Invigorate your choir to make the best choral sound possible
Inject some pizazz and excitement into your singers using up-to-date vocal strategies, warm-ups that kick start your sessions and teach members to make the best choral sound that they possible can.
Invigorate your choir to make the best choral sound possible
Inject some pizazz and excitement into your singers using up-to-date vocal strategies, warm-ups that kick start your sessions and teach members to make the best choral sound that they possible can.
Conducting Strategies
Vocal education for singers
Move between genres
Vocal health
Unite your choir in a fun and engaging way, whether in-person or online, with sessions that leave singers feeling full of joy and motivation
Whether you’re a conductor of a professional, amateur or school choir, trying to keep your choir engaged, motivated and singing in tune can be challenging especially when you need to take them online.
Unite your choir in a fun and engaging way, whether in-person or online, with sessions that leave singers feeling full of joy and motivation
Whether you’re a conductor of a professional, amateur or school choir, trying to keep your choir engaged, motivated and singing in tune can be challenging especially when you need to take them online.
Learn new conducting strategies
Get some fresh ideas on how to get the best sound from your singers, improving their blend and variety of timbre without compromising their vocal techniques.
Improve choir tone, clarity and projection
When the choir just can’t seem to get the words over, and the sound doesn’t carry, you need some fresh thoughts about resonance and articulation that will have your choir communicating effectively and excitingly.
Invigorate your choir
Sometimes we all need a little something to pep up our rehearsals. A fresh voice and new approaches and exercises can really drive home the messages you are already giving members about alignment, expressive singing, energy and passionate performance.
Attract new members
Bringing in consultants and colleagues to advise and add new ideas to your rehearsals makes new choir members want to join. They know they are going to learn and they are not going to get bored!
Get your performance ready
Those stressful final rehearsals when the choir just seem to think they’ve got it but really need to up their game? Book in a ‘late rehearsal’ workshop a week or so before your performance to put your members into a real performance mode so that you feel ready for your concert.
Vocal health sessions
A morning workshop unpacking the warm-up and cool-down, and explaining exactly why we do each exercise gets your choir thinking about their singing and their voices, and they can how protect them with evidence-based vocal health strategies.
“I provide conductors and choirs with fun, invigorating workshops, fresh ideas and vocal strategies to help singers sing better and feel energised and motivated.”
“I provide conductors and choirs with fun, invigorating workshops, fresh ideas and vocal strategies to help singers sing better and feel energised and motivated.”
Run ‘feel-good’ sessions
With years of experience working as a performer singing in both world famous choirs and Hollywood film soundtracks, I understand the challenges both conductors and singers face. Having delivered choir workshops programmes to the National Youth Choirs, Rodolfus Foundation and others, I have a wealth of experience and knowledge to help motivate your choir. By implementing evidence-based strategies you will be able to deliver ‘feel-good’ sessions infused with joy and energy that will keep your choristers engaged and enthused for the whole rehearsal and improve their sound and stamina.
Run ‘feel-good’ sessions
With years of experience working as a performer singing in both world famous choirs and Hollywood film soundtracks, I understand the challenges both conductors and singers face.
Having delivered choir workshops programmes to the National Youth Choirs, Rodolfus Foundation and others, I have a wealth of experience and knowledge to help motivate your choir.
By implementing evidence-based strategies you will be able to deliver ‘feel-good’ sessions infused with joy and energy that will keep your choristers engaged and enthused for the whole rehearsal and improve their sound and stamina.
Workshops for choirs
Whether you’re looking for a choir pep-up, new warm-ups or cool-downs, or need a full weekend workshop to invigorate your choir, my workshops for choirs and ensembles, in-person or online, will help you get the best sound possible.
Workshops for choirs
Whether you’re looking for a choir pep-up, new warm-ups or cool-downs, or need a full weekend workshop to invigorate your choir, my workshops for choirs and ensembles, in-person or online, will help you get the best sound possible.
Working together to find the best possible sound for your choir and inspiring them to perform with panache
As a conductor you need to be able to lead your choir with passion and fresh strategies which will bring out the very best from each and every member.
Working together to find the best possible sound for your choir and inspiring them to perform with panache
As a conductor you need to be able to lead your choir with passion and fresh strategies which will bring out the very best from each and every member.
Working with the Conductor
Online or in-person course
Learn how to get the most from your singers!
An energising warm-up, with plenty of information about the exercises and the reasons for doing them, followed by a workshop on their repertoire. You will conduct your choir in the repertoire that you have prepared, and we will look at tricky passages, whether it be fast passages, improving vowels, tricky tuning, or performance and communication techniques to reinforce the messages you want to bring to your choir. We will end with a cool-down, a short vocal health talk and a Q and A.
Motivational Warm-ups
Online or in-person. Half-hour or full-hour sessions
Kick start your rehearsal!
Online or in-person warm-up and tips session. Half-hour warm-up or full-hour warm-up/cool-down sessions, with lots of effective exercises dealing with all the different aspects of how to make the best sound, covering breathing, alignment, agility, soft and loud singing and much, much more; a chance for your singers to really think about which warm-ups are effective for which requirement, and some advice on how they should prepare for rehearsals before the baton even goes down!
Choir Workshops
Online or in-person. Half-day Workshops
Tackle choir vocal challenges
Half or full-day workshops with your choir. A visit from the team! We’ll bring two or more of us to work on one or two pieces (chosen in collaboration with you) over the course of a day or half-day, learning from scratch and breaking down the learning process. The day will include warm-up and cool-down strategies, sectional breakout sessions and a performance at the end of the day.
“Nicki’s sessions leave singers of all ages feeling enriched and motivated.”
“Having seen Nicki working with a range of choirs, from small consorts to large choral societies, I have always been struck by her extraordinary ability to share expert technical advice in a fun and engaging way. Whether live or online, her sessions leave singers of all ages feeling enriched and motivated.”
Tim Johnson – Precentor & Director of Music, Eton College
“Nicki is highly likeable and an outstandingly good communicator.”
“It goes without saying that Nicki has a comprehensive and impressive knowledge of the voice, but add to that a really good understanding of language. She is a highly likeable person and this communicates itself immediately to audiences and choirs.”
Ralph Allwood – Artistic Director Rodolfus Foundation