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Gillyanne Kayes
Director
Email:
gillyanne@vocalprocess.co.uk
Gillyanne
is a freelance writer, teacher and voice expert. She has
been training voices for the last 21 years and has numerous clients
working in professional theatre and film. Her first book, Singing
and The Actor, is widely recommended as a reference text for
teachers of singing working in Musical Theatre and non-classical
styles. Demand for presentations on the book has taken her
throughout the UK, Europe and to the USA. Her second book,
Successful Singing Auditions, was co-written with husband Jeremy
Fisher and published in 2002.
In 1996 Gillyanne became one of the first Estill Vanguard Licensees,
pioneering the work in the UK and Europe for the next five years.
She founded Vocal Process with Jeremy Fisher to meet the changing
needs of vocal performers and teachers.
Today Gillyanne gives
consultations to teachers and performers from all over the world,
troubleshooting and mentoring singers in any genre. A guest tutor
for CSSD, she teaches a pedagogy unit for MA Voice Studies based on
Singing and the Actor Training. She is currently advisor for the
new Musical Theatre Post-Graduate course at the Royal Scottish
Academy of Music and Drama, and is creator and director of the
Integrated Voice™ programme for Vocal Process.
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Jeremy Fisher
Director
Email:
jeremy@vocalprocess.co.uk
Jeremy is creator of the UK's first downloadable video endoscopy
ebooks, and recently created a Voicebox Video for the Science
Museum's Dana Centre in London.
As a classical musician, Jeremy has worked as repetiteur on eleven
productions for Scottish Opera and Opera North, three for the D’Oyly
Carte and three for Music Theatre London. He was guest solo artiste
for the Yamaha Corporation for five years and Musical Director for the Scarborough Spa Orchestra. Jeremy has also
worked extensively in the West End, on everything from a Chekov play
to a rap opera via Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera. As an MD
he has toured the UK and Europe with shows including Calamity Jane
and A Chorus Line.
In the early 1990s Jeremy became interested in learning more about
the mechanics of the voice. He gained a license to teach the Estill
model and ran the UK's EVTS testing centre. He taught singing at
the Actors Centre in London for five years and has coached teachers
and performers in the use of computer voice analysis. As a vocal
coach he now works with opera singers, actors, singing teachers and
songwriters on repertoire, style and performance integration. His
first book, Successful Singing Auditions, was co-written with
Gillyanne Kayes and published in 2002.
Jeremy writes for The Music Teacher, Classroom Music
and Early Music Today magazines, and has published over 300 articles
on opera. He is currently a guest lecturer at GSMD and RSAMD, and is
pianist with Hatstand Opera.
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Articles on this
site by
Gillyanne:
Chart for Applying Vocal Figures and Vocal Sets 15 February 2004
Belting, Range and Register: A Practical Introduction for Singers 28
December 2003
Belting Explained: Range and Repertoire 28 December 2003
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Articles on this
site by Jeremy:
Download Spectrograph
Software for Computer Voice Analysis 23 April 2004
Build Your Own Tilting
Larynx 17 February 2004
Introduction to
Reading a Spectrogram 7 July 2003
Happy Birthday in four
vocal sets
Spectographic analysis
of female falsetto
Speech, Nasal Speech
and Nasal Twang
Comparison of Speech,
Breathy Speech and Falsetto
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