UPCOMING WORKSHOPS – full info below
2025
29th Mar VOCAL JAZZ ZOOM MASTERCLASSES – FULLY BOOKED
30th Mar VOCAL JAZZ ZOOM MASTERCLASS – FULLY BOOKED
3 – 6th Apr MADE-TO-MEASURE VOCAL INTENSIVE in Seahouses, Northumberland – FULLY BOOKED
14th Apr VOCAL JAZZ ZOOM MASTERCLASS – FULLY BOOKED
17th Apr VOCAL JAZZ ZOOM MASTERCLASS
20th Apr VOCAL JAZZ ZOOM MASTERCLASS
3rd/4th May UP CLOSE & PERSONAL (ON RECORD) in Pathhead, Midlothian – FULLY BOOKED
7th/8th June UP CLOSE & PERSONAL (ON RECORD) in Pathhead, Midlothian
9 – 16th and 17 to 24th August THE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ SUMMER SCHOOL 2025 near Oswestry, Shropshire
30 Oct – 2 Nov MADE-TO-MEASURE VOCAL INTENSIVE in Seahouses, Northumberland – 1 SPACE AVAILABLE
6 – 9th Nov MADE-TO-MEASURE VOCAL INTENSIVE in Seahouses, Northumberland – FULLY BOOKED
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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.
VOCAL JAZZ ZOOM MASTERCLASSES
Come and join me online to explore some of the amazing jazz standards. Ahead of each Vocal Jazz Zoom Masterclass I will send you a lead sheet for the featured song plus a recording of me singing the written melody so you can learn the song aurally and/or visually before the masterclass. We will then explore the techniques involved in singing the song, the harmony for any exploration of improvisation you might want to do and analyse what the songwriter has given us singers to use in our interpretation of the song. Each of you will have opportunities to share your individual singing during the masterclass.
SAT 29th MARCH:
12.15 – 1.15pm NO MORE BLUES by Antonio Carlos Jobim – FULLY BOOKED
1.30 – 2.30pm LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME by Walter Donaldson – FULLY BOOKED
SUN 30th MARCH:
12.15 – 1.15pm I’M OLD FASHIONED by Jerome Kern – FULLY BOOKED
MON 14th APRIL:
6.45 – 7.45pm WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MADE by Maria Grever – FULLY BOOKED
THURS 17th APRIL:
6.45 – 7.45 pm TENDERLY by Walter Gross and Jack Lawrence – Please book the relevant time slot/s for your chosen masterclass/es here
SUN 20th APRIL:
4 – 5pm THE DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES by Henry Mancini and Jonny Mercer – Please book the relevant time slot/s for your chosen masterclass/es here
5.15 – 6.15pm MOONLIGHT IN VERMONT by Karl Suessdorf and John M. Blackburn – Please book the relevant time slot/s for your chosen masterclass/es here
£25 per masterclass with a maximum of 3 participants
Please book the relevant time slot/s for your chosen masterclass/es here – you will automatically be sent a zoom link for your chosen masterclass/es and I will send you the lead sheet, recording of the written melody and payment details in the run up to the masterclass.
If your chosen date and time of masterclass is not available I am afraid it means that it is now fully booked but please do let me know and I will book the same song masterclass in for another date.
Don’t hesitate to ask if you have any questions.
MADE-TO-MEASURE VOCAL INTENSIVES in Seahouses, Northumberland
Thurs 3rd Apr (evening) – Sun 6th Apr 2025 FULL
Thurs 30th Oct (evening) to Sun 2nd Nov 2025 1 space available
Thurs 6th (evening) to Sun 9th Nov 2025 FULL
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 3rd May / Sun 4th May 2025 – FULLY BOOKED
Sat 7th June / Sun 8th June 2025 – spaces available
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.
£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.
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…
