AOTOS Autumn Conference 2020

Vocal Coach Leontine Hass has worked with young professionals, as well as established artists, for many years. Her work is informed by the need to get her artists ready to perform. This requires a broader view than a sole technical focus. Although a solid and reliable technique is vital to the artist, as a teacher, Leontine believes that we must ‘zoom out’ to get the best from our artists and keep sight of the whole human being in front of us. Leontine will summarise the technical aspects she would put in place to ensure the technical stamina and flexibility required of professional commercial singers and Musical Theatre performers. She will also encourage you to look at the whole artist, and to teach whilst drawing from a variety of sources within your students as well as within yourself as a teacher. Just as the singer should never fix on a single issue, neither should the teacher. The teaching must empower an artist to make magic happen on stage. Your teaching must set your singers free, rather than shackle them either to you, or to particular technical concepts.

A seminar will be followed by excerpts of Leontine teaching three of her current clients.

Biography

Leontine Hass is an internationally renowned Vocal Coach and Principal of the Associated Studios London Performing Arts Academy. Leontine teaches workshops and lectures internationally on singing, voice and performance. She rehabilitates voices after surgery, or as surgery prevention. She has taught at leading Music & Drama Schools including GSA Conservatoire, the Oxford School of Drama, Mountview, LSMT, YMT, The Brit School, La Salle (Singapore), the Queensland Conservatorium, Centre Stage and The VCA (Melbourne). Leontine has acted as vocal consultant to various music management/production companies, including ITV and the BBC. Leontine is vocal coach for ‘The Voice’ for BBC TV. She was featured as a mentor/vocal coach on the Gareth Malone show, ‘The Naked Choir’, for BBC2 and will also be involved with Series 2. She is a regular columnist at voicecouncil.com and for The Stage newspaper. She is a contributor to ‘The Singer’s Complete Guide to Vocal Health’ (Oxford Uni. Press), and advisor/contributor to ‘The Ultimate Guide to Singing’ published by TC Helicon in 2014. Having originally trained as a classical singer (BA, Melbourne Uni, BMus. Kings College London, Dip. RAM), Leontine has performed as a singer and actress in concert, theatre and TV.