Welcome to a new concept...

Music


Theatre


Workshop

Hi, this is Philip & Kate

We would like to welcome you to our blog, which we hope you will enjoy and get a lot from. We would like to impart to you, a heap of useful information and tips to help you to either have a long and successful career in 'showbiz' or gain more enjoyment from your singing acting or dancing as a hobby.

Whether you have already started and established a Pro or Ameteur carreer or you're still wondering what to do or you're just not quite there yet, there will be something that everyone will benefit from.

Q. Why would someone try and help people who they don't know?

The answer is simple, the entertainment industry is our passion and we love it.

I have been a singer, actor, dancer for over 40 years and it has allowed me to travel the world and perform. Including meeting and working with fascinating people such as Princess Di, Catherine Zeta Jones, Lisa McCune, Caroline O'Connor, Joan Collins, Author of translation for Chaucer's 'Canterbury tales' Professor Neville Coghill. I lived and worked in London for 14years which is where I met my lovely wife Kate.

Kate has been studying theatre and entertainment since she was a wee tacker. Kate's mum and dad were both performers as were mine and Kate used to help her mum and dad (later on) putting on shows around England and overseas. Kate also earned a degree from Bristol University in Music and Drama. This particular course is so difficult that only 2 persons were allocated positions. Kate then finished the final year of her degree at the London College of Music. Needless to say Kate passed with Honours.

So it is safe to say, you are in good hands. between us we have over 60years experience to offer you and it is all free. All too often advice is given in a very negative sense and can destroy a persons ablity to shine. Kate & I are all to aware of this fact, having been at the pointy end of the stick ourselves

I remember when I was in my twenties I was very keen on exploring the possibilities of doing opera. I was already well established in the Music Theatre genre in both Australia and London's West-End, but I wanted to explore further possibilities. Through a colleague, I was given the chance to audition for an excellent teacher of voice at the Guildhall in London, which is a huge establishment of music, drama and the arts.

I went along and did my lesson with this person. All the time they were smiling and looked as though they were enjoying my voice, BUT, at the end of it, all that person said to me was, "yes..well....it could do with a lot of work, it is a small voice and you would only ever be able to sing light opera at best... if that".

WOW! a punch right to the gut. From then on I thought to myself - I will never ever do opera.

A few years later, the colleague who suggested I should see her singing teacher told me that her teacher was impressed with my singing ability, that I had great potential and was wondering what had happened to me and why I had never gone back.
Now I ask you, how on earth could anyone take what was originally said to me to mean, 'yes you have great potential, come back and see me'. This is just one example of how much power these teachers have, over young impressionable people by what they say, especially if your knowledge of the subject is little.

I don't want to harp on about this, so I won't, but it should be stated that we will only give encouragement and advice that we are eligible to give and if we don't know the answer to your question we will either ask someone who does know - on your behalf OR we will not comment until we do know. Rest assured that we are here to help you become better at your craft.

Every holiday season here in Melbourne we put on special 5 day workshops covering a huge range of Singing, Acting, Dancing, script writing & multi media (video segments that are used within a show context). Recently, we held a workshop at the Box Hill Community Arts Centre for the first time at this venue with resounding success (pictures can be seen on the Box Hill Community Arts Centre site at : BHCAC

We received such comments as:

• "...how did you get my son to dance?"


• "...how did these kids learn so much in such a short time?".


• "...our son had a blast and he seems so confident"


• "...I learned a lot"


• "...they enjoyed every minute of it"

Please keep in touch and please, let us hear your concerns about your singing, your dancing or your acting.

Come back often and let's see this grow - spread it around to your friends and lets have a ball.

See you soon

Philip & Kate