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Angela
Dennis
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Background
I studied
music at Colchester Institute, specialising musically in the voice, and
academically in music for people with additional needs. My Masters
degree in Health & the Arts gave me enormous insight into the
value of artistic and musical expression for a person’s health
and well-being. As well as performing on voice and guitar and working
as a community musician for various organisations, I teach singing on
an individual basis, and run vocal workshops and courses for schools,
colleges and other groups.
Over the past
few years I have been involved in ‘Sounding Out’, a project
with Colchester Borough Council in collaboration with musicians from
the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, bringing opportunities for
music and singing to a wide selection of the local community,
particularly those who may have felt excluded in the past. I am
currently involved in the Youth Music ‘Singbook’
initiative in delivering training for teachers to make singing more
accessible to young people.
Current courses/workshops
in the Colchester (Essex) area:
Song styles
covered range from African lullabies to Maori love songs, world/folk
to gospel and inspirational, and from swing to pop. No previous
musical knowledge or sight-reading is necessary to take part in my
workshops - my aim is to provide opportunities for people to discover
and explore their own voice and musicality, whether it is for fun,
for learning or to enhance self-awareness and personal development.
Sing From
the Heart –
East Mersea,
4th Monday in the month. £3.50 per session including refreshments.
7.30-9.30pm.
Harmonic
Voices – informal
choir, alternate Mondays – available for bookings.
Ladies in
Harmony - Tuesday
afternoons, Lexden, Colchester.
2-3.30pm, £21 per six weeks, please phone Jean Hammond 01206 577783
for details.
Souterrain Singers -
Thursday evenings, 7.30-9.30pm, Colchester
town centre. £3.50 per session, small concessions on request for
low/unwaged.
Performance
I sing and play in a female
vocal/guitar duo – ‘Coulter’s
Candy’, incorporating a wide repertoire ranging from
traditional and contemporary folk to popular songs and
‘standards’, and also play guitar and provide vocal
harmonies with a bluegrass band – ‘Grasshoppers’.
For details of above, to book a workshop suited to your needs,
information on music in the community, reminiscence, entertainment
etc. please contact:
Angela Dennis MAHA -BA Hons
Natural Voice Practitioner
01206 504246/07812 064550
sing.ang@ntlworld.com
© Natural
Voice Practitioners' Network.
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