Phoene then went on to spend two decades working with a range of diverse communities in nurseries, schools, further and higher education, concert halls, social housing, care homes, hospitals, a detention centre and a prison. She has worked as a practitioner, performer, manager, therapist, lecturer and trainer and is passionate about the creative connections between music and wellbeing.
Phoene was head of the vocal team at Richmond Music Trust managing a team of peripatetic singing teachers, Head of Music Services for Nordoff Robbins Music therapy charity in London managing a team of music therapists, and also spent two years working with the prison’s most challenged and challenging women at HMP & YOI Bronzefield as well as running a music therapy group in the mother and baby unit. As a music therapist, she has creatively supported children and young people with a broad variety of social, emotional and mental health difficulties (SEMH) including young unaccompanied asylum seekers.
Phoene delivered the first Singing for Breathing programme at the Royal Brompton hospital in London in 2008 (originally working with inpatients). Outpatients and two RCT’s followed. In 2014 the British Lung Foundation invited Phoene to write and deliver training and resources for a Singing for Lung Health programme. She helped set up groups and Singing for Lung Health available now in 9 London hospitals. She has trained 200 singing for lung health leaders across the UK and Europe since 2015.
Her priority, and passion, is to give a voice to those who struggle with breathlessness, inform others of how music, movement and mindfulness can support rehabilitation, pursue robust and appropriate evaluations and encourage safe and informed practice for singing leaders, music therapists and an increasing number of other Health Care Professionals.
From April 2021 to March 2022, Phoene will be working for the East London NHS Foundation Trust as Arts Therapies Placements Development Lead to increase the reach of student placements across Bedfordshire, Luton, Milton Keynes and North East London.
Adam has specialist interests in chronic respiratory disease, pulmonary rehabilitation, singing for Lung Health and breathlessness management.
Previously he was Lecturer in Physiotherapy at Brunel University, and before that worked at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust with Dr Nick Hopkinson and Professor Michael Polkey.
He qualified as a physiotherapist with First Class honours from the University of Southampton and started his career in musculoskeletal physiotherapy. He was successful in being awarded a clinical academic PhD fellowship which he passed in 2013. His thesis was based on COPD patient experiences of their disease and pulmonary rehabilitation.
He has previously trained singing for lung health leaders on behalf of the British Lung Foundation (now Asthma + Lung UK) and chaired the UK Singing for Lung Health Consensus Group.
His publications include a systematic review, quantitative and qualitative service evaluations of Singing for Lung Health.
A vocal coach on ITV’s The Voice, The Voice Kids and BBC’s Michael McIntyre’s Big Show, Juliet has also worked with Grammy, Brit, MTV Europe and MOBO award winning artists. She has collaborated and performed with innovative artists including Damon Albarn, Imogen Heap, Paloma Faith, alt-J, Yoko Ono, Seal and Ringo Starr.
She previously led the Singing for Breathing group at Harefield Hospital and is a trainer for the British Lung Foundation’s Singing for Lung Health programme. She has created a research based toolkit for singing for lung health leaders, exploring which vocal techniques may be optimal when working with people with obstructive lung diseases. In 2015 she toured her Earth Meets Sky album collaborating with local musicians and community choirs to create ten unique performances throughout the UK.
She was formerly Academic Head of Vocals at Vocaltech (now BIMM), a lecturer at West London University and has been a visiting lecturer at Triunity Laban, the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance, John Moores' University and Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Juliet was a founding artistic director of Sense of Sound and creative director of Sing Up Greenwich and Sing Late at the V&A. She leads the Portobello Live Choir, a community choir in West London and Assemble professional choir.
You can find out more about Juliet at www.julietrussell.com
She has performed worldwide with The Swingles, The Heritage Orchestra, flamenco legend Paco Peña, the Aurora Orchestra, and London Voices, and has appeared at international venues and festivals including the Montreux and London Jazz Festivals, Milan’s La Scala, the Proms, Europa Cantat, and the Big Chill. She has also been featured as a performer and vocal coach on radio and television worldwide, including the BBC, Sky and Hollywood film scores.
Liz is dedicated to expanding choral education, innovation and participation, and is an experienced teacher of singing in schools and universities. As a choir leader she had also directed projects for the Southbank Centre's Voicelab initiative, was a choir director and is now board member of national musical charity The Choir With No Name, and has run workplace choirs at both The Guardian newspaper and Comic Relief as well as numerous community choir initiatives. Liz teaches singing at degree level at Kingston University & the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She is the Singing & Popular Music Co-ordinator at Hillingdon Music Education Hub.
As founder and director of London’s contemporary XL vocal group SOUND, Liz remains committed to creating opportunities for vocalists, and pushing the creative boundaries of vocal music.
To find out more about Liz, visit lizswain.co.uk.
Her doctoral dissertation focused on the use of singing lessons as an adjunctive airway clearance technique for cystic fibrosis and her article, “Singing for Respiratory Health: A Literature Review” was published in 2018 in the peer-reviewed Journal of Voice. She has presented her dissertation research and continuing research in the use of singing for respiratory ailments across the United States, Canada and Europe. Recently she has focused her work on helping people with lung disease to better coordinate their breath with the voice through individual lessons and the “Breathe, Sing, Move!” program.
The “Breathe, Speak, Pace” program for people experiencing long-COVID was launched in March 2021. Rachel has been in demand as a guest lecturer on breathing physiology at universities and programs across North America. As an active and trained singing voice specialist, she frequently assists injured singers, actors and other voice users referred to her from medical professionals and the voice community.
Rachel received her Doctor of Musical Arts in vocal pedagogy from Shenandoah University where she was the recipient of the Dean’s Graduate Scholar Award for “exceptional aptitude for research and scholarship.” She also holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in voice performance and pedagogy from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey.
To find out more about Rachel, visit rachelbgoldenberg.com
She works at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, where the team champion multidisciplinary approaches to a person-centered approach to recovery. Although her role is not yet recognised nationwide by the NHS, she contributes in a contracted, volunteer capacity.
Additionally Pippa contributes to the field of rehabilitation as a member of the Vocal Health Working Group at British Association for Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM). With over twenty years of experience in performing arts education, Pippa delivers voice workshops for higher education institutions and supervises students (P/T) on the MA Vocal Pedagogy programme at Voice Study Centre.
As a freelance creative voice practitioner, she offers vocal expression and exploration sessions for a wide range of arts projects. Recently, she has collaborated with women artists seeking to reconnect with their voices, led a series of voice workshops at a museum exploring vocal expression through antiquity that culminated in a new digital artwork, and is about to begin research on the use of audio interfaces and voice-activated digital art for wellbeing.
Currently a specialist paediatric respiratory physiotherapist working within a tertiary service managing children with difficult to control asthma and exercise induced laryngeal obstruction (e-ILO) at The Royal Brompton Hospital.
She is completing an NIHR funded Master in clinical research, looking at ways to identify children with asthma who may benefit from physiotherapy interventions, particularly breathing pattern retaining.
Charlotte has a passion for breathing patterns, exercise and the holistic management of every patient and she now specialises in breathing pattern retraining.
She is a Buteyko teacher and also works the rb&h Arts team at the Royal Brompton with singers and beatboxers working on the wards with children and young people with respiratory conditions. Charlotte and Phoene met at the hospital and both share a belief that singing and beatboxing provides endless benefits. It can improve breathing patterns, improve breath in singing which then impacts on daily life and exercise.
Charlotte believes it provides a fun and engaging way to provide similar interventions that respiratory physiotherapist would offer, for individuals who may or may not be engaged with their medical teams. It most importantly provides the holistic element to treatments.
Patients gain more than just better posture and breath control they gain self-belief, confidence, empowerment and a better sense of well-being. Charlotte asks the question - can we afford to not provide this in our services?
Singing has always been an important part of her leisure time, and in 2022 she was thrilled to attend Phoene’s Singing For Lung Health course.
There, by sheer good fortune, she met a Music Therapist working in the same town. She and the therapist (Nathan) subsequently joined forces and have been running Luton Singing for Lung Health Group for just over a year.
Her current work is increasingly aligning with Health and Wellbeing, Inclusion and Empowerment through the arts.
She currently works with various dance organizations in the UK with diverse community groups including young children and families, older people, women groups and people with physical and mental disabilities. She has delivered workshops at Fertility clinics, women centres, and hospitals.
As a dancer and movement director Maria is currently working in theatre and opera.
Recent and current productions include Acting Our Age (2023), Imagining Otherwise (2021-ongoing), Curiouser (2020) co-produced with dybwikdans, Norway, Birdmask music-video, works for London Contemporary Dance School and Dance East.
Past productions include: Disappearing Acts (2016), Weightless (2012-14), The Living Room (2010-2011) and digital works Border Control (2022), The Hum (2017-2021), Weighting (2015-2017), Trip Hazard (2013-ongoing) and Gravity Shift (2010-2017).
F&S run intergenerational online/live classes as partner company at Southeast Dance, Brighton.
Independent Commissions include: E-Werk Tanz Festival, Motus, National Youth Company Scotland, Edge, Scottish Dance Theatre, Ludus, Trinity-Laban, mapdance, Maslool, Stavanger University, EncoreEast & Threescore.
A reader in dance Yael directs mapdance, Chichester University’s MA/postgraduate touring company.
Holding a MMus in Voice from Trinity Laban, Natasha has a broad portfolio of collaborative practice, ranging from interdisciplinary arts to working with diverse groups, including community and workplace choirs, participatory arts projects, and initiatives focused on singing for health.
Natasha is dedicated to an inclusive and responsive style of facilitation which has been recognised by a wide range of commissioning organisations, including the Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals Trust, London Irish Centre, Tate Modern, Trinity Laban Conservatoire, V&A and Maritime Museums and the Wellcome Collection.
Natasha is in demand as a trainer and mentor in the fields of singing and health, and creative group facilitation.
For more information on Natasha's projects, please visit www.natashalohan.co.uk
Before going freelance in 2015, he was Head of Digital at a leading professional services branding agency, where clients included some of the UK's leading law firms. Prior to that he had worked for digital and branding agencies in London and Brighton, primarily in project and account management roles.
As a freelancer, he has worked with a range of organisations - including arts evaluation agencies, tech start-ups and government schemes - providing business, branding and marketing advice, as well as project management support.
