Educator

“Pamela is just a fantastic fountain of knowledge when it comes to singing, which I found quite inspiring.”
“What I liked most about the course was how engaging Pamela was, and I felt I wasn’t being talked at but talked to – everyone was encouraged to share and it felt like a safe space to do that. I liked how practical it was and things you could take away straight back to the classroom.”
“Can I just say, this term has been the first term in over a year that I managed not to lose my voice completely by the end of term, thanks to the tips and tricks learnt [from Pamela]”
“Pamela was incredibly personable and motivational.”
“Pamela was amazing – so engaging and supportive.”

Pamela has been a teacher alongside her performing career for over 20 years. She started teaching while a Master of Music student, when Professor Thomas Grubb appointed her to the coveted position of Teaching Assistant at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore.

Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House Covent Garden have appointed her to be a Create and Sing Artist for their Create and Sing Programme, delivering opera education and teacher training to schools across the U.K. with operas such as Carmen and Hansel and Gretel. The ROH commissioned her to devise the warm-ups for their newest addition, “Create and Sing The Magic Flute,” for which they filmed her presenting the songs and warm-ups in videos available on the ROH website. She was then invited to appear in a live broadcast, presenting the debut of the new “Create and Sing The Magic Flute” nationally to all their partners, and on the main stage of the Royal Opera House as the Narrator, under the baton of Richard Hetherington and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House.

Having seen Pamela’s expertise in developing young voices, the ROH have then invited her to be the singing teacher for the ROH Youth Opera Company, giving individual singing lessons and conducting the full chorus in rehearsals. She supervised the children’s chorus in rehearsal for the main stage production of Cavalleria Rusticana under Sir Antonio Pappano.

Chair, AOTOS

Pamela is Chair of the Association of Teachers of Singing, where she organises national conferences, the teacher training programme, and creates strategy for the future of the organisation, including partnerships with other national music organisations.

She has also served as Editor of AOTOS’s Annual Review magazine. Her work there includes researching and commissioning articles, interviews and reviews of the leading singing teachers and pedagogues, editing and publishing them in the Newsletters and Annual Review magazine. For the Annual Review she interviewed Michael Rosen about his experiences with Speech and Language Therapy, and the directors of English National Opera’s Breathe programme, for sufferers of Long Covid.

Keynote Speaker

Pamela has been invited to give a keynote talk for the British Voice Association on rehabilitating children’s voices and Ark Academy Schools Trust on healthy singing for classroom teachers.

Course Creator

The Royal Opera House commissioned Pamela to create their official “Healthy Singing for Teachers” course, which she has then delivered both online and in person to ROH partners around the country.

Singing Teacher

Pamela has taught individual lessons in schools since 2010. She was appointed Singing Teacher (maternity cover) for Eton College, she was appointed Head of Singing at Newton Prep Battersea (giving technique lessons to and conducting the elite cathedral choir), and in 2013 James Allen’s Girls’ School’s Saturday School for the Performing Arts (Jasspa) appointed her as singing teacher where she continues to work today. She has also taught for 10 years at Kingsdale Foundation School, south east London’s music specialist secondary school, where many of her pupils went on to careers in music. Pamela is now a singing teacher at St Dunstan’s College, Independent School of the Year at the 2023 International Elite 100 Global Awards.

Animateur

Pamela has worked as principal animateur for English Pocket Opera Company for 10 years, leading opera education workshops for thousands of school children across London in their renowned “SingFest” series, which culminate in large-scale performances of operas at venues including the Royal Albert Hall, for which Pamela sang the roles of Juliet (Romeo and Juliet), Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice), and Titania (The Fairy Queen), and former London 2012 Olympics stadium the Copper Box Arena, for which Pamela acted as producer and sang the role of Micaëla (Carmen), in partnership with the Royal Opera House.

EPOC has also been privileged to work with schools in Bosnia i Herzegovina, recreating the SingFest workshops for the schools and special needs schools in Mostar. Sponsored by Sir Richard Stilgoe, EPOC have used operas like Romeo and Juliet to bring together children from both the East and West sides of the city to collaborate on full performances.

Mentor

Through the partnership with the Association of Teachers of Singing, Pamela has mentored Fellows from the National Youth Choir Fellowship.

Pamela is very proud to be a mentor for Arts Emergency.

Professional Memberships

Association of Teachers of Singing (Chair Elect and Trustee)

British Voice Association

Singing for Health Network

Independent Society of Musicians

Equity