Ron Morris Author

Professor Janice L. Chapman, AUA, FGS, OAM, is a singing teacher of world renown. Born and educated in australia, she won a number of major competitions and scholarships to study in London at the Royal college of Music. She won the coveted Kathleen Ferrier competition in London and went on to sing lyrico-spinto roles for all the major opera companies in the United Kingdom and in europe. Professor chapman appeared in broadcasts for the BBc and sang concerts and recitals worldwide. her career as a singer spanned 35 years and overlapped with a 40-year research and teaching career, which includes major presentations at international conferences. For many years she taught at the Royal academy of Music and is currently Professor of Voice at the guildhall School of Music and drama. in private practice she works with many of the world's leading opera, concert, and recording artists. She is a Fellow of the guildhall School, the British Voice association, and was awarded the medal of the Order of australia "for service to music as an operatic singer and teacher of voice, and as a contributor to research into human sound production and vocal health." ***** Ron Morris, BSpThy (Hons), MMusStud (Voice), MSPAA, MASA (CC), PhD, is a senior lecturer in vocal pedagogy and vocal health at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music Griffith University in australia. he has trained as a speech therapist and audiologist as well as a classical singer. he is in demand for lecturing and teaching in australia and the United Kingdom. dr. Morris has also had a performance career, singing at St Stephen's and St John's cathedrals in Brisbane, as a member of the Opera Qld chorus and as a soloist in oratorio and opera. His PhD research evaluated the efficacy of accent Method Breathing in young and developing singers. he is a long time student of Janice chapman and has contributed to Singing and Teaching Singing since the first edition.