Learn to sing with some top names in the NI music business

Sing for Your Soul is an eight-week online singing course headed up by Salwan Cartwright-Shamoon, a postgraduate student in Vocal Performance at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and a recent recipient of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s Individual Emergency Resilience Programme (IERP).

In response to the challenges presented by the restrictions around Covid-19 pandemic, Salwan used his IERP funding to purchase technology which enabled him to offer his courses online. The course provides a supportive and friendly platform for singers of all abilities to learn and develop their singing technique.

Course participants have the opportunity to work with distinguished teachers and musicians from the industry and benefit from weekly performance opportunities including a performance showcase at the end of the course.

Musicians and teachers include: Robin Bowman (the former Head of Vocal Studies at Guildhall School of Music and Drama); Kyron Bourke (Northern Irish jazz musician, actor and songwriter); Sara Dylan (Northern Irish actress in HBO’s Game of Thrones and BBC’s The Fall); and Northern Irish Opera Singer, Glenn Tweedie.

Joanne Wright, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, said: “This programme (IERP) offers much-needed financial support and employment to individuals working within the wider Creative Economy, at a time when essential elements of the arts sector have been decimated due to the Covid-19 pandemic.”

For more information on the course, which runs until April 26, visit https://www.onlinesingingcourse.org/singfromyoursoul

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