Voice Teachers
Voice Teachers 2010
Chrys Blanchard
Chrys is a freelance composer, choir leader and percussionist, whose professional work calls upon the great diversity of skills she has acquired after more than 25 years in the performing arts. She creates and directs projects, training and workshops for theatre, education, the health service and community groups. Chrys has a particular interest in sound healing, and the effects of sound and music in our lives. She runs 2 community choirs in Abergavenny, and various monthly drop-in groups, as well as guesting at other events.
On camp Chrys will be leading Find Your Voice sessions. In these she will create a safe space for people to explore the very root of how we make sound with our voices, finding our optimum resonance and building confidence as we build our voices.
Bruce Knight
Bruce Knight has been running singing workshops since 2000. He is known for his upbeat and energetic style, and his love of songs with simple dances or movement. Bruce runs the 100-strong Songlines community choir in Warwick and Leamington Spa, and is a regular teacher at the Unicorn Natural Voice Camp.
On camp this year Bruce will teach a couple of his favourite songs with the intention of sharing them at the informal “Sacred Arts Cabaret” on the last afternoon.
Su Lewis
I have been singing all my life. I am a member of the Natural Voice Practitioners Network and have been a natural voice teacher for 5 years. I am a regular voice teacher for Island Voices Community Choir on Portland in Dorset. I sing with two choirs and a women’s singing group, and write and arrange songs for small groups and choirs.
At the camp I will be leading some morning wake-up singing sessions. These relaxed and fun sessions are designed to wake the voice and body up gently, ready for the busy day ahead, and we will sing simple rounds and part songs.
Sarah Pennington
I have been singing since 1996 and teaching natural voice since 2001, with both small and large groups. I am a member of the Natural Voice Practitioners Network and co-founded Big Sing Dorset with Gilo.
My intention is always to create a safe space in which everyone can enjoy their voice and experience the magic of harmony singing and the sense of community that it can bring.
At the camp I will be leading some of the morning sessions, working with the Harmonic Temple, a body of harmonised chants written by Nickomo using mantras from various spiritual traditions for affirmation and healing - angelic sounds to summon up warmth and wonder.
Ralph Nimmann
Ralph leads a Taizé harmony singing group in Cambridge and is a member of the Cambridge Georgian choir CHELA. He also led the Berlin Chanting Group for 6 years.
“Ralph is wonderfully patient and takes great care to make sure that everyone feels included. …Ralph could get even the most hardened non-singer to surprise themselves.” (feedback from a Cambridge Taizé singer).
His teaching style could be described as “Sacred Fun”. Ralph especially loves leading peace dances sung in harmonies. Read more: http://www.rainbow-cambridge.org.uk/dances/
Ralph will be leading Taizé singing sessions at the camp.
Habiba Willow
Habiba has been involved with Dances of Universal Peace for over 20 years and leading them for most of that time. She was in at the start of the Peace Through the Arts camp, which subsequently evolved into the Sacred Arts Camp. She has also had a long connection with Sufism and its various practices.
Particularly in the last 8 years or so, the ancient Sanskrit prayers and mantras have inspired her a lot and been a regular part of her practice. Two of Habiba’s primary inspirations are Haidakhan Babaji and Amma, the hugging saint - but she will pick up Bhajans wherever she will!
At the camp Habiba and Buddhenath will offer Bhajan singing, accompanying the sessions on the Indian harmonium. Bhajans are devotional mantras in the Sanskrit language and have a very uplifting effect!
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