BVA COUNCIL
Page updated: 24th May 2011
Council and officers
Dane Chalfin, Kim Chandler (President-Elect), Phil Jones, Sue Jones, Katharine Lewis, Sharat Mohan, Rebecca Moseley-Morgan, Penny-Anne O’Donnell, Pam Parry, Frith Trezevant.
President (2011/12): Tom Harris
Treasurer: Kate Young
Company Secretary: Kristine Carroll-Porczynski
Biographies
Dane Chalfin: is a contemporary commercial vocal coach and Principal Lecturer in voice at Leeds College of Music. He is also Vocal Rehabilitation coach at Wythenshawe Hospital where he assists with the twice-monthly Elite Vocal Performer Clinic and has an individual and joint caseload of professional voice-users with organic/functional voice disorders. His private clientele consists of well-known singers and actors as well as pre/post-operative patients. He is often called in as a consultant in ‘emergency' situations at recording studios and theatres nationally. He is a regular presenter on rehabilitating injured singers with his colleagues Phil Jones (Consultant ENT) and Sue Jones (Head of Speech, Voice Swallowing Services) at national/international voice conferences and also runs many teacher training programmes for other singing teachers and vocal coaches. His current research interests include extreme voice-use and neurology in singing.
Kim Chandler MMus, BMusEd, AMusA, is a highly experienced and qualified, London-based professional session singer and contemporary vocal coach who has over two decades of high-end performing experience in both live performance and studio singing. Around her performing schedule, she maintains a busy private teaching studio where she teaches well-known artists, artists in development, professional singers and other vocal coaches.
Kim features in the media as a vocal coach and presents regularly at national & international voice conferences, masterclasses, workshops and teacher training events. Academically, she was a degree lecturer in contemporary singing for 10 years at the London College of Music, where she also completed her Masters in Performance (with distinction) in 2001. Kim's pioneering "Funky 'n Fun" vocal training series sets new standards in contemporary vocal pedagogy and is a top seller internationally.
Tom Harris MA, FRCS: Consultant ENT Surgeon at University Hospital Lewisham and Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup. Tom opened one of the first Multidisciplinary Voice Clinics in Britain at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford in 1982. He now runs the Sidcup Voice Clinic with Sara Harris, (Speech Therapist) Jacob Lieberman (Osteopath and Psychotherapist) and Dinah Harris (Voice Coach). He was the Founding Chairman of The Voice Research Society, the predecessor of The British Voice Association. He is the principal editor and contributor to The Voice Clinic Handbook and was recently made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
Philip H Jones MA, FRCS: is interested in audit, microsurgery and service delivery and believes voice is central to humanity and dysphonia care means multidisciplinary. He helped develop UHSM Voice Clinics Service from 1988. He wrote guidelines for SALT endoscopy in UHSM in 1995, was an ENT advisor for the RCSLT endoscopy guidelines and chief author of the ENT-UK guidelines on fibre-optic endoscope decontamination. He contributed to the Laryngeal Intervention Clinic and Laryngeal Dysplasia Consensus Guidelines. He has presented on voice nationally and internationally and helped host a Voice Clinics Forum day and Manchester Voice Conferences for the BVA. He is the external examiner for the London MSc in Voice Pathology and is currently auditing surgical and voice outcomes of layered resection of early glottic carcinomas, Permacol thyroplasty and transverse cordotomy for bilateral abductor palsy.
Sue M Jones BSc, MSc, MRCSLT: has 28 years experience working with Voice Disorders. She is a key player in developing the Voice Service at University Hospital of South Manchester which holds 5 voice clinic sessions per week, including one for Elite Vocal Performers. She believes strongly in a multidisciplinary approach and has recently developed the post of “Vocal Rehabilitation Coach” to assist in the treatment of vocally injured professional performers. Her personal “obsessions” in voice include: research into the evidence-base for therapy, endoscopy in the assessment/therapeutic management of voice disorders, perceptual analysis, training of SLTs and other professionals, managing the injured professioanl singer and voice therapy pre- and post-phonosurgery. She holds an MSc in Voice Research (Newcastle University) and is an adviser on Voice Disorders to the RCSLT. She has presented at major national and international meetings.
Katharine Lewis BA ARCM: Katharine read Music at Durham University before studying singing in London. Her husband’s work took her abroad, first to South Africa and then to Hong Kong. In both places, she was able to enjoy combining a busy performing career with starting a family. On moving back to the UK, the family settled in Canterbury where Katharine re-established her performing and teaching career. Teaching is now a full-time occupation, involving King’s and St Edmund’s Schools in Canterbury, the Canterbury Cathedral Choristers, the Royal College of Music Junior Department and the National Youth Choir. Katharine also teaches scholarship students at the University of Kent and has recently been appointed coach to Eltham College Treble Choir. Katharine has been a keen member of the BVA for many years.
Sharat Mohan BSc, MBBS, MS, FRCS, FICS: ENT Surgeon and Laryngologist, Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Derby. ENT training in India and UK. Phonosurgery training Netherlands. Set up Voice Clinic Derby 1998. Courses conducted: Flexible, Rigid Endoscopy, Stroboscopy, FEES/ST and manual therapy courses since 2005 (accredited by RCSLT). Annual workshops on Voice Surgery in India since 2001. Overseas advisor to the Association of Phonosurgeons of India. BVA Voice Clinic forum Derby with Kate Young, SLT, Nov. 2006. Presentations: BACO, Birmingham 2003; Prize-winning presentation in North of England ENT Meeting (Thyroplasty results 2004); BVA, Voice Clinic forum Derby 2006, London 2008; PEVOC, Groningen 2007 (Thyroplasty techniques); World Voice Conference, Istanbul 2007. Instructional Courses Conducted: Laryngeal sensory testing/transnasal oesophagoscopy Australian ENT Conference 2007, Adelaide; Laryngeal sensory testing – European Dysphagia meeting, Brussels 2008. Currently setting up One-stop Dysphagia Clinic, Derby with Kate Young. Interests: Multidisciplinary work with SLT; Professional Voice.
Rebecca Moseley-Morgan PG cert. Musicology BA (Hons) ARCM (Hons): is a professional singer, teacher, director and conductor. She studied at the RCM and Opera School and worked professionally at Glyndebourne, WNO, Opera 80 and many smaller companies. She has directed opera productions for Opera Fest, Opera Anywhere and Chipping Norton Opera and as a recitalist performed at Purcell Room and Wigmore Hall, throughout UK and France. She has a private teaching practice where she sees 50+ singers per week. In addition to this she teaches and conducts choirs at St. Clare’s International College and Bloxham, Independent School and also conducts a ladies vocal ensemble 'Cantatrici'. She is currently taking a masters degree in Musicology and will continue to PhD to investigate how voice science can be applied to all genres of voice teaching. She takes a holistic approach to teaching singing and is always keen to learn new techniques and methods to enrich her teaching.
Penny-Anne O’Donnell BSc (Hons) London MRCSLT MASLTIP HPC Reg: Penny's fascination with voice started whilst at the National Youth Theatre. She then studied Speech Sciences at UCL and worked for many years within the NHS in both adult and paediatric fluency and voice. She now works in private practice across Worcestershire, Warwickshire and the West Midlands. Her special interest areas are professional voice-users and stress-related vocal problems. Recently she enjoyed working with the RSC, Cameron Mackintosh’s touring company and speaking at the Anglo-French ENT Conference. She also delivers voice seminars for teachers, relaxation workshops and has produced a CD/DVD “Breathe Your Way to Calmness”. Her love of performing continued during her postgraduate acting course at Webber Douglas. She also trained and worked as a journalist at the BBC as a radio reporter and theatre reviewer. She has been a fundraiser for BCC (British Cancer Campaign) for many years helping to organise and co-ordinate events.
Pam Parry GMus, ARCM: Singer and Teacher, Pam currently divides her time between teaching, acting, writing, singing and directing. She is a performance and repertoire coach and is the Specialist Singing Teacher on the Voice Clinic Team at the Royal Sussex Hospital. She is very dedicated to the multi-disciplinary approach to voice. She is a Vocal Diagnostician and Singing Teacher at the Central School of Speech & Drama London. Pam specialises in working as a trouble-shooter and problem solver in speaking and singing rehabilitation of the injured voice, and having successfully overcome voice crash herself, she has particular success in dealing with anxiety and stage fright. She has been a member of the BVA for over 13 years and has served as a director for 3, acting as one of the organizing team for the Emotional Voice meeting held to celebrate World Voice Day in 2009.
Frith Trezevant ARCM (Singing), LTCL (Speech and Drama, Music Education): Frith performed in opera, recital and drama as a young singer and actress in New Zealand, and was a frequent broadcaster with Radio NZ. She came to London to work with David Harper and Janice Chapman, winning awards from the an Fleming Foundation and the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies. When her family were young, Frith was Director of Colourstrings Music Kindergarten, and went on to become Head of Singing at the Bristol Academy of Performing Arts where her teaching focus was young adults. Singing Advisor to the Voice Clinic at St. Michael's Hospital, and currently teaching at The Red Maids School and in private practice in Bristol, Firth also teaches on choral courses run by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, and deputises at the Junior Dept of the Royal College of Music. She is intrigued by voice science and its application to teaching.
Kate Young BAppSci, MRCSLT: Clinical Lead Speech & Language Therapist ENT Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Derby. B.App Sci (Speech Pathology) La Trobe University Melbourne, Australia. Conducts Voice Clinic Derby with S. Mohan (1999). Set up SLT led Voice Clinic 2006. Courses conducted: Flexible, Rigid Endoscopy, Stroboscopy; FEES/ST and manual therapy courses since 2005 (accredited by RCSLT); Annual workshops - Voice Therapy & Surgery in India since 2001. Overseas SLT advisor to the Association of Phonosurgeons of India. BVA Voice Clinic forum Derby with Sharat Mohan, Nov. 2006. Presentations: BACO, Birmingham 2003; BVA, Voice Clinic forum Derby 2006, London 2008; PEVOC, Groningen 2007 (Thyroplasty techniques); World Voice Conference, Istanbul 2007. Instructional Courses Conducted: LST/TNO Australian ENT Conference 2007, Adelaide; Laryngeal sensory testing – European Dysphagia meeting, Brussels 2008; Currently setting up One-stop Dysphagia Clinic, Derby with Sharat Mohan. Interests: Singing; Therapy for Laryngeal Framework surgery.
