About ...

• Heather comes from a musical family in Cornwall, and started performing in public aged 10. She made her professional debut in her teens singing with the Gang of 4 on BBC's Whistle Test with Eddi Reader.
  
  
• She studied for 5 years at two leading conservatoires, Trinity College of Music, London and Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Margaret Lensky and John Wakefield, becoming a Fellow and Licenciate of Trinity in 1992.
• Heather is known for being versatile and easy to work with as a session singer. With instinctive ability to harmonise and layer vocals.
• She delivers a wide range of styles, from haunting celtic and mellow jazz to edgy pop and dramatic colluratura soprano (hear Heather's showreel).
• Heather is an experienced Voiceover artist and broadcaster.
  
  She has recently been heard commentating for BBC radio on Celebrity Fame Academy for Comic Relief

While studying Heather was "moonlighting" as a Soul and Jazz artiste with Challenge Records and Fate productions alongside Soul II Soul singer Caron Wheeler. In 1990 Dame Cleo Laine and John Dankworth awarded her the prestigious Wavendon Allmusician title by for her unique ability to perform across musical genres and boundaries. Heather enjoys challenging musical stereotypes and perceptions. She was once recruited by English National Opera (while 6 months pregnant) to appear on the Big Breakfast singing operatic arias to rush- hour motorists with Mark Lamarr! She has worked with artists as diverse as Lenny Henry, Katarina Karneus and Marion Montgomery, Heather even appeared in Doctor Who!

HRH Princess Margaret & John Dankworth

• Heather is a qualified vocal coach and singing teacher with over 12 years experience teaching students of all ages and from all backgrounds, and training in hypnotherapy and relaxation techniques from the London College of Clinical Hypnosis. Heather holds the Certificate in Life Coaching from Newcastle College. She specialises in teaching adult beginners and singers with confidence and anxiety issues.
  
  She believes passionately in the connection between singing and mental, physical and emotional well-being and is the subject of articles in The Times, Here's Health, Woman & Home, Muso, Weight Watchers, Lighter Life and Bella Magazines as well as radio shows in the UK and overseas.
• Heather has developed the Free Your Voice method of vocal training for individual students and groups. She wrote and produced the popular CD's Free Your Voice vocal workout and Creative Calm, a self-help CD to overcome stage fright, which are distributed worldwide.
  
  Heather lives in North London, is married and has 3 children and a Labradoodle.
• Call 020 8292 1064 or 07976 946315

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