Nicola is a musical director and vocal coach who works with amateurs and professionals from 3 to 95.
She is particularly interested in the arts and health and specialises in mental health inclusive choirs and long term health conditions such as Long Covid and Parkinson’s.
A choir to promote mental wellbeing through singing.
mindandsoulchoir.org
Cohere Arts is a community interest company providing opportunities for communities to engage with arts, culture and heritage. Nicola is currently programme director of Creative Space for people living with long-term health conditions. Nicola has recently been MD for HerStory, an opera film with people living with Parkinson's that was premiered at Britten Pears Arts and featured at the World Parkinson's Congress, 2023.
coherearts.org
Running national training days in online in the UK and US as well London, Folkestone and Britten Pears Arts; MD for four singing groups for people with Parkinson’s in Bromley, King’s College Hospital; Trinity Laban and online. At Trinity Laban, Nicola trains and mentors students in arts and health practise. trinitylaban.ac.uk
singtobeat.co.uk
Digital Singing Solutions for people living with Parkinson's. Nicola is currently creating a singing app for people living with Parkinson's.
medising.co.uk
A mentor for regional and national festivals for young people aged 21 and below.
mfy.org.uk
An award winning breathing and wellbeing programme for people recovering from the effects of COVID-19
eno.org/breathe/
Coming in 2024 - a new online resource for anyone leading singing in a choir, school or other setting, containing tools and techniques to promote positive wellbeing, and to support everyone's mental health.
togetherproductions.co.uk/singing-for-our-minds
Our Street is an opera devised as part of Lewisham Borough of Culture 2022. It is to be performed in July 2024 in Catford.
musicandtheatreforall.org/portfolio/lewishams-creative-chorus/
Creative Health and Social Prescribing Training in collaboration with Dulwich Picture Gallery.
performingmedicine.com
Mini operas for young children. Five ten minute operas.
snappyoperas.co.uk
No Sound Ever Dies -An opera based on the stories of the racing track Brooklands written for children and adults aged 8-80.
Freedom Game - An opera based on the story of the Magna Carta performed at the Albert Hall.
Photo credit: Emma Brown
Using opera as a tool with people who have been affected by homelessness.
streetwiseopera.org
A project taking opera to costal regions including Thanet in Kent
garsingtonopera.org
During the centenary year of Britten, a community project based on Albert Herring.
brittenpearsarts.org
An outreach project using opera in unprivileged areas of Brighton.
glyndebourne.com
A recruitment project, for a young persons choir celebrating the London Olympics 2012.
youth music.org
A social prescribed singing project to support those who might have experienced social isolation or have anxiety and mental health challenges,
dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/learning/health-wellbeing/dulwich-picture-gallery-plus/