When a singer finishes a concert or gig, they may find themselves in a room with a lot of background noise, having to raise their voice to be heard. This is a top cause of vocal overload.
In this session, Lucie Rayner and Besfort Williams will help singers look after their voices to prevent injury and explore what work places can do to help singers avoid vocal overload, covering the following topics:
The definition of vocal overload
The prevalence of vocal overload among voice users
Scenarios that make musicians susceptible to vocal overload
Techniques to look after the voice
What the workplace can do to help voice users -
o Quiet green room
o Vocal cool downs
o Having a space where musicians don’t need to raise their voice over background noise e.g. selling merch after a gig
Lucie Rayner is a Chartered Physiotherapist and assessing clinician for The British Association for Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM) and specialises in treating performing artists with a wide range of musculoskeletal problems. She has extensive experience in managing acute and chronic injuries in dancers, musicians, and other performers from amateur to elite level. She currently works freelance in a variety of settings, including supporting West End musical theatre performers.
Besfort Williams is a singing teacher and singing voice rehabilitation coach with almost two decades of experience working with professional voice users.
He has a busy private practice working with professional singers, actors, and dancers on developing, extending, and mending functional capacities. His clients can be seen in UK and International Tours, the West End, Broadway and on TV and Film. Alongside his private practice, Besfort is the voice rehabilitation coach at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital.
Besfort is a Faculty Member of the Somatic Voicework™ Institute, and Vocal Health Consultant for the BA Hons in Musical Theatre Course at Arts Educational Schools, where he also sits on the recall panel. He has taught at Arts Ed for 8 years and has been invited to teach at The Guildford School of Acting, Urdang and LAMDA. He is the Vocal Coach on Kinky Boots (European Tour), and has consulted for The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Young Vic, Cameron Mackintosh Ltd. and the Really Useful Group.
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