Gillian Ramm All Voice

05/08/2026

25/07/2026

What a week.
St Andrews Vocal Pedagogy Intensive, done. ☑️

An incredible faculty of experts and a room full of curious, courageous and confident voice practitioners in their own right, all sharing knowledge and refreshing ideas. 💡

It has literally been the “holiday” I needed for a long, long time.

16/07/2026

So, this is going to be fun.

I’m beyond chuffed to announce that I’ll be playing the role of Cynthia in the forthcoming production of one of my favourite musicals, Dear Evan Hansen with Apollo Theatre Arts .

We’ve got the most amazing cast and production team, I can’t wait to dive in and switch hats from opera diva to musical theatre performer. Thank you Katy for believing in me!

Performances will be at the beautiful Brighton College Theatre next February, so keep your eyes peeled.

15/07/2026

It’s so important to me as a coach to continue to flex my singing muscles and engage with that side of me that longs to tell stories through singing.

I’m so grateful to Louisa Barry for snapping these pics of me in action yesterday singing the glorious Song to the Moon 🌙 from Dvorjak’s equally glorious opera Rusalka at the Collaborative Masterclass day with Vocal Health Education . Dr Jenevora Williams | Vocal Health & Pedagogy encouraged me to workshop the piece in a way that inevitably ended up with me on the floor and going large with the play and gestures. This helped me unlock so many more colours and options in my singing.

What I notice is that if I have to go back to standing in a fairly static position after doing things like this, the voice remembers and the acting and singing just feels more liberated. It is generally expected that one remains standing upright during a traditional opera audition, but doing this work helps you find your character and intention, even if you’ve never sung the entire role. In fact, this sort of work is ESPECIALLY important if you’ve not got the full context of a staged production in your memory. Ditto if you’re preparing a piece from a musical.

What sort of things do you do to get a new piece on its feet? Oh, and given I’m playing a water nymph/mermaid in this aria I am very much aware of the irony in that last sentence.

Watch this space for some fun performing 🎭 announcements to come from me very soon.

14/07/2026

A few glorious days were had with my team members at , culminating in a glorious masterclass in London with and . Insights, laughter, learning, reflection, connection, more laughter…

The best of days

11/07/2026

Meet Ismini of Ismini Studios .
Ismini is a regular singing client of mine at valentinevoicecare and we have so much fun in her lessons.

Ismini is a functional movement coach and Feldenkreis practitioner, so she brings such an explorative, curious and body-aware attitude into the space. In many ways, we learn from each other and have continuously fascinating conversations around how our bodies and brains find mental maps for things.

There is something so wonderful about the Feldenkreis modality that I’ve personally explored in my own body. I’d encourage any singer to explore it if you haven’t already.

Inspired by her singing lessons (which she takes for pleasure) Ismini has also started incorporating straws, windmills and gentle phonation into her movement and Pilates classes (even with non-singers) because the attention to an easy out breath is doing magical things for her clients. How’s that for cross-pollination of the best kind?

08/07/2026

the EU AI act is here 😳 and whilst some of it's genuinely good for artists... some of it's a free lunch for the scrapers

AI companies now have to publish a summary of what they trained on - INCLUDING copyrighted music. for the first time, there's a legal paper trail showing whose work built these models.

it doesn't matter where the company is based or where the scraping happened. if the model is on the EU market, the rules apply. so there's no hiding offshore. a massive win.

from this year, AI generated content has to be machine detectable by LAW. platforms like deezer and tidal are already tagging AI tracks and moving to pulling their royalties. and now the law makes that detection job much, much harder to dodge.

if you've formally reserved your rights, they need your permission to train on your music. and from december, AI tools that make intimate deepfakes of real people are banned outright. fines up to €35m or 7% of global turnover. (!!)

the big catch though... it's opt out, not opt in. so your music is fair game unless you actively say no, and nobody's agreed on how you actually do that. the main method works at the point of web crawling, which is a bit like locking the door AFTER the van's left?!

it's also not retroactive 🥲 so everything scraped before the law kicked in STAYS scraped. the composers' trade body called it exactly what it is: a free lunch for the AI companies that moved fast. ffs

and the training summaries don't have to name individual songs, just describe the datasets generally. commercially sensitive info can be withheld. so if you don't know your track was used, you basically can't do much about it. there's also no payment mechanism anywhere in the act. transparency, yes. but remuneration, no.

so it's progress but not protection. the law is slowly catching up, but right now the only vocals a producer can use with total legal certainty are ones licensed directly from a human.

and btw that's what i sell. and yes i am putting my link here because THIS IS SOCIAL MEDIA AND THIS IS KIND OF WHY I'M HERE OK thank you and godspeed

https://www.katemcgill.co.uk

02/07/2026

Thanks to Walt Fritz, PT/Foundations in Manual Therapy Seminars for sharing this. Nothing to do with voice but very relevant to us all in terms of how we consume short videos online and can all be seduced into making a decision based on very unsound “evidence”.

30/06/2026

It goes without saying that I have found this one challenging at times.

But what happens to our body, our nervous system, our entire way of being when we say: "This is good enough"; "I am enough"; "I'll just let this be what it is for today"?

We humans are sometimes a little too good at upgrading, at making things just that little bit better every time. This is of course, how great artists are created. But I can't help thinking there is sometimes magic to be had in surrendering to how things are and seeing what happens when the body stops striving.

And as a coach, sometimes the best thing I can say is, well, not very much at all.

Have you ever felt this? Where is the balance for you?

27/06/2026