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Craig Lees

LivingVocally.com

About Craig

Professional Vocal Coaching. Available in Leeds, Manchester or via Skype.  Workshops also available on location throughout the UK.   

Experienced choral director and vocal arranger, specialising in contemporary pop music. Founder of the LCoM Contemporary Choir.   

 

Craig is a Contemporary Vocal Coach, Choral Director, and Arranger. He is a Senior Lecturer on the Popular Music Degree at Leeds College of Music, where he founded the LCoM Contemporary Pop Choir in 2014. He is also the Musical Director behind Leeds Contemporary Singers, a nine piece vocal harmony group that recently rose to fame as the winners of BBC One's Pitch Battle show.

 

Craig coaches for Smith's record label (Nigel Martin-Smith) and has also had the pleasure of working with chart-topping artist Will Young (whilst on Pitch Battle) and internationally acclaimed artist Marc Almond.

 

Craig holds the post of "Musician in Residence" for the West Yorkshire Playhouse program for young people, where he directs the "Living Vocally" choir and facilitates several other community-based groups. He has delivered projects for leading voice technology manufacturer TC-Helicon, Mind The Gap Theatre Company (England's largest learning-disability theatre house) and runs a regular choir for the John Lewis Partnership.

 

He is a director of the British Voice Association (BVA) and was recently awarded the ‘Sing For Pleasure Young Conductor's Scholarship’. He has presented internationally on the topic of choral pedagogy and delivered choral workshops throughout the UK and abroad.

BA (Hons), MA (Dist).
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Professional Vocal Coaching

Craig Lees coaching - Lilly Kerby
Craig Lees vocal coaching - Sam Hoare

 

Craig is an experienced and in demand vocal coach. His clients include Leeds College of Music, Leeds Theatre Trust & Mind The Gap Theatre Company.

 

 

Vocal Training...

 

  • Warm-ups / Warm-downs

  • Scales / modes & their applications in pop music

  • Intonation

  • Diction / Articulation

  • Projection & Balance

  • Active Posture

  • Recoil Breathing

  • Song Interpretation

  • Performance Technique

  • Aural Awareness & Vocal Harmony

  • Musicianship & Deportment 

  • Vocal Health & Hygiene

 

 

 

 

Craig's teaching practice is based in the Northwest of the UK, he is available on location nationwide or via skype upon request.  

 

 

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Tel: 07866886344

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