Jane lives and works in South Devon, performing, directing and teaching music. She has performed extensively in opera, oratorio, concerts and recitals and has film and theatre experience. She has a sweet toned and expressive voice ideally suited to early music, Mozart, and to operetta.
Jane is a fully qualified classroom teacher with enhanced DBS clearance. She has a private teaching practice at her home and offers lessons to all age groups. She is happy to prepare students for exams if desired, or just to help them find their voice and enjoy music.
Jane is available to run vocal workshops, songwriting workshops and music appreciation courses (including opera appreciation).
Jane's pupils have gone on directly to major conservatoires and theatre schools including Birmingham Conservatoire, the Hammond School and Mountview. She has also taught many younger students who have won prizes and awards - she has twice taught the most promising young singer at the Torbay and South West of England Music Festival (two different singers) and several of her young singers have won local talent competitions and taken parts in shows in Torbay. She also teaches flute to advanced level, and beginners on clarinet, saxophone and piano. Skype means that her students are now all over the world!
Jane directs Red Earth Opera, a project opera group which performs in Torbay and South Devon. She directs Cantilena (Broadclyst) and New Century Singers (Bovey Tracey). In summer 2022, she will act as musical director for Duchy Opera for their performances of "The Gondoliers".
She works in Torbay schools as a classroom, whole class instrumental, and peripatetic music teacher. She composes and arranges music for her performing groups, and has sold some of her arrangments through SMP Press. In 2019 she was a songwriting leader for the Sing Around the Bay project in Torbay schools.
Jane rarely enters music festivals as a performer, but won the Isobel Baillie Trophy at the Aldershot Festival (twice), and the Rosebowl at the Torbay and South West of England Festival in the only year she entered it (as well as many other trophies). She also won three trophies at the Devon Performing Arts Festival in 2020 on the last night before lockdown.
Jane is a fully qualified classroom teacher with enhanced DBS clearance. She has a private teaching practice at her home and offers lessons to all age groups. She is happy to prepare students for exams if desired, or just to help them find their voice and enjoy music.
Jane is available to run vocal workshops, songwriting workshops and music appreciation courses (including opera appreciation).
Jane's pupils have gone on directly to major conservatoires and theatre schools including Birmingham Conservatoire, the Hammond School and Mountview. She has also taught many younger students who have won prizes and awards - she has twice taught the most promising young singer at the Torbay and South West of England Music Festival (two different singers) and several of her young singers have won local talent competitions and taken parts in shows in Torbay. She also teaches flute to advanced level, and beginners on clarinet, saxophone and piano. Skype means that her students are now all over the world!
Jane directs Red Earth Opera, a project opera group which performs in Torbay and South Devon. She directs Cantilena (Broadclyst) and New Century Singers (Bovey Tracey). In summer 2022, she will act as musical director for Duchy Opera for their performances of "The Gondoliers".
She works in Torbay schools as a classroom, whole class instrumental, and peripatetic music teacher. She composes and arranges music for her performing groups, and has sold some of her arrangments through SMP Press. In 2019 she was a songwriting leader for the Sing Around the Bay project in Torbay schools.
Jane rarely enters music festivals as a performer, but won the Isobel Baillie Trophy at the Aldershot Festival (twice), and the Rosebowl at the Torbay and South West of England Festival in the only year she entered it (as well as many other trophies). She also won three trophies at the Devon Performing Arts Festival in 2020 on the last night before lockdown.
