Voice Study Centre Student To Present At ViP Conference
Thursday 11th February 2021
Voice Study Centre
Voice Workshop student, Kate Sheppeard, has been invited to present at ViP’s Virtual Voice Conference 2021.
Kate’s will deliver a 15-minute presentation entitled ‘Representation of Soprano Resonance Strategies: an argument for a feminist epistemology’.
The online conference will take place on the 12th-14th March 2021, with early bird tickets available now.
Katrina Sheppeard
Katrina Sheppeard is one of the UK’s most exciting up and coming dramatic sopranos. Since moving from Australia to London in 2008...
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