Questions?

Great question! Group workshop sessions start from £35-£100 when we are running them. Private coaching with Mark is available from £170* per session.

* – The full and current price list is right here. Please do read this page through as it explains everything you need to know about why lessons with Mark will develop your voice faster than anywhere else.

This is all covered on our booking page, so please do check out our booking page to understand how this works.

Mark conducts his private voice coaching from his home studio on Nottingham Embankment, and also provides lessons to international clients online via Zoom/Skype. Naturally, absolutely all of the relevant details for either an in-person or online appointment are confirmed upon your lesson time being secured as yours.

The current teaching schedule can be found here, and these are also helpfully indicated during the booking process.

Great question! A first lesson will start with a quick diagnosis of what is going on in your voice.

From there, lessons with Mark will dive into exercises designed especially for you, which will directly deal with whatever is going on with your voice. You will then to get experience exactly how the application of this will improve how your voice performs in song.

For more detail on what lessons involve, check out this full explanation regarding lessons, and you can also read more about our vocal technique and what this involves right here.

The short answer is: yes! Mark has taught many people with profound deafness or life-long inability to sing in tune or to lock into specific pitches. With his expertise, in even just a few sessions they’ve been able to stabilise their voice and discover how to sing in tune and well.

Singing is fundamentally a mechanical problem, and we focus on training your body to do the mechanics of singing right. Good vocal function begets better pitching, and the cultivation of good tone, etc. Of course, it takes work to build this facility, and still more work to deploy that facility on well-chosen songs that flatter your voice, but it’s simply a question of time and training.

We have covered this topic in great detail in this article, which you can read for more information.

Excellent question! When someone asks, “how long does it take to learn to sing?”, this is actually several questions all packaged up into one. Here’s how we break them apart:

1) Point A – where is this singer presently at with their voice?
2) Point B – where is this singer looking to get to with their voice?
3) How quickly can we cover the distance between point A and point B?

All three of these questions need to be framed correctly to arrive at a more complete answer about learning to sing well. And we’ve covered this in more detail in this article, which you can read to get a fuller understanding of how long it will take for you.

Yes. Sessions can be enormously helpful at any age. We have had clients as young as 5 who have enjoyed working with Mark. Ultimately, it’s a question of the temperament of the child. The best thing to do is to book in for an initial consultation with Mark via our booking form, and see how your child finds that initial session. You can also have a chat with Mark about the best way forward after that session.

Not at all! Many of Mark’s best clients have found their voice in their later years 70/80+. It is never too late to start. If anything, the depth and power that older voices can acquire is something that youngsters can only wish for. If you are an older singer wondering if you can build a voice to be proud of, the answer is a resounding yes. Please do get in touch and book yourself in, and discover your voice for yourself.

The current terms can be found here, and these are also helpfully provided during the booking process.

Because of the extremely high demand on Mark’s time, it is extremely important that students only book times they are absolutely certain they can make.

Of course, from time to time it is understandable that things come up and the odd lesson may need to be rescheduled. Every effort is made to accommodate rescheduling needs, but any rescheduling must be done within the terms (items 3-5 explain the rescheduling process).

How it works
To reschedule, adequate notice must be given. Adequate notice needs to be at least 48 hours before the day on which the lesson is scheduled. If adequate notice is not given, the lesson will be forfeit.

IMPORTANT: Please note that if a rescheduling request is made outside of working hours (e.g. before or after working hours on a given working day, during the weekend, a non-working day, or while Mark is away, etc), such rescheduling requests will be treated as having been received on the next available working day that Mark is available.

Provided adequate notice is given, a selection of alternative lesson times will be provided. If neither the originally scheduled lesson time nor one of the alternative lesson times is confirmed as suitable within 2 days of the alternatives being provided, then the lesson will be forfeit.

Important Note
While every effort is made to accommodate students’ schedules and provide useable alternative times, because of the sheer demand for Mark’s time, the alternatives we can provide are based on what times are left unbooked/available at that time, and as such the provided alternatives non-negotiable.

Rescheduling alternatives are far more restricted than the initial booking options offered to every student, which are totally unrestricted, and as such it is strongly recommended and extremely important that students only book times they are sure they can attend.

We believe in delivering unrivalled quality in every single voice lesson. Over the years, we’ve noticed that the best results come from one hour, weekly lessons. That’s more than just a good guideline or strong recommendation, that’s the unwritten rule of developing of your voice – studying regularly for an appropriate period of time each session.

As such, all our standard lessons are one hour in duration, and we do not offer half hour lessons. The reason is simple – we believe that we get the best results in sessions of one hour duration.

Of course! A full explanation in Mark’s own words can be found at this bio page which gives you a full run-down of Mark’s background, and the story behind how he developed into the voice coach that he is today.

It’s natural to have questions and some confusion over what one needs to get into the voice over/voice acting industry. We have put together a full article explaining the basics of the industry, and the exact type of coaching you should be looking for.