Sheena McInnes - Vocal Coach/Teacher
Sheena has developed a unique coaching concept designed for singers and performers to help them reach the full potential of their vocal and performance ability. Combine this with confidence building and you have an amateur with a professional attitude.
A singing teacher 'teaches' people to sing - a vocal coach encourages singers to bridge the gap between singing and acting, by helping them to interpret songs in their own individual style. Sheena can transform your performance/production to a professional standard either with individual singing lessons or by coming into your rehearsal room and providing tailored coaching for your show or concert.
Sheena is a performer of 40 years experience at both amateur and professional standard. She was coached and mentored from an early age by some of the most experienced and leading people in the fields of Rock, Pop, Jazz, Choral Singing, Opera and Musical Theatre. She has 20 years teaching and coaching experience and has developed a unique style of coaching in order to promote and encourage the enjoyment of singing and performance.
Sheena, a member of the British Voice Association, is passionate about maintaining vocal health and incoporates this into her teaching along with technique and peformance coaching - The Complete Singing Lesson.
'Most people can sing the notes - not everyone can perform the song'
Sheena McInnes
Nigel Lilley - Music Advisor for SingersCraft
Nigel studied at King's College London and the Royal Academy of Music where he was the recipient of the DipRam award. Nigel is currently Musical Director for La Cages aux Folles at the Menier Chocolate Factory. Most recently he was the Musical Director for the UK tour of Acorn Antiques (directed by Victoria Wood) The Bacchae for the National Theatre of Scotland, Edinburgh and conductor for Les Miserables with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Other Musical Director credits include Couples in Counterpoint (Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House), Oklahoma! and Songs for a New World (both at Mountview), The Last Session (UK premiere, Hackney Empire Studio), Putting it Together (Harrogate Theatre) and Glitter and Twisted (Beckett Theatre, New York).
As Assistant Musical Director credits include Sinatra (London Palladium), The Far Pavilions (Shaftesbury Theatre, Les Miserables (Denmark) and Baju Bahra (Stratford East).
As pianist Nigel has worked on Time of My Life (Bristol Old Vic), My Fair Lady (Drury Lane), Philip Quast at the Donmar (Divas season), Just So, Out of this World (Chichester), Peter Pan (Royal festival Hall, Pacific Overtures (Donmar Warehouse) and the Channel Four series Musicality.