Lynette Alcántara is available for vocal workshops, masterclasses, adjudication, audition preparation and singing lessons, both online and in-person.

Singing Teaching –  Lynette has a thriving singing teaching practice in Cambridge where she coaches

• choral scholars at Sidney Sussex Chapel Choir, Wolfson and Queens’ Colleges.
  
• singers on the Cambridge Choral Foundation Scheme
• recordings of her online Weekly Vocal Workout vocal technique class for beginner and improver singers, including from choral societies – monthly subscription of £32 p/mth
• private classical pupils – beginners to advanced

Lecturing

• Lynette taught the Vocal Health and Training  course on the MMus in Choral Studies course at the University of Cambridge & was Vocal Pathway Leader and Co-ordinator of the expanded vocal pathway of the MMus in Choral Studies.
• Occasional guest lecturer – Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne

Past teaching posts include

• Cambridge Choral Summer Course
• Director of the Song School, OLEM Catholic Church
• the boy choristers of the Choir of King’s College   
• the choristers of Norwich Cathedral
• Guest teacher National Youth Choir of Great Britain
• Queenswood School
• Australian Boys’ Choir, Melbourne Youth Choir, Young Voices of Melbourne

Pupil successes include

• ABRSM & Trinity exams to Diploma level
• Entry to music colleges at post-graduate level (RNCM, RAM, RCM, Manhattan School of Music)
• Oxbridge Choral Scholarships
• The Girl Winner 2015 BBC Radio 2 Young Choristers of the Year

Outreach, Workshops and Masterclasses

• As a member of the BBC Singers she regularly led singing workshops as part of the BBC’s education work. She has worked on the GoSing and Play it again initiatives, and the I’d Do Anything TV programme, and worked with inner London schools and youth choirs as well as BBC Proms Come and Sing workshops.
• Lynette has led vocal workshops for the The King’s Singers, Britten Sinfonia, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and Aldeburgh Music including conducting the Cambridgeshire Friday Afternoon Project at the Cambridge Music Festival which was streamed live to Cambridgeshire Primary Schools, and around the world via the Guardian website. For many years she was the vocal coach  for the Cambridge University Music Society Chorus.
• Lynette has given vocal masterclasses at the Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne and the Royal Irish Academy of Music and presented at the Australian National Choral Association Choralfest and International Society for Music Education conferences. Talks include for the StART Entrepreneur Project at the Royal Northern College of Music.
• Workshops for Sancton Wood School, King’s College School, SingUP, Cambridge Music Partnership, Hackney Children’s Choir, Berkshire Youth Choir, Exaudi Youth Choir, The Young Voices of Melbourne, Romsey Choral Society, Fairhaven Singers and Choir 2000

Choral Animateur / Conducting

• Lynette is Founder and Dir of Music of  KJV Community Children’s Choir a hundred or so voice children’s choir and music charity in Cambridge which she set up in 2008 following work with the SingUp national singing programme. KJV is a non-auditioned childrens’ choir which performs in Cambridgeshire venues including Ely Cathedral, King’s College Chapel and West Rd Concert Hall. It aims to offer accessible and inclusive music education.
• She is a Fellow and Director of Music at Wolfson College, Cambridge where her many duties include conducting a mixed college choir and chamber choir.
• From 2007 to 2010 Lynette worked as Choral Animateur for the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge funded by the national singing programme ‘SingUp’, and led workshops in twenty-five Cambridgeshire primary schools. She has also led teacher training sessions for SingUP.

Background

Lynette has been teaching since her student days where she was awarded a Bachelor of Music Education with Honours in Voice at the University of Melbourne, specializing in classroom singing, choral skills and the Kodály Method. In Australia she taught in several specialist music schools, and worked for The Australian Boys’ Choir, Melbourne Youth Choir. She was a founding staff member of The Young Voices of Melbourne.