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Voice Study Centre Student To Present At ViP Conference

Thursday 11th February 2021

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.

Please click here for more information.

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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