Voice and Emotion in Speech and Song!
Monday 19th January 2026, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (London Time)
Emotion is performance. Did you know that ancient Romans didn’t smile when they were happy, and that smiling was an invention of the Middle Ages? Broad, toothy-mouthed smiles, known as the Duchenne smile, became popular as recent as the eighteenth century as dentistry became more accessible and affordable (Feldman Barrett, 2017, p51). Emotion is an exchange between a performer and an audience, even when we are not on a stage.
Discover how we use our voices to communicate emotion, both through verbal content and nonverbal vocal cues like tone of voice, volume, and prosody.
While there has been a significant amount of research conducted into how speakers use emotion in the voice and how listeners perceive it, how this relates to performance is a relatively new field of research (even if we have been talking about it as practitioners for centuries!).
Join us for an exploratory session where we reflect on how speakers and singers encode their voices with emotion to communicate expressively. We'll delve into how emotion occurs in social contexts in the ‘real world’ and address emotional performance in both spoken and sung voice
🏷️ Price £30 (UK VAT inclusive)
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📜 Certificate of attendance available
Louisa Morgan
Louisa Morgan is a lecturer, voice teacher and researcher, with a special focus on spoken and sung emotion. Louisa lectures with Voice Study Centre (spoken voice lead). Previously, Louisa taught technical singing for the MA/MFA Musical Theatre students at the Guilford School of Acting (GSA) and Italia Conti, and she was also a spoken and singing voice coach for the Acting students at the Cygnet Training Theatre.
Attend this course for as little as £22 as part of the Voice Professional Training CPD Award Scheme.
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