Vocal Training
Are you interested in gaining the most from your voice? Do you want to know how it works? Tim Richards and Ian Nicholas are amongst the most innovative and progressive vocal coaches working in the professional industry today.
Singing Lessons
Whether you are looking for a regular programme of study to help you develop, or a few lessons to help you prepare for a role, How The Voice Works can help. Our expertise will allow us to quickly identify what you need help with, and put in place a programme of practice to help you improve.
Online Training
They are cost and time effective. You don’t have to leave the house! Nothing beats a live face to face session, but an online session, via our Zoom platform can be a valuable additional way of getting expert tutoring. Find out more about our membership.
Estill Voice Training
The Estill Model has changed the training of the modern singer greatly in recent years. A deeper understanding of the physiology, and how it relates to the sounds that we make has enriched our understanding of how we can use the muscles to communicate.
Wales’ only Estill Teachers
Tim and Ian are amongst the UK's most experienced Estill Teachers, with more than thirty years of combined experience in working with the model. They are delighted to be at the forefront of delivering training in the Estill Model throughout Wales and the South West.
Meet the teachers
Tim Richards and Ian Nicholas are highly innovative vocal coaches and amongst the UK's most experienced Estill Master Trainers. They present workshops and masterclasses throughout the UK and abroad. Clients can be seen in principal roles across the West End and in the major Opera Houses of Europe . They have taught at many of the leading schools and colleges including the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Mountview, Royal Academy of Music, Arts Ed and Sibelius Academy, Helsinki.
Ian Nicholas
Ian is an International Vocal Coach working in Wales, London and across Europe. He lectures in Singing at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff and was formerly a Vocal Tutor at the Faculty of Musical Theatre at Mountview, London. He has been a visiting or guest lecturer at Arts Ed, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki and The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Ian holds an Honours Degree in Music from Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Tim Richards
Having trained classically and singing professionally before moving into Musical Theatre, Tim has a true understanding of what the modern singer needs to help them perform to their maximum potential. Tim spent over 10 years as a performer before becoming a vocal coach. That experience is essential to link application to vocal training. Tim now is in high demand as a vocal coach in the UK and Internationally working in both the Classical and Musical Theatre world.
Associate Teachers
David Laugharne
David Laugharne is a music director based in the UK. He studied music at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff and after graduating embarked on a career performing worldwide. He has conducted ‘Avenue Q’, ‘Legally Blonde’ and ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ in London’s West End and ‘Miss Saigon’, ‘The King and I’ and ‘Annie’ on UK tours. He has played in the orchestra pits of musicals including, ‘Les Miserables’, ‘Wicked’, ‘The King & I’, ‘Jersey Boys’, ‘Sunset Boulevard’, ‘Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’, ‘Lion King’ and many others.
Find out about our upcoming courses and practice groups
The Balanced Voice
Whilst Laryngeal Manual Therapy (LMT) can be an effective tool for restoring or promoting laryngeal mobility, the effects are transient and must be combined with other training to help establish or restore a more efficient pattern of movement. In our Balanced Voice clinic, Ian is able to combine the unique perspective of an expert teacher and manual therapist into an integrated strategy for rehabilitation where therapy and training take place side by side.
Courses for you
We run a comprehensive programme of courses and if you are interested in voice, then we have something for you. There are training days on Estill In Action, Belting, Classical Voice and Manual Therapy in the months ahead alongside Estill Practice Groups and our five day Estill Level 1&2 Courses. If you would to discuss a bespoke Course or Masterclass for your department, college staff development or CEN then get in touch.