Evolving Voice – inspiring and empowering teachers 

Where evidence-based research meets student-centred learning.

Creating an environment where teachers feel comfortable to explore their students' potential through play and experimentation.

Building on knowledge foundations and helping young singers to love performing. 

Jenevora Williams
Dr. Jenevora Williams

Hi, I’m Dr. Jenevora Williams, and I’m passionate about supporting voice teachers to find and trust their own brilliance. You already have superpowers as a voice teacher…and I want to help you discover and cultivate them.  I’ve had great ideas and then changed my mind, I’d like you to be able to do the same.

My teaching philosophy is to enable an environment for self-discovery. If I guide you to find out what to do and how to do it, it is then yours to use and develop.

Are you looking for fresh ideas in your teaching? 

Through Evolving Voice you will develop: 

  • Individualised, imaginative and effective vocal exercises
  • Easy explanations and understanding of how voices work
  • Appropriate guidance for every developmental stage

Build on your experience and excitement, and deepen your understanding to better serve your singers.

As voice teachers, most of us were taught to problem solve the details instead of addressing the whole singer in front of us. 

  • Generic exercises have a limited impact - however, if you know how something works, you can change it. 
  • We can best help our students when we get to know the individual, their voice, and what they want.  
  • With student-led teaching there’s nothing to be fixed, only discoveries to be made. 

That’s why I created Evolving Voice.

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Who is this for?

These courses are aimed at voice practitioners who already have a practical, working knowledge of singing but who wish to gain a deeper understanding to further their practice. The content is not genre-specific, it does not follow any method or model and can be applied to any voice use.

These courses are intended for music teachers, musical directors, singing and voice teachers, voice teachers of all experience levels, classroom teachers, conductors, and all types of voice users and educators.

If you would like to enrich your learning with the opportunity to discuss any of the information presented, or to explore any aspect of it in more detail, please book an individual mentoring session with Dr Jenevora Williams.

Premium quality content, flexible engagement

Choose how you want to learn

  • Pre-recorded online videos
  • Bespoke training, designed for your group online or in-person
  • Private mentoring service for singing teachers who would like some individual guidance with their work.
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Online Courses are presented as a series of pre-recorded videos.

  • Watch the videos at your leisure as many times as you wish
  • Each video has the option of subtitles and a downloadable PDF of the slides
  • Single purchase gives you lifetime access

Learn how voices work, how they grow and change, and how our vocal function is woven in with emotional and physical health and wellbeing. 

Know what young singers can achieve at each stage of their development.

Develop your own warm-ups and vocal exercises.

Create a secure environment for exploring and developing potential - for both you and your students.

Testimonials

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    “The best bit about having the course split up into short separate easy-to-digest sections is that it can be accessed when it’s convenient and I can manage to do a bit here and there, or focus on just one specific topic if I am short on time. 
    The videos are just the right length and pacing, and it's useful to be able to download the handouts for future reference/to look at alongside the slides on screen”

    Sue Moore, Choir Leader

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    “I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the course this week. I found it extremely informative, delivered with warmth and great knowledge.
    In these odd times I felt you managed to be inclusive, friendly and involving”

    Sarah Jefferies, Singing Teacher, UK

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    “As always you were totally brilliant, informative, well-researched and relevant combined with your special ability to make complex issues accessible and comprehensible. I so admired your calm and relaxed delivery.”

    Rebecca Moseley-Morgan, Chair of Education British Voice Association

Courses overview

(click film group names to see film titles)

film group Foundations and Fundamentals for the Singing Teacher Choral Director's Guide to Singers Teaching Young Voices Total Access Package
Introduction to functional anatomy
6 FILMS:
  1. Balance - What impact will the alignment of the body have on our voice?
  2. Breath - How can we achieve a steady flow of air with the minimum of effort?
  3. The Larynx 1 – how do we make sound? Pitch and loudness changes
  4. The Larynx 2 – register changes, vibrato and basic laryngeal voice qualities
  5. The Vocal Tract 1 – the jaw and tongue, vowels and consonants
  6. The Vocal Tract 2 – the pharynx and soft palate, acoustic voice qualities
The learning and feeling brain x
8 FILMS:
  1. How we learn - Memory
  2. How we learn - Programming Skills
  3. How we learn - Patterns and Templates
  4. Senses and feelings
  5. Emotions and Learning
  6. Empathy and Learning
  7. Performance anxiety - why it happens
  8. Performance anxiety - what we can do to help
Introduction to Vocal Health
7 FILMS:
  1. Why do we develop vocal health issues?
  2. Inflammation and pacing voice use
  3. Diet and gastro-oesophageal reflux
  4. Common voice problems including the common cold
  5. The effect of hormones on vocal health
  6. The effect of ageing on vocal health
  7. Side-effects of medications
Essential know-how for teachers
6 FILMS:
  1. Structuring lessons and practice
  2. Warm-ups 1 - what are we trying to achieve and why?
  3. Warm-ups 2 - what to do, and in which order?
  4. Students, Parents and the Teacher (Insurance, documentation and safeguarding issues)
  5. Inclusive Teaching 1 – considerations for the inclusive studio
  6. Inclusive Teaching 2 – Specific individual needs
Life Cycle of the Voice x x
7 FILMS:
  1. Introduction – Where it starts
  2. Children - Pre-school Singing, 4 to 7 Years and 7 to 11 years
  3. Adolescent singers – general development and teenage girls
  4. Adolescent boys: Hearing and Assessing voice change
  5. Technique for Young Singers
  6. Group singing for children, working with young adults
  7. Adult singers, female hormone changes, wellbeing and the ageing voice
Teaching Young Voices: Children x x
5 FILMS:
  1. Foundations: why would we teach singing to children?
  2. Why are children’s voices different? What can we hear as they develop?
  3. Infant and young child: early musical development age 0-7
  4. Age 7-11 Skills and technique
  5. Emotions and role play, gender and culture expectations
Teaching Young Voices: Adolescent Changes x x
6 FILMS:
  1. Hormones – what is happening? A note about inclusivity
  2. The Adolescent Brain: Identity and Development
  3. Girls’ voices, changes and expectations
  4. Boys’ voices, listening to the speaking voice and identifying stages
  5. Boys’ voices, when the wrong advice causes problems
  6. Teaching individuals in groups, running choirs and allocating parts
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