Vocal Freedom Episode 5 - Jedd Owen Ellis-Clark

This weeks episode features my guest Jedd Owen Ellis Clark, speaking about his journey through voice work and many other disciplines along the way.  

Jedd Owen-Ellis Clark is a voice and singing specialist, practitioner, researcher, singer, musician, writer and performer, teaching voice studies and practical vocal arts to teachers, actors, speakers and singers alike, at numerous conservatoire/university faculties and privately. He is a certified Fitzmaurice Voicework® teacher, and gained a MA [Distinction] in Practice of Voice and Singing from Guildford School of Acting, unique in its holistic practical study of interdisciplinary voice and singing pedagogies; he was awarded the Faculty Award from GSA in the same year.

He works with diverse performers and professional voice users, such as pop harmony groups, trainee lawyers and priests, teachers and business speakers, singers and actors; including recovering voices and those curious enough to want to find further depth to their vocal energy and presence.  Using physiological experiential knowledge from sports and arts, including yoga, tai chi, historical martial arts, fencing and dance, body mechanics and understanding primitive reactive states in the body that the performer can utilise, he works with individuals to find a balance of strength and flexibility, giving more openness to the voice and depth to the performance.  He also works with phonetics, accents and vocal acoustics, and presents workshops on ‘Performance Anxiety’, including presence and body:voice work, to enable performers to work ‘with’ the body’s reactive nature when ‘under pressure’.

Jedd references the Italian Tenor Lauri-Volpi, here is a link to a recording  The Great Lauri Volpi Sings "Bianca Al Par Di Neve Alpina," from Les Huguenots." 1929

As well as Steve Perry from Journey - Separate Ways

Sara Barielles - She used to be mine Live on Graham Norton Show

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