A chatty podcast raising awareness about vocal health and wellbeing, from voice, performance and wellbeing coach Leigh Martyn Thomas and her guests in media, education & the performing arts.
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Friday Jan 22, 2021
Friday Jan 22, 2021
My guest this week is singing teacher, creative performing artist and writer Rebecca Schwarz. Rebecca has had a rollercoaster journey with her voice from losing all her confidence during her acting training to completely losing her singing voice for over six months, tied to her post natal depression, she understands what it is like to be afraid and feel vulnerable around voice use.
That chapter of her life inspired Rebecca to write her one woman musical “Baby Brained” and she was in the middle of touring it with Arts Council Funding before the project was paused due to Covid-19.
Rebecca has established many choirs and currently runs Cantare Choir as well as teaching privately a mix of shy compete beginners and professional voice users (currently online only). She is trained and qualified in loads of different approaches and likes to facilitate her clients so they get the most from their lessons.
Once the “Baby Brained” tour is back up and running, we would love Rebecca to come and perform it in Colchester!
I’ve invited Rebecca on to chat about her journey, her creative process and along the way we chat through the challenges of moving events online and future projects. Rebecca is also on the Education Committee of the British Voice Association and has been involved in some brilliant events and has more to come in 2021 online!
During our chat Rebecca names Liane Carroll as a favourite and here you can check out the song she mentions performed live at Ronnie Scotts Jazz Cafe : walk on the wild side
We were catching up while Rebecca is at home with her husband Matt and two children so there is a little background noise a couple of times, hey that’s real life folks! It’s an absolute pleasure to chat with Rebecca who is brilliantly funny, quick witted and open minded. I look forward to a future time when we can get ourselves out to sing together once more!
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