The Choir Doc+or Choral Clinics are designed to asess and develop every area of choral singing, focussing not only on vocal techniques, but also on team-building and ensemble skills. The key areas covered are:

• Warming-up for a better sound

• Posture and relaxation

• Breathing, support - Respiratory strength

• Waking up the brain - Mental stimulation & memory skills

• Healthy singing techniques for stamina and flexibility of sound
  

• Changing Choral Colour and New approaches to repertoire

• Working as an effective ensemble - team building and group interaction

• Training your singers to be leaders

• Dealing with performance tensions                                 

• Communicating with your audience
  

Singing has a wide range of personal benefits besides learning about music and how to create it. A recent education research project at Roehampton University has shown that, as well as developing and improving healthy singing techniques, The Choir Doc+or Choral Clinics offer multiple physiological and social benefits to all participants, including:

The Choir Doc+or Clinic provides a fun, inclusive and stress-free environment for bonding your choir, and is proven to help develop your choir's collective identity. Read more about the social benefits of choral singing on the Science of Choral Singing page.

Using a range of holistic teaching methods, co-operative learning techniques and team-building games, and a vast selection of choral workshop songs (including gospel, folk, classical, world music and pop), The Choir Doc+or will really give your choir something to sing about!

See what our previous clients say about The Choir Doc+or clinics: 

"With the focus on the production of different vowel sounds we were encouraged to create sounds in spaces we didn't know we had.... By the end of a most enjoyable evening we had all improved our knowledge of the relationship between vocal techniques and the sounds that we make, especially the different vowel sounds needed by different languages - even if we were singing in English."

Penny Yates, Chair - Milton Keynes Chorale

The Choir Doc+or "took a workshop with our choir with the aim of improving members' vocal technique. The day was split into 4 sessions focussing on different aspects of singing from warming-up the voice, correct posture, sounding different vowels and consonants and looking at breathing and phrasing. We also had a chance to work on some of our own songs in preparation for our concert as well as discovering some new ones. Our choir learnt a lot from the experience and the singing was noticably improved by the end of the session - it was amazing to hear the change in quality and sound possible, just by making a host of small changes..... The whole experience was a lot of fun and (the) infectious enthusiasm carried over into our songs and injected our music with energy and dynamism."

James Hugall, Chairman - Jazzmanix, Southampton University

From vocal health issues to performance presentation skills, The Choir Doc+or has the knowledge and experience to cure any choral ailment, and set your choir on a path towards excellent musical health.

Visit the 'Contact' page to find out how The Choir Doc+or could benefit your choir...