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Photograph by Stuart Campbell Australia
ABOUT
PAT
For the past 25 years, Pat Wilson has been training aspiring and accomplished
singers across Australia. Now based in Sydney, she continues to combine
her wealth of performing experience with many years' experience as a vocal
technician and coach to an impressive roster of students from beginners
to music theatre stars.
A versatile singer and pianist in the realms of musical theatre and cabaret, Pat has performed in theatre, music theatre, cabaret, concert, piano bar and jazz settings. She has recorded three albums of her original satirical songs. She has worked as Music Supervisor and major composer for a children’s television show, broadcast original satirical material on a weekly basis for two years with the ABC, had two of her books published (one co-authored with Dr Jean Callaghan), composed a commissioned music theatre show, as well as much music for theatre productions of many kinds. She continues to work as a musical director in theatre.
Since 2001, Pat has been associated with the research and development of a new range of software products for singing teachers and their students, called Sing & See. She continues to do post-graduate research at the University of Sydney towards futher development of this technology, while holding demonstration sessions for singing teachers in Australia and New Zealand.
Pat holds a Master of Applied Science degree (interdisciplinary singing research), the Graduate Certificate in Singing Pedagogy (Distinction), a postgraduate specialist qualification from the University of Western Sydney, and piano credentials. In addition to her private vocal studio, Ms. Wilson also teaches singing in the acting faculties of tertiary drama training facilities, such as the University of Western Sydney and the Actors’ College of Theatre and Television. She is a conference keynote speaker and regular presenter of master classes on vocal technique and performance for professional music theatre.
She also belongs to the performing union, MEAA - Actors' Equity (http://www.alliance.org.au) and the Australian National Association of Teachers of Singing (ANATS)(http://www.anats.org.au) and is National Secretary of the interdisciplinary organisation, the Australian Voice Association (http://www.australianvoiceassociation.com.au).
In Joan Melton’s recent book, ‘Singing in Musical Theatre: The training of singers and actors’, Pat is one of sixteen international experts extensively interviewed for their views on the specialist topic of training performers for music theatre. Her interview is transcribed on pages 153-165 of this fascinating book. Joan Melton’s skill as an interviewer is such that you’ll get a pretty good idea of who Pat is and how she works from this one article.
Melton, Joan. (2007). Singing in musical theatre: The training of singers and actors. New York, Allworth Press.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Musical
Director of (and frequently performer in):
Lemon Delicious (2002): New Theatre, Newtown, Sydney
We Need a Little Christmas (2001): Independent Theatre, North Sydney
Only Heaven Knows (2001): Chapel Off Chapel, Melbourne
Oliver! (2000): Griffith Regional Theatre, NSW
Mikado (2000): BAPA/Begonia Festival, Ballaarat
Pirates of Penzance (1999): BAPA/Begonia Festival, Ballaarat
Song of the Day: Yours and Mine ( 1995): Tilbury, Wooloomooloo
All Night Café (1994): Valeria Campo, Parade Theatre, Sydney
Hansel and Grethel (1993): Therry, Adelaide
The Venetian Twins (1993): CPA, Adelaide
The Threepenny Opera (1992): CPA, Adelaide
Tears of Blood (1992): Bearly Together Co., Adelaide
Wind in the Willows (1991): FEIPP/Glenn Elston, Adelaide
Adders – A Very Venomous revue (1990): Sheridan, Adelaide
Jemmy Green in Australia (1988): Pentimento Co., Melbourne
Bound For South Australia (1986): Set Your Mind On Wishing (1987): New
Patch Theatre, Adelaide
Exits and Entrances (1986): Adelaide Festival
Footrot Flats (1985): Australian tour
I Love You Tooley (1985): ILTY Company
Gone With Hardy (1982): The Ballad of Billy Lane (1982): Beauty and the
Beast (1986): Stage Company, Adelaide
Pat and her partner – actor, director and acting
teacher Adrian Barnes
Photograph
by Stuart Campbell Australia
SELF-DEVISED
SHOWS
When We Are Old And Gay. (2008): Two-hander cabaret devised and performed with Adrian Barnes. All original material. Slide Bar, Sydney.
Not a Vicarage Tea Party (2001/2002): Two-hander devised and performed
with Adrian Barnes. All original material. Chapel Off Chapel, Melbourne;
Street Theatre, Canberra: St Laurence Arts Centre, Sydney.
The Incredible Shrinking Mortgage Show (1990): Two-hander devised and
performed with Adrian Barnes. All original material. Sheridan, Adelaide,
then Castlemaine Festival, then S.A. country centres tour then (1991)
at the Athanaeum, Melbourne Comedy Festival, then (1991) Edinburgh Festival.
Sod ‘em and Tomorrow (1989): Two-hander, devised and performed with
Adrian Barnes. All original material. Lion Theatre, Adelaide then The
Gershwin Room, Melbourne, then (1990) Edmund Wright House, Adelaide, during
Adelaide Festival
Been There, Sung That (1986): Devised and performed with Adrian Barnes
and Christopher Prank. Some original material. Adelaide Festival, 4-week
run at Tooley’s Restaurant
Pat Wilson: Words and Music (1982): One-woman show; all original material. Adelaide Festival, 4-week run at Sheridan Theatre
TELEVISION
Where You Find The Ladybird, children’s TV series. (Channel 10) Musical
Director, composer, songwriter, voice talent (1996)
RADIO
ABC Radio 5AN – regular state-wide weekly broadcast, ‘Newsic’
for two years; topical satirical songs
FILM
Small musical roles in Freedom and Playing Beatty Bow [both
S.A. Film Corp.]
THEATRE
RESTAURANT
Ascot Eve (1993) : Adelaide Casino: at the Hyatt
Al Capone’s Birthday Party (1987): Palladium, Adelaide
PIANO
BARS & RESTAURANTS
Solo pianist / vocalist in restaurants, piano bars and luxury hotels anywhere
between Adelaide, Amsterdam and Alice Springs
ALBUMS
Songs from Sod ‘em (1990); Terminal Buffet (1988): Unarmed Wombat
(1981)
All original material. The first two written and recorded by Pat Wilson,
and the last written and performed in association with Adrian Barnes
COMMISSIONED
COMPOSITIONS
[Writer Full Member, A.P.R.A.] All music theatre compositions
Music supervisor and composer for Channel 10 children’s TV show ‘Where
You Find The Ladybird’ (1996)
Hansel and Grethel (1993): Commissioned full-length musical. Book by Adrian
Barnes, music and lyrics by Pat Wilson. Therry Society, Royalty Theatre,
Adelaide
Tears of Blood (1992): Bearly Together Theatre Co.
The Bingo Boogie Cabaret Charade (1991): Jumbuck Theatre Co.
Adders – A Very Venomous Revue (1990): Sheridan Theatre
Set Your Mind On Wishing (1987): New Patch Theatre Co.
QUALIFICATIONS
Graduate Certificate in Singing Pedagogy [Distinction] (1998) – U.W.S.
Master of Applied Science (Communications Sciences and Disorders) [High Distinction] (2007) – University of Sydney.
TEACHING
Singing and voice workshops; master-classes; private singing students.
Has been on faculties of the Centre for the Performing Arts, Adelaide;
Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music (CASM), University of Adelaide;
Eora Centre for Aboriginal Studies (TAFE); Actors’ Centre Australia,
Sydney; University of Western Sydney, Melba Conservatorium, Melbourne.
Spent over two years as Co-ordinator of Voice for the Ballarat Academy
of Performing Arts (BAPA), University of Ballarat. Currently working with
Actors’ College of Theatre and Television and University of Western
Sydney.
BOOKS
& PUBLICATIONS
• The Singing Voice: An Owner’s Manual, published 1997
in Australia by Currency Press and in Britain by Nick Hern Books. Revised
ed. currently in second printing.
• How to Sing and See: Singing Pedagogy in the Digital Era,
by Jean Callaghan and Pat Wilson, published by Cantare Systems, 2004.
• Pat Wilson's Repetoire Quicklists: Music Theatre Songs for Children
and Young People, by Pat Wilson, 2004.
• Pat Wilson's Song WorkBook (2nd edition), by Pat Wilson, 2005.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Wilson, P.H., Lee, K., Callaghan, J., and Thorpe, C.W. (2008). Learning to sing in tune: Does real-time visual feedback help? Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, 2(1/2), Spring/Fall, 157-172.
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Wilson, P. (2004). The voice and its metaphors. Australian Voice, 10, 16-19. (Download article as PDF: Click here)
Wilson, P. (2004). On singing straws and water bottles: The physics of pressure. Australian Voice, 10, 16-19. (Download article as PDF: Click here)
Wilson, P. (2003). Sinful modern music: Science and the contemporary commercial singer. Australian Voice, 9, 12-16. (Download article as PDF: Click here)
REFEREED PAPERS IN PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Wilson, P.H., Lee, K., Callaghan, J., and Thorpe. C.W. (2007). Learning to sing in tune: Does real-time visual feedback help? In: K. Maimets-Volk, R. Parncutt, M. Marin & J. Ross (Eds.) Proceedings of the third Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM07). Tallinn, Estonia, 15-19 August 2007, http://www-gewi.uni-graz.at/cim07/
(Download PFD – Click here)
Callaghan,
J. Thorpe, W., van Doorn, J. & Wilson, P. (2003). 'Sing and See'.
In L.C.R. Yip, C.C. Leung & W.T. Lau (Eds), Curriculum Innovation
in Music, pp. 75-80. Hong Kong: Department of Creative Arts, The Hong
Kong Institute of Education.
ISBN 962-949-134-6.
REFEREED ABSTRACTS IN PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Wilson, P., Callaghan, J. and Thorpe, C.W. (2005). ‘The singer, the song, the voice and its visuals: Can real-time visual feedback help singing students? In Deliver the Voice. 7th Voice Symposium of Australia. Sydney: Australian Voice Association.
Wilson, P., Thorpe, C. W., and Callaghan, J. (2005). ‘Looking at singing: Does real-time visual feedback improve the way we learn to sing?’ In 2nd APSCOM Conference. Seoul, South Korea: Asia-Pacific Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music. (Download PDF)
Thorpe, W, Wilson, P, Crane, J, van Doorn, J, Callaghan, J. (2003). ‘Real-time visual feedback of voice acoustics for the training of singing skills’, presented at the 30th Australian Experimental Psychology Conference, April 24-27, Sydney.
Callaghan, J. & Wilson, P. (2002). ‘Sing and See’. In Voice: The Cutting Edge. 6th Voice Symposium of Australia. Adelaide: Australian Voice Association, 112-113.
Wilson, P. (2002). ‘Sinful modern music’. In Voice: The Cutting Edge. 6th Voice Symposium of Australia. Adelaide: Australian Voice Association.
UNPUBLISHED CONFERENCE PAPERS
Keynote speaker,
Teaching kids to sing: A SOUND future. NEWZATS 16th National Seminar
2004. New Zealand Association of Teachers of Singing,
Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Papers presented: Appropriate songs, appropriate lyrics and ‘lerve’
/ Disneyfication: Evaluating the Disney repertoire / How kids learn songs
/ How to stop a child from singing
Keynote speaker, The Spirit of Singing, NEWZATS 15th National Seminar, 2003. New Zealand Association of Teachers of Singing, Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand.
Papers presented: Auditioning for music theatre / Singing music theatre: How broad is Broadway? / Tools of the trade
Callaghan, J. & Wilson, P. (2002). ‘I see a voice’. In Diversity of Voice: National Conference of ANATS. Melbourne: Australian National Association of Teachers of Singing.