Biography

Jenevora Williams is a singing teacher based in Guildford, Surrey with a busy private practice for students and professional singers. She is Singing Consultant and teacher-in-residence for the National Youth Choir. Recently, Jenevora has taught singing at The Royal College of Music Junior Department, Guildford School of Acting Conservatoire and Surrey University. She has been the singing teacher for the choristers at St Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, as well as a consultant teacher for many other British cathedral foundations. In her specialist area of the teaching of young voices, she has given papers at international conferences and provides training for singing and voice teachers  throughout Britain and Northern Ireland. She has an extensive list of publications in this area.

She is a tutor on the Music teaching in professional practice course at Reading University, the MA/PGDip in Choral Education at Roehampton University, the MMus at Surrey University and on the Integrated Voice programme for Vocal Process.

After studying at Bristol University and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she had a ten-year performing career. This included singing frequently for Welsh National Opera with solo roles in Cosi Fan Tutte, The Magic Flute, Electra, Iphigenie and Idomeneo.

Recordings include The Housewife in Britten's Gloriana and Kate in Pirates of Penzance, both with Sir Charles Mackerras and Welsh National Opera as well as Suky Tawdry in the Beggar’s Opera for Hyperion.

Oratorio work included performances in all the major UK festivals and concert halls with leading orchestras such as the Bournemouth Sinfonietta. Recital performances were mainly with her husband, the guitarist Stephen Goss. They gave concerts worldwide including tours of Borneo, Holland and Italy as well as in the UK.

Jenevora was awarded a PhD from the Institute of Education, London University in 2010, for research into the vocal health and development of boy choristers. She won the 2010 Van Lawrence prize, awarded by the British Voice Association, for her contribution to voice research.

photo: Gerald Place