BVA COUNCIL
Page updated: 22nd July 2010
Council and officers
Sue Anderson, Dane Chalfin, Kim Chandler, Tom Harris (President-Elect), Phil Jones, Sue Jones, Moira Little, Sharat Mohan, Pam Parry, Frith Trezevant.
President (2010/11): John Rubin
Treasurer: Kate Young
Company Secretary: Kristine Carroll-Porczynski
Biographies
Sue Anderson: The musical career of Sue Anderson consists of three distinct but complementary strands, those of academic, performer and teacher. She read music at Oxford, and successfully completed an MA in Psychology for Musicians at Sheffield University in 2003. Winner of the Van Lawrence Prize in 2004, with a presentation on the memorisation strategies used by professional singers, she continues to be drawn to the psychology of music, currently approaching the subject from a neuroscience perspective on the new MSc course at Goldsmiths: Music, Mind and Brain.
As a performer, she gave her Wigmore Hall debut as a solo pianist, in a recital sponsored by the Incorporated Society of Musicians, but has since worked for many years as a singer, performing in the chorus/understudy/small roles programme at Glyndebourne, and giving concerts of contemporary music throughout Europe both as a soloist and as a member of London Sinfonietta Voices.
As a teacher, her regular commitments include weekend courses for those who think that they ‘can't sing', and teaching singing, piano and practical musicianship to pupils of all ages and stages. She edits Singing, the journal of the Association of Teachers of Singing (AOTOS) which appears twice a year, and has also been chair of the BVA Education Working Party since 2005.
Dane Chalfin: is a contemporary commercial vocal coach and Principal Lecturer in voice at Leeds College of Music. He is also Vocal Rehabilitation coach at Wythenshawe Hospital where he assists with the twice-monthly Elite Vocal Performer Clinic and has an individual and joint caseload of professional voice-users with organic/functional voice disorders. His private clientele consists of well-known singers and actors as well as pre/post-operative patients. He is often called in as a consultant in ‘emergency' situations at recording studios and theatres nationally. He is a regular presenter on rehabilitating injured singers with his colleagues Phil Jones (Consultant ENT) and Sue Jones (Head of Speech, Voice Swallowing Services) at national/international voice conferences and also runs many teacher training programmes for other singing teachers and vocal coaches. His current research interests include extreme voice-use and neurology in singing.
Kim Chandler MMus, BMusEd, AMusA, is a highly experienced and qualified, London-based professional session singer and contemporary 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 teaching studio where she teaches professional singers, artists, tertiary & post-graduate 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 conferences (e.g. PEVOCs 6, 7 & 8, BVA Rock & Pop days, etc.). Academically, she is a part-time senior lecturer in contemporary singing at the London College of Music, where she also completed her Masters in Performance (with distinction) in 2001. Kim's pioneering "Funky 'n Fun" vocal training series sets new standards in contemporary vocal pedagogy and is a top seller internationally.
Tom 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.
Philip H Jones: I am interested in audit, microsurgery and service delivery and believe voice is central to humanity and dysphonia care means multidisciplinary. I would be privileged to serve on the BVA Council and help further a still wider multidisciplinary approach to voice. I helped develop UHSM Voice Clinics Service from 1988. I wrote guidelines for SALT endoscopy in UHSM in 1995, was an ENT adviser for the RCSLT endoscopy guidelines and chief author of the ENT-UK guidelines on fibre-optic endoscope decontamination. I contributed to the Laryngeal Intervention Clinic and Laryngeal Dysplasia Consensus Guidelines. I have presented on voice nationally and internationally. I helped host a Voice Clinics Forum day and Manchester Voice Conferences for the BVA. I am external examiner for the London MSc in Voice Pathology. I am currently auditing surgical and voice outcomes of layered resection of early glottic carcinomas, Permacol thyroplasty and transverse cordotomy for bilateral abductor palsy.
Sue M Jones: I have 28 years experience working with Voice Disorders. I am a key player in developing the Voice Service at University Hospital of South Manchester which holds 5 voice clinic sessions per week including one for Elite Vocal Performers. I believe strongly in a multidisciplinary approach and have recently developed the post of “vocal rehabilitation coach” to assist in the treatment of vocally injured professional performers. My personal “obsessions” in voice include research into the evidence-base for therapy, endoscopy in the assessment/therapeutic management of voice disorders, perceptual analysis, training of SLTs and other professionals, managing the injured professioanl singer and voice therapy pre and post phonosurgery. I hold an MSc in Voice Research (Newcastle University) and am an adviser on Voice Disorders to the RCSLT. I have presented at major national and international meetings. I would welcome the opportunity to make a contribution to the BVA Council.
Moira Little BSc (Hons), Cert MRCSLT: Moira is Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) Manager and Clinical Voice Specialist at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, where she has worked in the Voice Clinic there since it started in 1985. She is an Adviser in Voice for the RCSLT and coordinated the Voice section of CQ3. Moira was the SLT representative on the ENT Redesign steering group in Scotland. She is a Voice Care Network tutor and has run workshops for teachers, lecturers, and zoo keepers! She currently serves on the Council of the British Voice Association and is responsible for organising BVA study days in Scotland. She lectures on voice to undergraduate SLT and Medical students. She featured on a BBC Radio 4 programme entitled 'A Voice like Honey', talking about voice therapy. She was one of the 'Newcastle 7' involved in grading voices on three different perceptual scales for one of Paul Carding's research projects and participated in the 'consensus panel' for the GRBAS training CDs. She has given lectures and run workshops for SLTs throughout Scotland and on BVA courses and lectures on the BVA 'Fundamentals of the Singing Voice' course at the City Lit. in London.
Sharat 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.
Pam Parry: Singer and Teacher, Pam currently divides her time between teaching, acting, writing, singing and directing. She is a performance and repertoire coach and is the Specialist Singing Teacher on the Voice Clinic Team at the Royal Sussex Hospital. She is very dedicated to the multi-disciplinary approach to voice. She is a Vocal Diagnostician and Singing Teacher at the Central School of Speech & Drama London. Pam specialises in working as a trouble-shooter and problem solver in speaking and singing rehabilitation of the injured voice, and having successfully overcome voice crash herself, she has particular success in dealing with anxiety and stage fright. She has been a member of the BVA for over 13 years and has served as a director for 3, acting as one of the organizing team for the Emotional Voice meeting held to celebrate World Voice Day in 2009.
John Rubin, MD, FACS, FRCS, is a Consultant Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon at The Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital, a part of The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust. He is immediate past Clinical Director (2003-2009), is Chair of the Consultant Forum and is Lead Clinician of the Voice Disorders Unit. He is an Honorary Consultant ENT Surgeon at the National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, a part of the University College London Hospital Trust. He is also Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Ear Institute, University College London.
Mr. Rubin's particular interests lie in voice disorders and laryngeal surgery. He has written extensively, including several books, numerous articles and chapters, and regularly lectures on voice-related topics. Mr. Rubin has served in multiple capacities on many international editorial and scientific boards and committees. Mr. Rubin is current Treasurer and President elect of the British Voice Association. He is also past President (1999-2000, 2003-2004 terms) of the BVA. He is the current President of the Collegium Medicorum Theatri as well as a founding member of the European Academy of Voice.
Frith Trezevant ARCM (Singing), LTCL (Speech and Drama, Music Education): Frith performed in opera, recital and drama as a young singer and actress in New Zealand, and was a frequent broadcaster with Radio NZ. She came to London to work with David Harper and Janice Chapman, winning awards from the an Fleming Foundation and the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies. When her family were young, Frith was Director of Colourstrings Music Kindergarten, and went on to become Head of Singing at the Bristol Academy of Performing Arts where her teaching focus was young adults. Singing Advisor to the Voice Clinic at St. Michael's Hospital, and currently teaching at The Red Maids School and in private practice in Bristol, Firth also teaches on choral courses run by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, and deputises at the Junior Dept of the Royal College of Music. She is intrigued by voice science and its application to teaching.
Kate 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.
