Performance Skills Class (PSC) -
attend as a participant or an observer

Venue: The Lounge, St Johns Southgate

2018: Mondays fortnightly
new time of 6:00-8:00pm

Participants: max 9
Observers: no limit
Participant $45
Observer $15
PSC dates for 2019
Semester 1
4/3, 18/3, 1/4, 29/4, 13/5,
*27/5 PSC Plus (Performance night for regular attendees to class. Different venue and time)

Semester 2
19/8, 2/9, 16/10, 14/10, 28/10,
*11/11 PSC Plus (Performance night for regular attendees to class. Different venue and time)

You do not need to purchase Private Voice Sessions to either participate or observe in Performance Skills Class
You are unable to change your class booking to another date. However, you may send someone else in your place. No refunds.

Who is Performance Skills Class for?

  • Singers of all ages, experience and genres
  • Young singers need to be in High School. No responsibility is taken for young singers, so parents are welcome to be observers
  • Singers wanting to determine if they want to register for lessons, Sounds of Southgate (Kate's ensemble), or as a participant in a Monday Performance Skills Class

What happens at Performance Class?
Performance Skills Class will begin with Voice Preparation (observers may also participate if they wish) and then be followed by performances by the participants, with feedback and tips on vocal and artistic issues. Each participant will receive approximately 12 minutes of performance and workshop time. In addition to this, singers will make further valuable, vocal and artistic discoveries by watching other performers hone their craft while receiving expert tuition.

As an observer you can watch Kate working with a range of singers of all ages and ability in the Monday Performance Skills Class.

What do I bring?
Singers are required to bring three copies of their music in the correct key, in three separate folders. (One for the accompanist, one for the teacher and their own study copy - a pencil to mark this is a good idea!)

No written critique will be given so singers are advised to record their segment.

Associate artist, the brilliant Linda O'Brien will be the regular PSC accompanist. Linda can play any type of music, including chord charts and lead sheets and she can transpose when required.

What else?
The end of each Semester will culminate in a Performance Night called PSC Plus, at a venue in Brunswick, with a different starting time of 7pm. This is an opportunity for regular PSC attendees to showcase their performance skills and invite family and friends to watch.

Performance Skills Class is also a forum and teaching practice opportunity for student singing teachers working towards their LTCL. (Licentiate of Trinity College, London, an internationally recognised degree equivalent in the specific practice of voice teaching).

A 45 minute Question Time will directly follow this class.

Question Time

Venue: The Lounge, St Johns Southgate

Class size: no limit
2018: Mondays fortnightly
8:00 - 8:45 pm (directly following PSC)
You are unable to change your class booking to another date. However, you may send someone else in your place. No refunds.
$15

Who is Question Time for?

Anyone who has attended the Performance Skills Class can make a booking and stay on for Question Time.

What happens at Question Time?
This half hour session follows every Performance Skills Class. This session is important for the LTCL student teachers and will be geared towards them. Questions can be associated with matters arising from the Performance Skills Class, but also be of a general nature pertaining to singing and the teaching of voice.
Term Dates

​Semester One
11 February to 4 April 2019
(two week Autumn break)
23 April to 13 June 2019

Winter break (6 weeks)

Semester Two
29 July to 19 September 2019
(two week Spring break)
7 October to 28 November 2019

Sounds of Southgate runs on the Tuesdays in line with these dates.

SongWorks

Venue: The Lounge, St Johns Southgate

2019: Mondays fortnightly
(the opposite week to PSC)

4 sessions fortnightly 
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6:00pm, 6:30pm, 7:00pm, 7:30pm

Please do Voice Preparation before your session.


Cost $100 ($90 for SOS and LTCL teachers)
NB This 1/2 hour session with two experts costs the same as a regular 3/4 hour singing lesson.


Dates for SongWorks are:
25/2, 11/3, 25/3, 22/4, 6/5, 20/5
12/8, 26/8, 9/9, 7/10, 21/10, 4/11

SongWorks

A new and exciting opportunity, offered exclusively at Kate's VoiceArt Consultancy.
SongWorks is a session with both our resident accompanist and co-artist Linda O'Brien and Master Teacher, Kate Sadler.

SongWorks is designed to be a stepping stone between your singing lesson and a performance of any kind including Performance Skills Class. It will also make your coaching lessons with Linda and your lessons with Kate much more effective. Accompaniments for your song can also be recorded in this session if you wish.
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Once you know your song musically and vocally, it will be ready for a SongWorks session, during which all matters pertaining to artistry, dynamics, tempi, tempi variations, phrasing and the interplay between the accompaniment and the vocal line are explored. In other words the Art part of VoiceArt.