In Conversation with Linda Wise

This event provides a rare opportunity to hear Linda Wise, one of the world's leading vocal teachers, speak in Melbourne (Australia) about her experiences of working with and teaching voice, especially extended voice in the tradition of Alfred Wolfsohn, Roy Hart and the Roy Hart Theatre.

Born and brought up in Kenya, Linda trained at the Royal Conservatory of Scotland. She met Roy Hart when she was 19 and wrote her thesis on the Roy Hart Theatre before joining the company full-time in London. Since Roy Hart’s death she has performed in or directed over 40 productions: solos, concerts, operas, devised performances, cabarets and has been the vocal coach in many more.

Curious by nature she has continued to study and question her own status quo – classical and contemporary singing, music, dance, performance art … She co-directs Pantheatre with Enrique Pardo and has had the chance to meet, work with and be challenged by some of the most important contemporary artists and thinkers and of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Passionately concerned with a vision of the voice that engages the widest possible perspective on each person’s individuality, she has taught in over 30 countries which she considers as a gift in learning to appreciate difference and the other.