Deborah Catterall is one of the Uk’s finest choral trainers, having been co-Musical Director of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain for five years and vocal teacher/consultant with them for five years previously. She was Director of Vocal Ensembles and singing teacher at  Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester . She founded Laudamus Youth Choir in 1992 in Wigan and also runs Shine, a women’s choir alongside them.

Deborah has given workshops and masterclasses all over the UK. She directs the University of Huddersfield Choir and was vocal teacher at York St. John university. She teaches singing for Manchester university.

As a soloist, she has recorded for the Naxos label and has released two cds with early music group, The York Waits,one of which went to number one in the early music chart. She performs with lutenist Martin Eastwell and her singing was described as ‘enigmatic and beatific’. In 2003, she was invited to Buckingham Palace in recognition of her services to the British Music Industry.

She has written three hand books for singers and continues to teach privately. She has always been interested in the whole person approach to voice work and has trained as a Reiki healer and flower essence practitioner. Next year she will begin training as a psychotherapist and hopes to run a practice of music and psychotherapy.

Workshops are happy, informative and wholly experiential. They are there to empower the voice and to make good memories of singing! We’ll laugh a lot and dispel any myths about whether you can sing or not, how high or low you can go and make singing easy, comfortable and vibrant.