Vocal Coaching in Greater Manchester and Online Vocal Performance Coaching is more than just a singing lesson.
Vocal Performance Coaching takes the raw components of your voice, mindset, and confidence, and draws out all of your potential to develop healthy vocal technique, complete control, strong vocal awareness, bold self belief, and fearless performance delivery. Covering vocal technique, voice function, support, breathing, posture, projection, vocal placement, and vocal health, Vocal Performance Coach
ing will help you discover the fullness of your voice, and encourage you in a positive relationship with it as you explore the exceptional instrument you have. Each session is uniquely tailored to your vocal needs and personal ambitions. Whether you are a songwriter wanting to workshop new material, a recording artist on a deadline for your latest album, a gigging musician needing vocal stamina for a tour, preparing for an X factor audition, an open mic lover, a karaoke legend, or a first timer, be assured the studio has worked with all of these performers and more, and it would be great to work with you too! Hannah Smikle is a professional vocalist and voice coach, and has worked for over 10 years in the music industry. She has extensive experience both in live performance as a gigging musician and backing vocalist, and in the studio as a session singer and recording artist. Hannah has a wealth of experience as a vocal coach; bringing her technical knowledge together with her work as a professional vocalist and performer, she has developed masterclasses for vocal groups, delivered classroom teaching at BTEC level, and currently works with clients privately from her home studio. Hannah is a member of The Musician's Union, has a DBS Certificate and Public Liability Insurance. Unlock the potential of your voice; you already have all you need within you.
19/12/2025
One of my favourite Christmas performances!
🎤 Singing O Holy Night in 4 part harmony with friends, was such a lovely way to end our VPC Christmas concert a few years back!
🙌🏻 This will always be a treasured memory- there’s something so wonderful about singing together in harmony, it really is great for the soul!
🎄I hope you have lots of good-for-the-soul moments over this festive period, and you’re able to take some time to rest and recharge ahead of the new year. See you in 2026!
17/12/2025
Such a beautiful song!
🎙️ Sing Out Sessions was blessed with a Coldplay double on the bill last week!
🙌 The VPC group coaching singers sounded so wonderful singing Fix You! It was a great song to explore vocal technique, performance delivery and harmony, I really enjoyed working on this with the group!
🎤 VPC group sessions are an opportunity to develop confidence, singing technique, vocal health awareness, and performance skills, all in a supportive community!
🙋🏼♀️If you’d like to learn more, or would like to get involved in the New Year, you’d be so welcome- drop me a comment below or DM!
16/12/2025
I just love Sing Out Sessions!
🎙️ Such a great evening hosting this wonderful, talented group of vocalists! We had the joy of soloists, duets and group performances, singing Pop, Musical Theatre and Christmas classics!
🙌🏻 Sing Out Sessions are my regular performance nights that I host as an opportunity for those part of the Vocal Performance Coaching community to showcase their skills, and grow in confidence in a supportive, encouraging environment!
✨ The night is always such a positive, empowering event, and I am constantly inspired by those who take part- through their voice, their performance and their courage!
💛 It’s what VPC is all about:
- Championing
- Celebrating
- Supporting
- Nurturing
- Building community
🙏🏻 A lovely way to celebrate the end of our year! Thank you to everyone who has taken part in 121, Group Coaching and Sing Out Sessions in 2025! Blessed to be part of such a fantastic community of singers, you are a joy to work with! Looking forward to 2026!
15/12/2025
This moment deserves a place on the grid!
🙌 After sharing a clip of this performance on my stories, it had such a fantastic response that I had to share it all!
🎤 I asked to take part in my regular performance night, ‘Sing Out Sessions’, and to my surprise he asked me if I would sing a duet!
✨ We had about 30 minutes in his coaching session just a week before the event to create something, and I think it turned out pretty wonderful!
👏 It has been so great to work with Jack, and to sing together was a lovely way to round off the year! Not only is he an incredible talent, but his professionalism, musicianship and skill is exceptional. What an amazing year it has been for you ! You are a joy to coach!
12/12/2025
🎤 Final call for Christmas Gift Vouchers!
🎁 It’s that wonderful time of the year, so if you’re looking for a bespoke, creative gift, VPC has you covered!
🎙Choose from from 121 singing lessons to a block of group vocal coaching sessions, or even a recording studio experience!
✉️ VPC Gift Vouchers are personalised to your requirements and will be hand written and posted in time for Christmas- final orders Friday 12th December.
🗣️Thrilled to have received my certificate and course feedback today for my most recent qualification ‘Singing Informed Voice Rehabilitation’ with Vocal Health Education!
✅ This course assessed my ability to demonstrate knowledge and functional skills for restorative, developmental, compensatory and supportive goals of clients with voice and motor speech disorders using a clinical singing intervention.
👩🏼💻There were hours of both pre-recorded and live lectures to attend, weekly tests to assess our learning, and finally a ‘grand rounds’ case study style presentation!
📄I was delighted to have been awarded 97/100 marks for my presentation, detailing my singing informed rehabilitation plan for a Musical Theatre performer following surgery for vocal fold nodules.
💛 This course has already been so impactful to my work in supporting singers with their vocal health and rehabilitation, and I found it to be a fantastic learning opportunity and wonderful inspiration! Huge thanks to Vocal Health Education and to Dr. Charlene Santoni for the incredible content, rich resources, and amazing insight.
04/12/2025
🎄 Sing Out Sessions- Christmas Special!
🎤 Join us at next Thursday 11th December for a fantastic evening of feel-good festive music, performed by some of the wonderful VPC singers I have the joy of working with!
🎙️ You’ll be in for an entertainment treat- with an eclectic selection of songs, including a few Christmas tunes to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year, it’ll be a great night!
🥂 Grab your drinks from 8pm, music starts at 8.30pm - Shaw Road, Heaton Moor. Free entry!
03/12/2025
When work becomes play!
🎧 I opened a Logic session to edit a backing track for our Sing Out Session next week, as there was a long instrumental in the accompaniment.
✂️ As I was cutting the track, I felt inspired by the loop I was listening to, and instead of slicing it completely, I laid down some rough guide vocals as an idea to fill the first part of the instrumental!
▶️ Sometimes playing with your voice, and exploring with no pressure or judgement can be just the thing that inspires creativity!
🗣️ By taking a more playful approach to your voice, you invite curiosity and can open up possibilities, it can also help to relieve stress and boost those feel-good hormones! Why not try it today and give yourself a mid-week lift!
🎙️ Can you guess what song it might be…?
02/12/2025
🎤 Give the gift of singing this Christmas!
🎁 It’s that most wonderful time of year, so if you’re looking for a bespoke, creative gift, VPC has you covered!
🎙Choose from from 121 singing lessons, a block of Group Vocal Coaching sessions, or even a recording studio experience!
✉️ VPC Gift Vouchers are personalised to your requirements, hand written and posted in time for Christmas- final orders Friday 12th December.
🎙️ For singers and performers, the run up to Christmas (and New Year!) can be such a busy time. So why not give your voice a gift this winter- incorporate stretching in your daily routine!
🛠️ If your voice feels tired, is in recovery from illness, or you just want to give your voice some TLC today, then try adding stretches to your warm up!
🗣️There are so many benefits of stretching before singing, (see my summer stretching reel!) but here’s a few more reasons why just 5 minutes of stretching like I did here, will help to improve your voice:
⏸️ It helps you to slow down, reducing your stress levels and heart rate, giving you a moment to pause in your day, ahead of singing.
🧘♀️You can connect with your breath, mindfully and physically. It gives you an opportunity to feel your support system working with you, and as you slowly stretch, it has meditative qualities for your mind and body.
💪 Aids the release of muscular holding- by stretching our muscles in relation to singing, we give ourselves time to release physical tension than may impact on our singing.
🎤 We can see a reduction in vocal effort by including stretching in our prep before singing and performance.
🤔 Not sure where to start? Comment ‘STRETCH’ below and I’ll send you a stretch tutorial to help you get started!
28/11/2025
She’s back at Manchester Christmas Markets!
🎙️ My fabulous coaching client is performing at Manchester Christmas Markets again this year and has not one, but two performances TODAY!
💃🏼 If you can’t catch her in town later, you can sing and dance your heart out with her over the next few weekends- swipe for dates!
✨JoJo is an incredible performer and entertainer, and will bring that little bit of Christmas sparkle to your day!
27/11/2025
Loving these last Autumn days!
📚 I’ve been a bit quiet over here, but in my absence I’ve been studying away!
🍂 This Autumn I’ve undertaken the Singing-Informed Voice Rehabilitation training course with Dr. Charlene Santoni through . It has been an incredibly insightful and intense period of training, looking at vocal rehabilitation and the beneficial role that singing can play.
🗣️ I am really passionate about vocal health, and creating a safe space for people to explore their voice, providing holistic support and tailored vocal guidance. This course has been a fantastic opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of this work!
🙏🏻 I’m sure I’ll share more, but for now I’m grateful to have been a part of this cohort, and how much it has inspired me!
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