Kim Chandler (MMus BMusEd) is a renowned contemporary vocal coach & session singer. She runs a busy private studio in Marbella, Spain, where she coaches an elite clientele of stadium band singers, including BRIT award winners & GRAMMY nominees, artists from a range of genres, professional singers and vocal coaches online. Kim is the creator of the popular “Funky ‘n Fun” vocal exercise series used in many institutions, private studios and by touring artists & professional singers (www.funkynfun.com), and with her producer husband she co-runs an online recording studio – “Virtual Vocals” – one of the first in the world to do so (www.virtualvocals.com).
Kim has over three decades of high-end performing experience. Aside from her voice being heard on films, albums, shows and thousands of jingles worldwide, she has also been a backing vocalist for high-profile artists such as The Bee Gees, Natalie Cole, Michael McDonald, Bjork, Michael Bolton, Leo Sayer, Rick Astley and Susan Boyle, in addition to having performed at some of London’s most iconic locations such as the Royal Albert Hall, Downing Street, Wembley Arena & Stadium, the O2 Arena and Buckingham Palace. Kim was also the director of large corporate recording sessions at Abbey Road Studios for almost a decade (www.kimchandler.com).
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Kim Chandler’s ‘Beyond The Major Scale’ Workshop Was Fun And Informative!
Voice Study Centre
Thursday 15th October 2020On Tuesday, we hosted Kim Chandler’s highly anticipated workshop ‘Beyond The Major Scale: Engaging the ear and voice in vocal exercises’.
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Monday 20th October 2025
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
(London Time)
Pop Pedagogy
Kim Chandler
Some successful pop stars are celebrating career lengths of over sixty years, having been around since the 1950s when pop music emerged and diversified from jazz, so pop singing has been in existence sufficiently long now that, for teaching purposes, we can observe and analyse what type of approach serves it best.
Thursday 3rd July 2025
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
(London Time)
Vocal “Decathletes” – inside the hidden world of Session Singing!
Kim Chandler
What is a session singer? Officially it’s a freelance, short-term “singer for hire” brought in to be part of a live or recorded musical project. However, it’s more generally understood to be the “behind-the-scenes” singer who is regularly booked for paid recording work. The type of work (and pay) varies a lot. Session singing is a side of the music industry that is largely hidden from the public and isn’t easy to find out much about, even online. Join Kim Chandler as she unpicks this topic, based on 35 years of session singing!
Past Short Courses
Monday 17th February 2025
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
(London Time)
Pop Pedagogy
Kim Chandler
RESCHEDULED event from 27th January. As the ‘newest’ of the singing styles to be taught in music institutions and private studios, the pedagogy for teaching popular singing is still in its early stages relative to other styles of singing, particularly classical singing. However, pop pedagogy has been developing steadily since the year 2000 when the author was part of the team that developed and delivered one of the very first degrees in Popular Music in the UK.
Thursday 25th July 2024
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
(London Time)
“The Chandler Curriculum for Training Pop Singers” – a deeper dive
Kim Chandler
Adhering to the curriculum, key areas explored in this session will include posture, breathing & support, tone & registration, diction, rhythm, vibrato, pitch, harmony, range, agility, musicianship, interpretation, performance, amplification & technology and vocal health as they apply specifically to the CCM singer.
Thursday 28th October 2021
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
(London Time)
Beyond 4/4 Time
Kim Chandler
From analysing and singing through pop song excerpts across the eras, this interactive workshop will introduce music based on a range of other time signatures including odd meters, compound meters, cross rhythms etc.