I've been teaching and performing for 15 years. I studied the voice and its anatomy in the UK and the USA with Paul Farrington, Anne-Marie Speed & Christina Shewell. My students have been finalists on The Voice Ireland, won various music awards in the UK, garnered millions of plays on online platforms, and toured the US and Europe. They've also sung out loud in church, belted it out in the shower, and held notes that have brought them deep healing and relief.

• Hold a BA in Music from Mills College
• Have an MFA in Performance from Pratt Institute
• Studied with Estill Voice Systems in New York, Boston, and the UK
• Interviewed on BBC Radio 1 as a groundbreaking contemporary singing teacher
• Taught singing and performance at Queen's University Belfast for 4 years
• Hold a Grade 8 in Pop and Rock Vocals from Rockschool UK
• Taught at RHR Studios and Songbird Studios in San Francisco
• Led voice workshops at James Madison University, la Universidad Autonomo de Baja California (Mexico), South Eastern Regional College (Ireland), and Pratt Institute
• Have taken referrals for singers' vocal recovery from the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast and the Speech and Language Center, Virginia
• I continue to study singing with Alfonso Cid and Jonathan Hart-Makwaia in New York

"Those who can, do; those who can't teach?" Nope! I do both and love it! I regularly tour, do residencies, and take commissions for my work as a songwriter and electronic composer. And through all that, I give you a lesson each week! I appreciate innovators and their journeys, and so I also perform extended vocal works in my trio, Ends Meat' Catastrophe Jazz Ensemble. I've worked with Kronos Quartet, Fred Frith, Duke Special, the RTÉ National Orchestra, Zeena Parkins, inkboat, drummer Dony Wynn (Robert Palmer, Robert Plant), producer Brian Beattie (Okkervil River), opened for Florence + the Machine, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Devon Sproule, Steve Forbert and Eleanor McEvoy, and completed residencies and commissions for Christchurch Cathedral (Dublin), UABC (Mexico), Kunstuniverstät Graz (Austria), JMU (Virginia), and BRCC (Virginia), amongst many other people and places.

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I bring to you my training in dance, Alexander technique, and yoga. My approach takes into account the needs and abilities of each student. I have a degree in music from Mills College, Oakland, California and a grade 8 in voice from RockSchool ​(Trinity). I am deeply cross-disciplinary: I worked for 8 years in a homeless shelter in Northern Ireland, and also studied theology.