Notice Board
4th October 2008
The Voice of the Young Performer
Sunday 30th November 2008,
(9.30 am – 4.30 pm)
The Royal Scottish Academy of
Music and Drama, Glasgow
Special considerations when working with young performers (classical and pop, amateur and professional), from a medical, teaching, therapy and psychological perspective.
Click here for more details and application form
Text and Tunes for Singers and Actors
Saturday October 11th 2008
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London
10 am - 5.30 pm (Registration from 9.30am)
A one-day workshop for actors who need to sing and singers who need to speak - PROGRAMME NOW AVAILABLE
Click here for more details and application form
The 5th Voice Clinic Forum
Friday 16th January, 2009
Haywood Lecture Theatre,
Postgraduate Centre,
City Hospital,
Dudley Road,
Birmingham B18 7QH
The topics to be discussed:
- Medico Legal Issues Affecting Voice Clinics
- NICE Guidelines and Vocal Fold Medialisation
- Multi-centre Research in Voice Clinics? An NIHR Project
Click here to download an application form (115kb PDF document)
Tools of the Trade: A multidisciplinary look at treatment techniques and tools
A BVA Study Day will take place on Sunday, 5th July 2009.
The day will include The Gunnar Rugheimer Lecture given by Dr Evelyn Abberton. Her title will be "Don't look at me with that tone of voice!" The Annual General Meeting of the British Voice Association will also be included in the day. Further details will be provided as they become available.
World Voice Day 2009
To celebrate World Voice Day 2009 the British Voice Association plans to collaborate with The British Association for Performing Arts Medicine to produce a multidisciplinary study day centred around the role of emotion in the performing arts. The day will take place in London and is planned for sometime in mid- April 2009 to coincide with World Voice Day (16th April). The programme and venue are still in the planning stages but watch this space for more details as they become available.
Van Lawrence Prize 2008
The British Voice Association is pleased to announce that the Van Lawrence Prize 2008 was awarded to Jude Brereton and David Howard, from the Department of Electronics, University of York for their paper “The Effect of Different Acoustic Environments on Singing Voice Performance”.
Click here to find out more and to read an abstract
Ask the BVA...
This is a new idea inspired by the many enquiries we receive at the BVA office. Anyone with a voice related query or who would simply like to be in touch with others having similar problems is welcome to contact the BVA.
Thank you to everyone who participated in Choice for Voice 2008 - speakers, presenters, delegates and all those who supported us
Endoscopy
e-book
Vocal Process has produced six downloadable endoscopy video e-books called Voicebox Videos. They are making donations amounting to 10% of the sales of the videos to registered charities that are concerned with voice, music, health or teaching. We are delighted that the BVA is one of the charities chosen to receive such donations.
The video e-books show endoscopic footage filmed by Julian McGlashan, Tom Harris and Moshe Harrell, of a healthy larynx performing different fundamental vocal tasks in speaking and singing. This is a useful teaching resource produced by Jeremy Fisher. Jeremy and Gillyanne Kayes are the subjects and Jeremy narrates. There is more information on www.voiceboxvideos.com or on the main Vocal Process website at www.vocalprocess.co.uk