in the News: Life Changing (BBC: Sian Edwards)
In her series Life Changing (BBC r4) Sian Edwards speaks with Tania Bage, post laryngectomy, about the permanent loss of her voice and how she is learning to communicate all over again. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0025c09
Read MoreTalk Voice 2: Vocal Combat Technique
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Opinion: Gate-keeping or bridge-building?
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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),…
Read MoreThe MusoStudy Handbook
Whether you’re giving a one-off lecture or designing a full-blown study course, the MusoStudy Handbook by BVA member (educator, singer and trumpeter), Dr Sue Richardson, is where you need to turn for inspiration, The handbook provides a rich source of practical ideas for teaching and learning with a pedagogical rationale and solid educational theory behind…
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