The British Voice Association

 

BVA Council

Updated: 24th August 2009 

Council members

Sue Anderson, Stuart Barr, Veronica Veysey Campbell, Dane Chalfin, Kim Chandler, Ruth Epstein, Tom Harris, Moira Little,
Sharat Mohan, Pamela Parry, John Rubin and Kate Young.

President (2009/10): Stuart Barr

Treasurer: John Rubin

President Elect: John Rubin

Company Secretary: Kristine Carroll-Porczynski

 

Biographies of recently appointed Council members...

Tom HarrisTom Harris MA FRCS: Consultant ENT Surgeon at University Hospital Lewisham and Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup. Tom opened one of the first Multidisciplinary Voice Clinics in Britain at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford in 1982. He now runs the Sidcup Voice Clinic with Sara Harris, (Speech Therapist) Jacob Lieberman (Osteopath and Psychotherapist) and Dinah Harris (Voice Coach). He was the Founding Chairman of The Voice Research Society, the predecessor of The British Voice Association.  He is the principal editor and contributor to The Voice Clinic Handbook and was recently made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.

 

Kim ChandlerKim Chandler is a highly experienced and qualified, London-based professional singer and pop vocal coach who has over two decades of high-end performing experience in both live performance and studio singing. Around her performing schedule, she maintains a busy private studio where she teaches a select clientele comprising professional singers, artists, tertiary students with contemporary singing as their first study and other vocal coaches.

Kim has been a featured vocal coach on many TV shows (for the BBC, ITV and MTV) and regularly presents at international voice conference (e.g. PEVOC6, PEVOC7, BVA Rock & Pop days etc.). She is a part-time degree lecturer in contemporary singing at the London College of Music where she also completed her Masters in Performance (with distinction) in 2001. She is an active member of the BVA, and is an endorsed vocal coach with the American voice technology company TC-Helicon.

 

Sharat MohanSharat Mohan: ENT Surgeon and Laryngologist, Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Derby. ENT training in India and UK. Phonosurgery training Netherlands. Set up Voice Clinic Derby 1998. Courses conducted: Flexible, Rigid Endoscopy, Stroboscopy, FEES/ST and manual therapy courses since 2005 (accredited by RCSLT). Annual workshops on Voice Surgery in India since 2001. Overseas advisor to the Association of Phonosurgeons of India. BVA Voice Clinic forum Derby with Kate Young, SLT, Nov. 2006. Presentations: BACO, Birmingham 2003; Prize-winning presentation in North of England ENT Meeting (Thyroplasty results 2004); BVA, Voice Clinic forum Derby 2006, London 2008; PEVOC, Groningen 2007 (Thyroplasty techniques); World Voice Conference, Istanbul 2007. Instructional Courses Conducted: Laryngeal sensory testing/transnasal oesophagoscopy Australian ENT Conference 2007, Adelaide; Laryngeal sensory testing – European Dysphagia meeting, Brussels 2008. Currently setting up One-stop Dysphagia Clinic, Derby with Kate Young. Interests: Multidisciplinary work with SLT; Professional Voice

 

Kate YoungKate Young: Clinical Lead Speech & Language Therapist ENT Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Derby. B.App Sci (Speech Pathology) La Trobe University Melbourne, Australia. Conducts Voice Clinic Derby with S. Mohan (1999). Set up SLT led Voice Clinic 2006. Courses conducted: Flexible, Rigid Endoscopy, Stroboscopy; FEES/ST and manual therapy courses since 2005 (accredited by RCSLT); Annual workshops - Voice Therapy & Surgery in India since 2001. Overseas SLT advisor to the Association of Phonosurgeons of India. BVA Voice Clinic forum Derby with Sharat Mohan, Nov. 2006. Presentations: BACO, Birmingham 2003; BVA, Voice Clinic forum Derby 2006, London 2008; PEVOC, Groningen 2007 (Thyroplasty techniques); World Voice Conference, Istanbul 2007. Instructional Courses Conducted: LST/TNO Australian ENT Conference 2007, Adelaide; Laryngeal sensory testing – European Dysphagia meeting, Brussels 2008; Currently setting up One-stop Dysphagia Clinic, Derby with Sharat Mohan. Interests: Singing; Therapy for Laryngeal Framework surgery.

 

Stuart BarrStuart Barr, is a musical director and vocal coach in theatre and TV. He was Adjudicating Musical Director and Vocal Coach for the BBC’s Voice of Musical Theatre, and BBC Talent’s Be A Musical Theatre Performer, and coaches on several current TV programmes.

He studied for 8 years at the Purcell School, and was a choral scholar at Cambridge where he took a BA in Music and an MPhil researching into Musical Theatre. He then studied conducting and musical theatre singing at the RCM under Mary Hammond. As conductor, he’s worked in several countries and on many West End shows, just finishing a season of Sweeney Todd for Värmlands Opera, Sweden. Stuart is Vocal Coach at the Actors’ Centre, and also runs a busy private teaching studio.  His special interest lies in marrying the often competing demands of good technique and acting performance across a broad range of genres.

 

Dane ChalfinDane Chalfin specialises in non-classical vocal pedagogy and its application to the rehabilitation of voice-users, particularly those in the world of popular music and theatre, who have experiences vocal trauma. Dane Chalfin & Associates’ private teaching practice is based in Manchester and its clients include recording artists, stage, television and radio actors, worship ministries, comedians, singing teachers and vocal coaches, business people, presenters and many more professional voice-users.

He has consulted and/or written voice programs for numerous education establishments including Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, University of Salford and Leeds College of Music where he is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Vocal Technique. Dane has an extensive background as a performer in both stage and popular music.  He has trained with some of the world’s most celebrated voice practitioners in both pedagogy and voice science and research.  His book The 21st Century Singer is currently in development.

 

Ruth EpsteinDr Ruth Epstein Ph.D, is Head of Speech & Language Therapy Services and Consultant Speech and Language Therapist (ENT) at the Royal National Throat, Nose & Ear Hospital, London. She is also the Director of the M.Sc. programme in Voice Pathology at the Ear Institute, University College London.  Dr. Epstein is Past President of the BVA (2004-2005).  She has published extensively on various aspects of voice and voice therapy; her special interests are professional voice users and neurolaryngology.

 

Pamela ParryPamela Jane Parry G.MUS, A.R.C.M. Singer and Teacher, Pam Parry currently divides her time between performing solo and with her own cabaret band ‘Naughty Chair’, organizing and compering a monthly show at the Marlborough Theatre in Brighton and teaching at the Central School of Speech & Drama, GSA Conservatoire and her very busy private studio in Brighton.  She is a member of the Voice Clinic Team at the Royal Sussex Hospital working with Meredydd Harries and is very dedicated to the multi-disciplinary approach to voice.

She is also studying for a psychotherapy diploma using the Human Givens approach with Mindfields College, the only specialist psychology college in the UK.  She has a particular interest in anxiety and stage fright and would like to do more work in this area.  Pam has been a member of the BVA for over 10 years. Read Pamela Parry's account of her personal journey through ‘voice’ (Communicating Voice, Issue 8.1)

 

Veronica Veysey CampbellVeronica Veysey Campbell teaches singing at the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music and to the choristers of St. Paul’s Cathedral as well as running a busy private practice in London.  She also teaches singing for the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. Her pupils take solo roles in leading venues, which this year include Glyndebourne and the South Bank Centre.

She studied at Trinity College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama winning many singing prizes and was a finalist on the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship Competition.  She was also awarded the prestigious Worshipful Company of Musicians’ Medal.  She has given many oratorio, concert and recital performances in Britain and Europe and has made television appearances. Teaching is now her main focus and as well as enjoying the challenges of working with both experienced and less experienced singers she has an interest in vocal rehabilitation. 

 


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