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Release date: June 2026  - TranscriptTrigger warning: this episode references sexual abuse  In this powerful episode, June shares the importance of falling back in love with our voices and how music can help us claim our power and find healing and forgiveness.  🌹 🎶 Rev Dr June Boyce-Tillman MBE, Educator and Composer, An innovative Educator, June read Music at Oxford University, and taught in primary and secondary schools in London. Her work and research introducing composition in the classroom has been used worldwide and she is Professor Emerita of Applied Music at The University of Winchester and an Extraordinary Professor at North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.  As a composer, June’s large-scale works for cathedrals involve professional musicians, community choirs, people with disabilities and school children. Her hymns and songs have been published in the collection A Rainbow to Heaven.  An advocate for women’s role in both spiritual and secular music, June has created one-woman shows based on the life and music of medieval abbess Hildegard of Bingen.  As a writer, she has published widely on topics around spirituality and edits the Music and Spirituality Series for Peter Lang, which includes her books Experiencing Music - Restoring the Spiritual; Music as Wellbeing, and her autobiography Freedom Song: Faith, Abuse, Music and Spirituality: A Lived Experience. She founded the International Music, Spirituality and Wellbeing network to share expertise and experience in this area.  An Anglican priest at All Saints Church, Tooting, June has pioneered interfaith dialogue through projects such as her Space for Peace event at Winchester Cathedral. She has two sons and a granddaughter, and now speeds around on a red mobility scooter – often too fast!  Website: http://www.impulse-music.co.uk/juneboyce-tillman/ YouTube: @juneboycetillman2893 Creative Voices for Peace: https://winchesterquakers.org.uk/voicesforpeace/ Music Spirituality and Wellbeing: https://mswinternational.org/

"Feel the nerves and enjoy them,” - singer and voice teacher Linor Oren shares how to master the inner critic and fall in love with singing.  Linor Oren is a singer and voice teacher who knows what it is to go from 'I can't sing' to singing in a hall full of strangers. As a shy kid who didn't take her first singing lesson until she was 21, she graduated from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and went on to study and perform in Germany. In 2017 she moved to the Netherlands, where she runs her voice studio and leads the Merry Poppins Musical Choir. Her teaching method blends vocal technique with bodywork and mental practice. Her forthcoming book, Sing Anyway, (due out May 2026) helps beginner singers find their voices and sing in front of others.   Website: https://singwell.eu YouTube:  @linororen

“Everything lives in the voice,” - Conscious Relationship Consultant Cindy Jarrett shares how we can bring voice to creating healthy relationships. Cindy Jarrett is a Conscious Relationship Consultant and founder of Designing Access Consulting. For the past 36 years she has taught Conscious Relationship Practices that foster emotional responsibility and bring emotional freedom to her clients. She is the author of Path of the Golden Heart: Conscious Dating in an Unconscious World. Cindy brings a fresh approach to the dating process that bypasses all the worry, games, and guessing about calling forth the appropriate partner for you.  The book prepares each person to choose wisely a partner for love and receive being loved. Cindy's 'why' is: ending relationship pain, because she feels every heart ought to experience the Heaven of Great Love while here on Earth. Website: www.HorseJourneys.comYouTube: @EmotionalCreativityTrainingEmail: [email protected]

Making a difference through music - vocal maestro Mike King shares how we can find our voices, tell our stories and create authentic, honest performances.  About Mike King  One of the UK’s leading vocal coaches & choir leaders, Mike's unique approach to sharing his passion for music has inspired and touched the hearts of thousands. He has worked on The Voice UK, arranged pieces for BBC Radio, Channel 4 and collaborated with international artists including Angelique Kidjo, Florence + the Machine, BoyGeorge & Lily Allen. He founded his vocal group, the Mike King Collective (MKC), his community choir MyCool Singers (MCS), the MyCool Music Foundation and a singing holidaycompany running singing vacations in Barbados, the UK, Spain and New York City.  Mike's Website: https://www.mycoolking.com/

🌹 🎶 Vocal Revolution Ep 24 - “Music is Equal to Unity” - Artur Dotsiak  Ukrainian musician, composer and educator Artur Dotsiak (Arthur Kingsford) shares how music can help you continue living your life, no matter what. A cultural ambassador, he shares how Ukrainian artists are using music to create unity and show that “we still have our own voice, we are alive.” Find out more about Artur Dotsiak: https://0darkdante.github.io/Arthur-Kingford/ Tune in to more podcast episodes at: https://www.therosewindow.org/podcast  Artur Dotsiak, otherwise known as Arthur Kingford is a Ukrainian musician, composer, and educator currently based in the UK. Working at the intersection of classical and modern sound, Artur composes original works and plays instruments including piano, harpsichord, classical accordion, Ukrainian pipe, tambourine, and frame drum. Artur was a top-20 finalist at the Trophée Mondial de l’Accordéon and recipient of the Ukrainian Presidential Scholarship for Excellence in Music. Committed to fostering the next generation of musicians, he has taught over 2500 private lessons and his academic research contributes to the preservation and development of cultural traditions.

Darren shares how music can help us come home to ourselves and tell our stories in a way that goes straight to the heart.  About Darren Darren Abrahams inhabits the spaces between art and transformation, weaving together the worlds of singing, healing, and social change. As a performer who has appeared on stages from Covent Garden to Glyndebourne, he discovered that music could be more than entertainment – it could be medicine. Now, as the co-founder of The Human Hive and One World Orchestra, he facilitates experiences that blur the lines between performance and healing. His work as a trauma therapist and creative leader reveals a discernible truth: that art, when wielded with purpose, can transform both individuals and communities. Fun Fact - Darren and Katie first met over 20 years ago on a crazy sound healing adventure in the Kent countryside. - https://darrenabrahams.com

Release Date: 1st December 2024  Transcript  In this episode, Chris Rowbury shares the magic that happens when you get a bunch of people in a room to sing in harmony together. Chris first discovered the joys of unaccompanied harmony singing when working as a theatre performer in Cardiff. The company devised their own shows and often included amazing songs from Eastern Europe and beyond. You can't sing harmony on your own, so Chris looked around for a group to join. There weren't any, so he set his own choir up and hasn't looked back since! www.chrisrowbury.com

Featuring Rufus the Dog and a Halloween apparition :) Release Date: 31st October 2024 - Read the Transcript For this episode, I'm joined by Cheltenham-based singer/songwriter D'Artagnan. D'Artagnan enjoyed a lot of success last season when his Christmas song Merry Christmas Darling achieved 80k streams on Spotify and was featured on ITV News and BBC Radio. D'Artagnan will be joining Katie Rose at the Winter Sparkle Concert on December 6th in Crystal Palace. In his spare time, D'Artagnan likes to go rollerblading with his Tibetan Terrier dog Rufus. Merry Christmas Darling has recently been remastered and the new version will be out at the end of November https://www.dartagnanmusic.com/  🌹 🎶 Book Your Winter Sparkle Tickets Here: https://www.therosewindow.org/events-contactRelease Date: 31st October 2024 - Read the Transcript For this episode, I'm joined by Cheltenham-based singer/songwriter D'Artagnan. D'Artagnan enjoyed a lot of success last season when his Christmas song Merry Christmas Darling achieved 80k streams on Spotify and was featured on ITV News and BBC Radio. D'Artagnan will be joining Katie Rose at the Winter Sparkle Concert on December 6th in Crystal Palace. In his spare time, D'Artagnan likes to go rollerblading with his Tibetan Terrier dog Rufus. Merry Christmas Darling has recently been remastered and the new version will be out at the end of November https://www.dartagnanmusic.com/  🌹 🎶 Book Your Winter Sparkle Tickets Here: https://www.therosewindow.org/events-contact

🌹 🎶 Vocal Revolution Ep 20 - Do The Thing!  Read the Transcript Vocal Revolution Podcast is back with a little introductory episode about the transformative power of Doing the Thing that we love and long to do - whether that's singing solo, giving a speech or writing a book, plus 3 strategies to help us actually get on and do the thing...  Coming Up: I'll be interviewing pioneering vocal revolutionaries who are doing their thing... watch this space :)

A Podcast Ramble on the many magical ways our voices can emerge, bud and blossom this Spring. Reflections on how our voices can emerge from trauma and help build a more empathic, creative world, drawing on the wisdom of Nelson Mandela and Psychiatrist Boris Cyrulnikon.

A little reminder and an invitation to romance our voices as the beautiful special things they are this February.   Poems featured in this episode include Homer's Invocation to the Muse in The Odyssey and Joyce Chen The Muse.   Music - Rose Chant & Red Red Rose, an arrangement of the traditional scots folk song - both by me The crows - by themselves!

🌹 🎶 Vocal Revolution Podcast Ep 19 - Freeing Your Voice with Michael Harper  🌹 🎶 "Be yourself child" - singer, vocal consultant and singing teacher Michael Harper reflects on how we can free our voices and take a stand for freedom in the face of oppression.  🌹 🎶 Michael Harper is a singer, vocal consultant and singing teacher. He has sung opera, oratorio, and new music in the US, Europe and in China, premiering new works in the UK, Venice, and Geneva. Michael was one of six vocal coaches on the recent Sky Arts series Anyone Can Sing. As a vocal consultant, he has given master classes, workshops and lectures for the Centre for Performance Research (Aberystwyth), the Asolo Song Festival and Institute for Song Interpretation (Italy), The National Foundation for Youth Music, Sing Up, The Sage Gateshead (Newcastle), Jackdaws Music Education Trust (Somerset), Guildhall School of Music and Drama, The Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), the National Opera Studio (London), the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester), various US universities including Westminster Choir College (Princeton) where he worked with the Grammy- nominate Williamson Voices, and the British Library, where he held an Edison Fellowship. He has curated recitals for the London Song Festival and for Steinway Hall on the songs of African American and Black British Composers, and directed a tribute to the Fisk Jubilee Singers as part of the Hull City of Culture 2016. He teaches singing at the Royal Northern School of Music in Manchester and has private studios in London, Bristol, and at the den Norske Opera in Oslo. He is trustee of the Saga Trust (Edison Fellowship, British Library) and a Patron for the National Opera Studio’s Diverse Voices programme. http://www.michael-harper.net/

🌹 🎶 Vocal Revolution Ep 18 - Finding Your Writer's Voice with Anna Sayburn LaneRelease Date: April 1st 2022 🌹 🎶 Keeping building on it and have faith - novelist, short story writer and journalist Anna Sayburn Lane reflects on the journey of finding a voice as a writer and shares tips to help build a writing practice.🌹 🎶 Anna Sayburn Lane is a novelist, short story writer and journalist. Her mystery thriller novels explore the rich literary landscapes of London and Kent.   Anna studied English and History at University, then began her career as a reporter on a South London newspaper, later moving into medical journalism.  She has published three novels which weave literary history into contemporary thrillers, featuring her literary sleuth Helen Oddfellow, a walking tour guide and academic, who lives in Deptford.   The first, Unlawful Things (2018), based around the death of Christopher Marlowe, was shortlisted for the Virago New Crime Writer Award and picked as a Crime in the Spotlight Choice by the Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival. Her second novel, The Peacock Room (2020), takes inspiration from the London poet and artist William Blake, while the third, The Crimson Thread (2021), returns to Christopher Marlowe and is set in Canterbury, the city of his birth.  In a case of life imitating art, Anna has now given a guided walk for the Deptford Literature Festival about literary figures in Deptford, and recently started teaching Creative Writing workshops.  Anna lives between South London and the Kent coast.  https://annasayburnlane.com/

🌹 🎶Vocal Revolution Ep 17 - The Embodied Voice with Randolph Matthews Release Date: March 4th 2022  🌹 🎶 The voice is the healing tool - composer, performance artist and voice facilitator Randolph Matthews shares a wealth of wisdom about how we can claim the joy, beauty and power of embodied vocal expression.  🌹 🎶 Randolph Matthews is a composer, performance artist and voice facilitator. His musical career spans over 2 decades and his expertise saunters through jazz, blues and contemporary dance. Randolph performs and creates work nationally and internationally with collaborations across interdisciplinary art forms. He has performed with artists such as Herbie Hancock, Grace Jones and graced Buckingham Palace for the Queen. Randolph studied voice at Goldsmiths College London in 2000 combining Alexander Technique and vocal mechanics. He has since run workshops in Europe and USA on voice and movement helping people connect with embodied sound, breath and song. Randolph has performed at Sadlers Wells with Boy Breaking Glass inspired by the poem by Gwendolyn Brooks and is currently composing and producing music for the National Youth Dance Company collaborating with international choreographer Alesandra Seutin. - https://www.randolphmatthews.co.uk/

🌹 🎶Vocal Revolution Episode 16 - Intimacy on Set with Ita O'Brien Release Date: Feb 11th 2022   🌹 🎶 Holding a safe space - pioneering Intimacy Coordinator, Ita O'Brien shares how we support safe, healthy expression around intimate content on TV, film and theatre and how this relates to issues around sexual expression in wider society.  Content/ Trigger Warning: this episode discusses sexuality, intimacy, abuse and issues around consent. If you feel you need support around your experience of these issues, there are people willing to help and listen. Please click here for a list of resources.  🌹 🎶 Ita O'Brien is the UK’s leading Intimacy Coordinator and founder of Intimacy on Set, her company set up in 2018, which provides services to TV, film, and theatre when dealing with intimacy, sexual content, and nudity. O’Brien pioneered the role of the Intimacy Coordinator and since 2014 has been developing best practice Intimacy on Set Guidelines, which have been widely adopted in the industry and championed by the TIME’S UP movement and others, advocating for safe, fair and dignified work for everyone. O’Brien has worked on numerous high profile productions including Normal People (BBC3/Hulu), Sex Education 1&2 (Netflix), Gangs of London (Sky Atlantic), The Great (Hulu), I May Destroy You (BBC/HBO), Brave New World (Peacock/Sky One), It's A Sin (Channel 4) and has been widely covered in the national and international media as the leading spokesperson in this space. - www.itaobrien.com    www.intimacyonset.com