Phillip Shades is a vocal coach and singing teacher with over twenty years’ experience and is on the faculty at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Bird Conservatoire among others throughout the UK.

He studied classical singing as an undergraduate and later musical theatre and singing teaching at the esteemed Royal Academy of Music under the instruction of west-end vocal coach Mary Hammond. As well as his classical background Phillip has achieved ‘EMT’ status in the Estill Voice model under the mentorship of Licensed Estill Voice Craft Practitioner (Vanguard) Anne-Marie Speed.

Phillip works closely with performers in the West End and leads a singing clinic for professional voice users where he specialises in vocal technique and vocal health. He is also regularly asked to deliver lectures on vocal care, vocal technique, functional anatomy, and the advantages of therapeutic techniques to teachers and students at many of the major training institutions across the country. Phillip is also a therapist having attained the UK’s highest-level qualification available in soft tissue therapy with the prestigious London School of Sports and Remedial Massage at Regents Park University and later specific training from Jacob Lieberman focusing on laryngeal manipulation. He can incorporate manual therapy with his teaching, drawing upon a wide range of therapeutic techniques.

Phillip regularly attends conferences and CPD courses nationally and internationally to keep up to date with the latest findings in voice science and therapeutic techniques.