Picture by Mathilde Bellec
Composer & Vocal Arranger
I create singing projects that bring people together in a spirit of co-operation and cohesion. The consistent thread that runs through all of my work is humanitarianism. This ethos exists in everything that I compose and definitely inspires my curation and project management.
I am also commissioned to compose music as a top line writer for commercial record releases and provide vocal arrangements for other artists’ recordings.
Get to know me
Creative Consultant
I have an established and respectable history of working with music in various ways across many sectors. From my early beginnings as a music academy student, I am also a performer, teacher, lecturer, adjudicator, business woman, guest speaker and mentor. I have a wide understanding and passion for music education. I advocate diversity and inclusion in all of my work.
Clients
Royal Northern College of Music
Royal Academy Music
Brighton Institute of Modern Music (Manchester)
Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts
Achievements
Pioneer of the Nation award from Her Majesty the Queen in acknowledgement for her contribution to community choir development on Merseyside.
Business Woman of the Year for Arts and Culture from the Federation of Black Business Women Business Owners
Winner of TheFlorence Institute’s Liverpool Acts Award 2018
Winner of Liverpool City Region Culture and Creativity awards 2021 for her individvual response to Covid 19.
Winner of Association of Independent Musicians “Local Hero” awards for her virtual choir project, Love Sings
Picture by Viktoria Grigorjevaite (SaneSeven)
Picture by Viktoria Grigorjevaite (SaneSeven)
Vocal coach
I work mainly within the commercial pop industry where I create bespoke learning programmes based on my clients’ requirements. I work with emerging and established individuals, bands, vocal groups and choirs. My approach to vocal coaching goes way beyond just vocal technique. Through consultation and exploration with my clients and students I focus work on identity and artistic visioning. In addition, I create strategies that encourage career sustainability with confidence and clarity.
“Jennifer is very natural and lets you find your own voice because ultimately you are your own voice. I don’t think I had any confidence and then it turned up in abundance. Jennifer cares. You can’t ask for much more than that but she gives so much more” - Dave McCabe, The Zutons
Services offered
Vocal coaching and artistry
Choir director
I love everything about choirs: the cohesion, the harmonisation, the contribution of the smaller sections that make up the whole ensemble. I love the energy they create and transfer to audiences that evoke strong emotional responses. I believe this is very specific to the human voice. I don’t even have to understand the language being sung to feel the magic of the sound and spirit that collective voices create.
I have a passion for working with diverse communities to enable people to have their voices heard and I have been at the helm of many innovative and inspiring choir projects and collaborations of all demographics and sizes. I am committed to providing accessible music training and artistic development for all people and I am always looking for interesting and accessible ways to do this.
It's so beautiful! Heartwarming and emotional and I am so pleased I took part. You brought together so many people and have spread lots of sunshine and happiness! Thank you so much for your dedication and your passion for music and singing! - Jean, one of the 180 singers who participated in Love Sings
Achievements
Guinness World Record holder for the most people (1631) singing Love Me Do (The Beatles) in a round.
Services offered
Virtual choir creation
Singing workshops and masterclasses
Community choir leadership and development
Choir performance and presentation
Picture by Viktoria Grigorjevaite (SaneSeven)
Picture by Mathilde Bellec
Sense of Sound Singers
I manage an award-winning professional vocal ensemble that performs live, collaborates and releases dance music commercially. Based in Liverpool, we currently release records commercially with label, Duotone in the EDM and disco genres.
Highlights
2020 - Feature choir in the BBC One drama ‘Anthony’ about Anthony Walker by Jimmy McGovern
2015 – 2019 - Featured singers for annual Cream Classical concerts
2019 – Backing singers for Take That and Lulu at Anfield Football stadium
2017 – Opening act for Nile Rodgers and Chic at Liverpool Echo Arena
2015 – Rugby World Cup tournament at Etihad Football stadium
2013 – Choir of choice for Yoko Ono’s Meltdown festival at The Southbank Centre
2008 – BAFTA winning series (BBC) – Gareth Malone’s The Choir: Boys Don’t Sing
2008 – Last Choir Standing (BBC) – live finalists
2008 – Featured singers for Damon Albarn’s opera, Monkey Journey to the West (Manchester International Festival, Theatre du Châtelet, La Nuit de Fourvière)
Services offered
Traditional concerts
Entertainment for all major life celebrations, ceremonies and corporate events (conferences, weddings, funerals…)
Collaborations (albums, live, performance art, multimedia)