Sing the Story - Lift the Lyric
An Acting through Song course which delves into the detail of both vocal technique and text to elevate your performance. Enhance your storytelling through song to create a more emotionally impactful performance, hand in hand with practically developing your understanding of singing technique and other vocal skills.
There will be the opportunity to work with a rich and wide range of musical theatre material in group singing with the opportunity for solo work.
During the week you will:
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Cultivate vocal technique and best practice in singing preparation and performance
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Combine singing with acting to bring greater depth and authenticity to performance
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Learn how to lift the lyrics of songs to enhance realism in storytelling
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Explore characterisation and style
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Find ways to create the atmosphere and mood through singing performances
This course is for singers who are looking for an opportunity to develop their vocal technique through a practical approach.
Pamela studied at The Royal College of Music and until recently combined her duties at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School with a busy singing life.
She has a wide repertoire from early to contemporary music, singing opera, light opera, oratorio, recitals and concert work, performing in concert halls, theatres and cathedrals throughout the UK and also in France, Germany, Holland, Zimbabwe and Mali. Pamela sings as a soloist with UK orchestras in works such as Elgar’s Sea Pictures. Pamela is equally at home on the operatic stage, playing roles ranging from Mrs Herring in Britten’s Albert Herring to Suzuki in Puccini’s Madame Butterfly. In recent years she has become more involved in chamber opera, playing roles such as Madame Popova in Walton’s setting of Chekhov’s The Bear, and most recently creating the role of Marie Coulette (a formidable pipe-smoking granny) in the World premiere of A Foreign Field, an opera by Eric Wetherell, for which she achieved much critical acclaim. Pamela has worked as a soloist on Radio 3 and 4 and on TV.
She adjudicates for festivals and runs vocal workshops and singing courses for theatre companies and singing groups in Switzerland, Cyprus, Glasgow, Norwich, Warwick, Whitby, Wiltshire, Cornwall and Bristol. Pamela led a Development Day for AOTOS (Association of Teachers of Singing) South West on “The Singer Speaks, the Actor Sings” with Lynette Erving, former Head of Voice at BOVTS. Pamela has conducted many musical theatre shows, most notably London Road for BOVTS at Bristol Old Vic, which was nominated for “Best Theatre Production in the South West”, and the world premiere of Mrs Beeton Says, a new musical by Eamonn O’Dwyer & Helen Watts, commissioned by BOVTS and now published by Samuel French. Pam was recently musical director for Catastrophe Bay, another new musical by Jim Barnes and Kit Buchan, staged at BOV.
In the course of her work at BOVTS she has had much success training actors in singing, having two winners, three runners-up and twelve finalists in eight years in the prestigious Stephen Sondheim Student Performer of the Year competition, as well as training four members of the Royal Family in The Crown! As well as coaching actors and singers in West End shows and throughout the UK, Pam now works with film and TV companies as music consultant and is voice and performance coach for public speaking organisations.