Biography
Job title: Senior Lecturer (Pop Vocals)
Course taught: BA (Hons) Music (Popular)
Instruments taught: Pop Vocals
Gina holds a First Class degree in Music from The University of Sheffield. Though she is classically trained, Gina has been a gigging pop/jazz singer since 2007 and decided to start flip her own singing and training on its head, focusing on technique for the contemporary voice under teacher Chris Johnson. As well as ensuring technically strong lessons from a holistic perspective, Gina encourages each student to discover the colours, tones and expression in their voices to communicate with audiences and develop a performance style. Gina holds a certificate in Estill Training levels 1 & 2, Vocal Health First Aid and Youth Mental Health First Aid. Gina is invested in her own professional development and is grateful to have learned from such leading experts such as Kim Chandler, Dane Chalfin, Jenovra Williams, Chris Johnson, Heidi Moss, Anne-Marie Speed, Stephen King, Dr Ingo Titze, Rachel Lynes and more leading pedagogy professionals.
Her time fronting the indie-pop band Screaming Maldini saw her touring the UK, France and even Japan where the band’s album reached No.2 in the album charts. As well as performing, Gina has been song-writing for over a decade and is still writing and gigging with her most recent project, Before Breakfast, whose debut LP I Could Be Asleep If it Weren't For You was released in January 2022.
Gina has also supported Justin Bieber at Sheffield Arena with NYC outfit ‘The Knocks”, recorded a live session in Abbey Road Studios, played for BBC Introducing in Hyde Park & Latitude Festival, had radio play on Radio 1, Radio 2, BBC 6Music and has recorded original music for BBC 2.
She leads pop choir ‘Neighbourhood Voices’ who have performed live on BBC6music, recorded and performed live with SELFESTEEM and Franz Von.
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It's important to me that singers have as many options in their toolkit to express themselves as fully and as meaningful as possible. I'm often saying 'Yeah you can do that, but can you do this?' to students! |
