UPCOMING WORKSHOPS – full info below
2024
14/15th Sep UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL (ON RECORD) Vocal Workshop in Pathhead, Midlothian – FULLY BOOKED
31st Oct to 3rd Nov MADE-TO-MEASURE VOCAL INTENSIVE in Seahouses, Northumberland – FULLY BOOKED
7 – 10 Nov MADE-TO-MEASURE VOCAL INTENSIVE in Seahouses, Northumberland – FULLY BOOKED
30 Nov / 1 Dec UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL (ON RECORD) Vocal Workshop in Pathhead, Midlothian
2025
20 – 23rd Feb MADE-TO-MEASURE VOCAL INTENSIVE in Seahouses, Northumberland
3 – 6th Apr CROMARTY VOCAL JAZZ WORKSHOP
9 – 16th and 17 to 24th August THE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ SUMMER SCHOOL 2025 near Oswestry, Shropshire
6 – 9th Nov MADE-TO-MEASURE VOCAL INTENSIVE in Seahouses, Northumberland
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TERMS OF PAYMENT for all the Vocal Jazz Workshops listed below
The deposit is non-refundable.
The balance of fee for cancellations within 14 days of the workshop start date will be non-refundable unless a replacement student can be found.
Instalment payments are non-refundable.
In case of the workshop having to be cancelled by us any deposit and balance of fee paid will be reimbursed.
MADE-TO-MEASURE VOCAL INTENSIVES in Seahouses, Northumberland
Thurs 31st Oct (evening) to Sun 3rd Nov FULLY BOOKED
Thurs 7th (evening) to Sun 10th Nov 2024 FULLY BOOKED
Thurs 20th (evening) to Sun 23rd Feb 2025
Thurs 6th (evening) to Sun 9th Nov 2025
With tutors Liane Carroll, Sara Colman and Sophie Bancroft in a wonderful seaside location in Northumberland. 6 students participate in 3 days of intensive study in the beautiful surroundings of the Northumberland coastline by Seahouses and Bamburgh. In your time off there are fantastic beaches to walk, castles to explore and the fresh sea air to breathe. Workshop starts 7pm on Thurs evening and finishes around 6.30pm on Sunday evening.
Workshop Fee £695:includes all tuition, welcome drinks and nibbles on Thursday evening, tea and coffee each day, dinner on Saturday evening and lunches on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. BYOB for jam sessions on Saturday evening. A monthly payment plan is possible if of use.
Each day an individual student’s MADE-TO-MEASURE VOCAL INTENSIVE timetable will include:
• 30 mins technical warm up
• 2 x 60 mins masterclass with 2 students
• group session with 1 tutor
• individual lesson with 1 tutor
• jam session – Thursday and Saturday evening
There are numerous hotels, bed and breakfasts and self-catering accommodation close to the workshop venue as well as plenty of good cafes and restaurants plus a COOP supermarket that is open until 10pm each evening (4.30pm on Sunday). Workshop participants who would like to share an Air BnB can be put in contact with each other if of interest. Closest mainline station is Berwick-upon-Tweed Train Station. We can pick you up / drop you off from Berwick-upon-Tweed Train Station, coordinating with other students arriving by train @ £25 each way or less if other students sharing the lift.
UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL (ON RECORD) Vocal Workshops
Sat 14 / Sun 15th Sep 2024 – FULLY BOOKED
Sat 30th Nov / Sun 1st Dec 2024
Treat yourself to this fun, intimate and intensive workshop with a huge amount of individual focus as well as group work (4 workshop participants max) @ Sophie and Tom’s house in Pathhead, Midlothian – 25 mins from Edinburgh city centre. B+Bs nearby if needed.
Input on technique, repertoire, phrasing, improvisation, working with musicians, intros + endings, confidence, performance skills, rehearsing + performance preparation, microphone technique, music theory + much more PLUS a recording of a 1 or 2 song demo in our home studio!!!
How about recording a contemporary christmas song to send out as a christmas present at our 30th Nov / 1st Dec 2024 UCAP workshop?
£395 per weekend workshop, 10.30am – 4.30pm Saturday and Sunday. Please bring your own lunches.
Email Sophie to book – a non-refundable deposit of £195 will be required to secure booking. Monthly payment plan is possible too.
CROMARTY VOCAL JAZZ WORKSHOP April 3rd – 6th 2025 with tutors Liane Carroll, Sara Colman & Sophie Bancroft
Your time in Cromarty and your workshop fee includes:
Exclusive Tutors concert for workshop participants on Thursday night
Singers night Jam Session on Saturday night
Student concert on Sunday afternoon
2 1/2 days of intensive teaching including group song work, technique, bodywork and 4 masterclasses; one with each tutor (max 4 students in each masterclass) with a good deal of individual focus time.
Accommodation, dinner on Thurs, Fri and Sat, breakfast and lunch on Fri, Sat, Sun and teas/coffees.
All residential rooms are single occupation with shared bathrooms. The workshop attendees will be the only residents at the venue.
Beautiful scenery, great food, good company and much laughter!
Maximum 12 participants.
Workshop Fees : £995pp
A non-refundable deposit of £300 at the time of booking will secure your place
Monthly payment plan possible
Cromarty is a 30 minute bus journey from Inverness airport which receives national and international flights, and Inverness station which is on the main east coast line from London.
THE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ SUMMER SCHOOL 2025
with vocal tutors Liane Carroll and Sophie Bancroft
Week 1: Saturday 9th (evening) – Saturday 16th Aug (depart after breakfast)
Week 2: Sunday 17th (evening) – Sunday 24th Aug (depart after breakfast)
Please visit here for information
NB please see the IJSS website for their terms of payment – this summer school is run by a different organisation to the Vocal Jazz Workshops listed above.
Any questions about any of the workshops, please do contact me
STUDENT TESTIMONIALS FROM THE VOCAL JAZZ WORKSHOPS
Huge thanks to you all for another brilliant weekend. What a team!!! I’ve never been to a health spa, but whatever their claims I can’t believe they come anywhere near the benefits of your workshops. The Heineken effect; you get to the parts that others don’t reach.
Thank you so much, it was a wonderful weekend and I learnt so much – surprisingly emotional too, it felt very cathartic.
I wanted to thank you for such a marvellous course. I got so much out of it and was able to have the confidence to go a little bit further with all the things I find challenging. I love singing so much and interpreting the great songs brings so much emotion as well as bringing you close to some great people. I have always felt hampered by my lack of confidence as a relative newcomer to jazz but I gain something from each course and the skill and manner of the teaching really helped me to be a bit more daring.
Thanks for the kind comments and for all your hard work and very valuable input from all three of you this weekend. I hope it will all help to close the gap between where I am with my singing and where I’d like to be.
Thank you for the weekend, which was inspiring. I have taken many good things away from it, and although it’s too early to say how it will all impact on my singing, or my teaching, one thing I feel absolutely sure of is that it will.
I have to say that for me personally, it was the most terrifying thing I think I have ever done – and I will treasure every second of it in my mind for ever because it has changed me for ever in a way that is extremely growthful and empowering.
Thanks again for a wonderful workshop, it was really inspirational and I cant wait to to start singing again
What great teachers!
I love and look forward to spending time with you all and consider myself hugely privileged to be a participant in your workshops. I learn so much and am keen to have opportunities to put it all into practice.
Thank you both so much for all the help and support you have given me as a singer and as another human being.
You are all such inspiring teachers…
