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I am a PAVA-Recognized Vocologist and Designated Linklater Teacher specializing in Contemporary Commercial Music and voice habilitation as well as voice and speech for actors.
I am the Area Coordinator of the CCM Voice Area at WLU, where I also instruct the Stagecraft Music Theatre Ensemble and Acting for Musicians. I have taught and coached productions in Theatre and Drama Studies at Sheridan College and the University of Toronto and my voice students have gone on to perform at The Stratford Festival, The Charlottetown Festival, Mirvish, Drayton, on North American tours and Broadway.
I am the Founder and Executive Director of The Singer's Theatre, a music theatre training program that attracts singers from across North America since 2002, and have served as vocal director for Celebrity Cruise Lines and Japan Cruise Lines.
I adjudicate regularly for classical, choral, pop, speech and music theatre categories from coast to coast and internationally. I am a founding director of Canada’ s PAVA Chapter (Pan-American Vocology Association) and currently serve as the Canadian Governor to PAVA.
I have a life-long interest in vocal health and voice disorders. My research on the Linklater voice progression and its implementation in Community Music contexts and vocal health has been published in the Voice and Speech Review.
Vocology is the science and practice of voice habilitation. I am passionate about finding ways to connect all voice professionals together in community including laryngologists, speech-language pathologists, voice teachers, actors, and anyone who identifies as a voice professional to create safe spaces and tear down stigma.
- Interactive Workshop: Voice Sculptures: A Linklater Approach to Exploring Your Voice
- Pan-American Vocology Association: National Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, 2025
- Presentation: Linklater in the Singing Studio: Applications of the Linklater method in Western Classical and Contemporary Commercial Music Voice Pedagogy and Habilitation
- Pan-American Vocology Association National Conference, Houston, Texas, USA, 2024
- Presentation: Linklater and Vocology in Studio Practice: A Conversation About Resonance and Registration in the Singing Voice Studio, National Voice Association (NVA) National Conference, St. Catherine’s, ON, 2024
- Presentation: Freeing the Natural Voice: How the Linklater Method Works in the Singing Studio, National Association of Teachers of Singing, On Point Livestream, 2024
- Panel Presentation: Adjudicating Singers - CCM and Music Theatre, Co-Presented with Gloria Gassi, National Association of Teachers of Singing, On Point Livestream, 2022
- Broadway World Toronto: Best Youth Theatre Production
- 2 Professional Development Grants from the Canada Council for the Arts
- 1st Place as Conductor of the Grand Philharmonic Youth Choir (GPYC) in Vienna, Austria
- 1st Place as Conductor of the GPYC in the National Canadian Music Festival
- Performed with Kenny Rogers, Foreigner, Video Games Live, among others
Curation
- Master Class: Donna Feore Music Theatre Performance
- Master Class: Lindsay Mendez: Performing on Broadway
- Master Class: Caissie Levy: Performing on Broadway
- Workshop: Donna Feore: Mock Auditions and Master Class
- Workshop: Bruce Dow: Acting for Singers
- Presentation and Scoping Demonstration: Amy Vaughn: A Look Inside
- Master Class: BLK-GEM - The Art of Entertainment K-Pop Studios: Faculty Teacher Training, Bangkok, Thailand, 2024
- Workshop: Music Theatre Intensive Training Program - International School of Beijing
- Beijing, China, 2013
- Workshop: Dynamic Vocal Performance “Et Tout Ce Jazz”! - Espace Comédie Musicale
- Lyon, France, 2020 (cancelled due to Covid 19)
- Bravo Music Festival and CMTG Young Musician Festival
- Bangkok, Thailand, 2025 (invited back for 2027)
- Remote adjudications, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- Performing Arts BC - Nanaimo, BC
- Pacific Northwest Music Festival - Terrace, BC
- Alberta Music Festival Association - Edmonton, AB
- Edmonton Music Festival - Edmonton, AB
- Calgary Performing Arts Festival - Calgary, AB
- Prince Edward Island Kiwanis Music Festival - Charlottetown, PEI
- Queens’ County Music Festival - Charlottetown, PEI
- Carbonear Kiwanis Music Festival - Carbonear, NFLD
- Corner Brook Rotary Music Festival - Corner Brook, NFLD
- New Brunswick Federation of Music Festivals - Remote
- Associated Manitoba Arts Festival - Remote
- Hynatyshyn Foundation - Remote
- NATS Journal Of Singing “Managing Voice Problems in the Private Studio,” Vol. 64, No. 5, pp. 615-618. (May/June 2008).
- Brunk, A. (2023). Voicing for Life: A Study to Explore the Benefits of Linklater Voice in a Community Music Curriculum. Voice and Speech Review, 17(3), 260–268. https://doi.org/10.1080/23268263.2023.2246308
- “A Grand Christmas” (The Grand Philharmonic Youth and Children’s Choirs), 2016.
I believe that the voice is a unique and unlimited conduit for human expression and that everyone deserves to have access to their own personal vocal experience. Whether it is through speaking or singing, I strive to provide the tools and space for each individual to explore the foundations of somatic freedom, vocal function and artistic expression within the scope of their culture, experience and world-view.
In my teaching, I aim to help the student, through lessons and/or coaching, find a fully-balanced equilibrium in their voice and vocal range using all of the colours, resonances and emotions available to them. I work to achieve this through cross-training between classical, music theatre, CCM and acting voice pedagogies combined. My background of undergraduate studies in Western Classical voice pedagogy and over 20 years of studying belting and alternative vocal production allows me to offer an “outside the box” approach to vocal expression and technique.