Join us for an exclusive webinar featuring Lucy Heyman, MSc in Performance Science, as she explores the latest insights on vocal health in 2025. Whether you’re a singer, voice teacher, or performer, this session will provide essential knowledge to maintain your vocal well-being.
Health Risks for Singers
As a singer, you face a range of health risks that can affect your vocal performance and overall well-being. Internal factors like your age, gender, body composition, and any underlying health conditions can increase your vulnerability to vocal strain and injury. Unbalanced vocal technique, low self-esteem, and a lack of emotional support can also make you more susceptible to issues. On top of that, external factors such as poor acoustics, loud environments, and demanding touring schedules can add further strain. For professional performers, financial uncertainty, bullying, and an imbalanced work-life dynamic may heighten stress, making it harder to maintain vocal health. Major transitions like starting higher education, rehearsing for a new show, or navigating an intense performance schedule can compound these challenges. But the good news is that by recognizing these risks, you can take steps to protect your voice! In this webinar, Lucy Heyman will share expert strategies to help you manage and minimize these risks.
What You’ll Learn:
- Identify and Manage Health Risks:
Understand internal and external factors that may impact your voice, from physical health conditions to environmental stressors. - Vocal Health Fundamentals:
Learn how your body functions as an instrument, including breath control, vocal fold vibration, resonance, and articulation. - Prevent and Recognize Vocal Problems:
Spot early signs of vocal strain and dysfunction, such as hoarseness or reduced range, and know when to seek professional care. - Develop Effective Routines:
Discover how to create personalized warm-up and cool-down exercises, tailored to your vocal needs. - Hydration and Nutrition for Vocalists:
Explore the importance of hydration and balanced nutrition for maintaining vocal health. - Hearing Health and Vocal Performance:
Learn how hearing loss can affect vocal performance and what you can do to protect your hearing. - Mental and Emotional Well-Being:
Gain insights into managing performance anxiety and stress to support your overall health.
Vocal health isn’t just about avoiding injury, it’s about having a strong, reliable voice that lasts a lifetime.
Why Attend?
Expert Advice Backed by Science:
Lucy Heyman combines academic research and practical experience to offer actionable insights.- Holistic Approach to Vocal Care:
The webinar covers physical, emotional, and environmental factors that influence your voice. - Prevent Long-Term Voice Problems:
Learn proactive strategies to keep your voice healthy and resilient.
Only for Professionals?
This webinar is not just for pro performers. Yes, we will put an extra focus on the health risks that professional singers are facing. However, it is a must-attend vocal health webinar for all who rely on their voice!
If your voice is an essential part of what you do, whether you’re a hobby singer, a professional performer or public speaker, then understanding vocal health is not a luxury, it’s a necessity.
Who Should Attend?
- Singers (all levels, all genres!)
- Voice teachers and coaches
- Choir members and choral directors
- Performing artists
- Actors, public speakers, and fitness instructors
- Tour guides, lawyers, teachers,… Anyone who depends on their voice!
By the end of this session, you’ll walk away with practical techniques you can apply immediately to keep your voice in top shape.
Lucy Heyman is a vocal and performance coach, researcher and lecturer. She is the co-author (with Rhian Jones) of industry-funded musicians’ health and performance manual, Sound Advice, and contributed two chapters in MITC’s Touring and Mental Health: The Music Industry Manual.
Lucy runs the musicians’ health and performance consultancy, Elevate Music, working with artists, music industry organisations, universities and charities. She also hosted the health-focused Elevate Music Podcast in partnership with Help Musicians, and has had original research published on the health and well-being experiences of singers working in pop music.
Lucy holds a MSc in Performance Science from the Royal College of Music and a BA in Music from Bristol University. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Included: After you have enrolled for this webinar, you will receive a 10% discount code for your first billing cycle if you would decide to subscribe to The singsing! Sofa Library. Members have access to the recordings of all the webinars I have ever led and hosted, including those led by the guest teachers I invite – leading experts on the voice and performance.