MA Voice Pedagogy student Rosie Fortune to present at ISPS 2023
Saturday 29th July 2023
Voice Study Centre
It gives us great pleasure to announce that current MA Voice Pedagogy student Rosie Fortune has been chosen to present a paper at the biennial International Symposium on Performance Science (ISPS) 2023.
Rosie’s paper is titled Considering barriers to performance for adolescent female singers and potential solutions & support mechanisms and involves a focus group, semi-structured interviews and a concurrent literature review with the aim of uncovering the female viewpoint and shining a light on the experience of being a contemporary adolescent female singer.
Congratulations, Rosie!
Rosie Fortune
Rosie has been a CCM music and singing teacher for almost 20 years, working in the Further Education sector. She also works professionally as a vocalist with her band Dreamer...
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