Voicelab
Southbank Centre needs you
Under the direction of Mary King, internationally acclaimed vocal artist and star of Channel 4’s Musicality and Operatunity, Voicelab provides many training and performance opportunities throughout the year for all kinds of people, from enthusiastic amateur to aspiring professional. Participants learn how to sing better and work across a wide range of vocal styles from classical music to beatboxing, from musical theatre to world music. Some choirs are for everyone – others are auditioned.
If you have a passion for different kinds of music and a real desire to sing, email voicelab@southbankcentre.co.uk for further information, and include your full name, contact telephone number and mailing address. We will contact you with details of forthcoming projects.
Mary King introduces Voicelab
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xW4gvXy1754
“If people can produce a sound, they can sing! Voicelab will be about unlocking people’s potential.”
Jude Kelly, Artistic Director of Southbank Centre.
Voicelab is a Southbank Centre Initiative support by
Things We’ve Done
Do you aspire to be a professional singer and performer?
Voicelab Pulse 2007/08
Voicelab PULSE is a course running over a year, in three terms, aimed at singers who want to pursue a professional career. Students come from a wide range of backgrounds, and vocal interests - folk, jazz, classical, musical theatre - and over the year develop as individuals and as an ensemble, with many opportunities for performance around Southbank Centre. We are looking for a group of 15 students from a range of backgrounds to build an ensemble of strong, individual and open performers.
For more information and application details, download a syllabus and an application form, or call 020 7921 0842.
Application deadline: 18 August 2008
Auditions: 24-30 August 2008
Voicelab choirs have featured in:
• A major new music film about war in our time: Dominic Muldowney’s War Oratorio for Channel 4,
• Paco Pena’s Requiem for the Earth which was performed with Paco’s Flamenco troupe in Royal Festival Hall
• Orlando Gough’s The Singing River as part of Royal Festival Hall reopening celebrations
• The week-long Southbank Centre choral festival: Chorus
• Excite, a major new work by Richard Bissell and Eugene Skeef with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski
• Indie band Elbow’s show as part of Massive Attack’s Meltdown in June 2008. Read an article about this project featured in the Times on 13 June 2008
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article4122094.ece
• Workshops on musical theatre, beatboxing, gospel, jazz, pop and world music
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