ESTA
Postgraduate certificate – Vocal

Who teaches the course?

Head of Department – Vocal

Janet Munro

Janet Munro MA (Music Education) BA (Music Education) DRSAM (Singing Teacher) Fellow of the Higher Education Academy,  is a soprano and singing teacher who was educated at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now RCS), Royal Academy of Music , Middlesex University and the Institute of Education. After many years as a professional singer, Janet’s focus is  now on Music education, teaching singers of all ages and in a number of different genres as well as mentoring singing and instrumental teachers. Janet is a module and component leader at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance on the post-graduate course The  Teaching Musician and under-graduate and post-graduate courses in instrumental and vocal teaching. 

In addition Janet gives individual singing  lessons to Musical theatre students on the under-graduate BAMT  and at Junior Trinity. Students have gained places at all the UK conservatoire as well as wining major prizes and scholarships. She is also a  teaching mentor for the Association of Teachers of Singing on their Pathways Programme and has worked as a mentor for the CTABRSM.  

Janet has a number of  research interests including all aspects of vocal pedagogy. As part of the Musical Impact Project  she did a research study Investigating awareness and incidence of acid reflux among UK conservatoire student singers with Dr Patricia Holmes and  presented a paper on it at the International Symposium on Performance Science  in Reykjavik in 2017. She also presented a workshop Adapting Repertoire for Male Students during Voice Change  at the Pan-European Voice Conference in Copenhagen  in 2019.