Hi, I’m Christie.  I’m a vocal coach.

With nearly three decades experience as a coach and elite performer, I draw from both my extensive training and my own performing background to help my clients sing better without getting tired.

What Does That Mean?

I really believe you can feel better and sound better at the same time, and yes, sounding like the most beautiful version of ‘you’ is important!  I don’t believe you need to do months of extreme exercises ‘sorting, unpicking, or unpacking’ before a beautiful tone emerges – beauty of tone and vocal health should go hand in hand and should reveal themselves pretty quickly with simple exercises which rebalance and rehabituate inefficient patterns.

How Can I Help You?

• Production support and consultation.

• Prepare for auditions and incorporate casting director feedback into your recalls using vocal technique.

• Shift styles (adapt your natural sound to sing in a different genre).

• Improve vocal facility and learn how to riff.

• Refresh your audition material and find rep for your showreel.

• Reduce vocal fatigue through restorative exercises.

 How Do I Work?

It is important to me that my regular clients feel like they have access to me when they need me.  If you are a regular client, I will work as a member of your team. That means, prioritising you for last-minute audition requests, specialised warm ups, vocal health advice and attending your gigs and delivering feedback. I prefer to work in person, but I do online lessons and warm ups for touring clients.

If you are a new client or just need a check in every now and then, that is also fine, and I always do my best to accommodate new professional clients.

If you are a production company seeking vocal consultation for your production, please get in touch here.

What is My Background and Experience

I have worked with professional actors, singers, and dancers for over three decades. My clients can be seen on the West End, on TV & Film, and in commercially signed record label contracts.

In addition to managing an active private studio, I teach on the BA (hons) courses at Arts Ed and Mountview Theatre School.

I am a member of the voice clinic team at the NHS Disordered Voice Unit in Lewisham where I support a team of world class clinicians in helping professional voice users reclaim their vocal health and careers after injury and illness.  

I teach regularly for various professional West End training programmes, including West End on Demand, Pearson Casting Collective Creative Initiative, Singspace Big Weekender, among others.

What Are My Professional Qualifications

Member of PAVA (Pan American Vocology Association)

Published Research:  VASTA Voice and Speech Review (A Case Study in Coaching Challenges, 2022)

Qualified Estill Master Trainer (2020)

Knight Thompson Speechwork

Recognised Provider, Lessac-Madsen Resonant Voice Therapy

Basic manual massage work with Walt Fritz

M.M. Boston University and member of the prestigious Opera Institute

Who Are My Mentors

I have been privileged to work with some of the greatest teachers in the world.  The ones who have influenced me the most are here:

Sharon Daniels

Tim Richards

Tom Burke

Margarita Evans