Hannah-Rose (they/she) is passionate about empowering people to take part in and enjoy music, singing and their voices. She helps people make sounds they love and connect with others through music. They are committed to inclusive practice and base this on ongoing study and learning, community feedback, and their own lived experience.
Hannah-Rose is a community choir leader, singing teacher, gender affirming voice coach and trans voice alteration teacher. They are also a voice actor, song writer, musician, flute/accordion teacher, coach & mentor in their fields, and occasional LGBTQIA+ inclusion trainer. Hannah-Rose is also trained and experienced in yoga teaching, and has a 1st class BA in Music and Dance (Kingston University).
Hannah-Rose is a highly qualified trans voice coach and gender affirming voice coach, having trained to do this with Renée Yoxon after many years of formal and informal learning in this area. Hannah-Rose offers gender-affirming voice coaching online so it can be undertaken from any location.
Hannah-Rose leads choirs at which all voices are welcome, with the ethos that singing is a human birthright, something everyone can do. To support their practice, they are a member of both the Natural Voice network and SoundSense. See this blog post about their ethos that singing and music are human birthrights.
“Music is life itself.”
Louis Armstrong
RECENT singing groups led by hannah-rose include:
– LGBTQIA+ & Allies community choir, GLOW Choir Brighton (Facebook / Instagram), which Hannah-Rose co-founded and ran from 2015-2025 with a strong emphasis on inclusion for all voices under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella, and queer joy! GLOW has closed its official choir activities in December 2025, but you can see a 10 year highlight video on the GLOW choir page. Hannah-Rose hopes that the queer community connections & ripples from the decade GLOW choir spent together will continue for a very long time to come. https://getbrightonsinging.com/glow-choir/
– Resonance Choir, Sing For Trees! (Facebook / Instagram) was a singing project Hannah-Rose co-founded with the vision and support of artist Moyra Scott. All voices were welcome at these occasional sessions which supported tree planting organisation Forests Without Frontiers and sang songs to nourish the spirit from a range of singing traditions, old and new. Resonance ran monthly from Sept 2022 to Jan 2025, as well as occasional al fresco campfire sings in a beautiful woodland garden at Stanmer. Find out more, here: https://getbrightonsinging.com/resonance-choir-sing-for-trees/
– Companion Voices Brighton – this group practices together to bring the comfort of song to those nearing the end of life. It is part of a wider network of Companion Voices groups under a CIC founded by Judith Silver. After four/five years of meaningful experience co-leading this group with Judith, Hannah-Rose stepped down from this in April 2025 in order to focus their energy on GLOW choir, trans voice alteration work, life balance, and other work and projects. However Companion Voices Brighton and other groups are still running in many locations, if this work calls to you, you can look them up.
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.“
Pablo Picasso
other offerings
– Trans voice alteration and gender affirming voice coaching.
This is Hannah-Rose’s primary focus for 2026. Respectful, welcoming sessions where you can show up as you are, and be supported with practical ways to move towards your voice goals. You can expect: a highly trained, skilled and experienced, friendly queer who is a trans+ activist, respects your experience, wants to keep learning, has great tools to share, and wants to help you thrive.
Welcoming, encouraging singing lessons with a highly trained and experienced singing teacher with 20+ years teaching experience, who has been singing all their life in a wide range of contexts, and is passionate about supporting you to enjoy and develop your singing life in the ways that matter to you! Limited availability.
Hannah-Rose offers coaching and mentoring within their fields of experience and expertise (particularly around choir leading but not entirely limited to this) and has undertaken a qualification and some CPD to support this and to be able to bring different coaching styles and concepts to her other 1:1 offerings. Find out more at the link and get in touch to see if we would be a good fit. Limited availability.
Always wanted to learn one of these instruments? Have a lesson with Hannah-Rose! Limited availability. In order to give proper focus to gender affirming voice work and trans voice work in 2026, instrumental lessons are unlikely to be available in 2026.
training & qualifications 🎓
Hannah-Rose’s training & qualifications are wide ranging! Some of the most relevant to their current work include the below and many more! Some total favourite that have been the most impactful, are highlighted with emojis:
- ACAS Equality, Diversity and Inclusion 2025, Online Course. Score of 100%.
- ACAS Disability Discrimination and Reasonable Adjustments online course 2025, 100%
- Femininizing speech in trans women through twang and medialising techniques. Delivered by Britt Bøyesen on August 2025, Voice Study Centre.
- Courageous Allyship: Learn How to Build Inclusive Workplaces. Be a Leader who Supports Colleagues from Underrepresented Groups. With Dr Priya Nalkur, via Udemy. Successfully Completed 2025. 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️
- Empowered Singing: Gender-Affirming Singing Voice Training with Emerald Lessley, Voice Study Centre short course (2025) 🏳️⚧️ 🎶
- Supporting Neurodiversity Inclusion In the Workplace, with Alex Genadinik, Rob Wechsler and Sam Robinson via Udemy. Successfully completed 2025.
- Fostering Diversity & Inclusion in the workplace, Mitigating Unconscious Bias, and Advancing Global Cultural Competence, Expert Academy via Udemy. Completed 2025
- ACAS Codes Of Practice 2025, 71.4%
- ACAS Mental Health Awareness 2025, 71.4%
- Managing People ACAS course 2025 86%
- Religion or Belief in the Workplace ACAS course 2025 86%
- Recruitment and Induction ACAS course 2025 100%
- Managing Conflict ACAS 2025 71.4%
- Understanding Neurodiversity In The Workplace: Embrace And Manage Employees With ADHD And Autism To Excel. Course by Expert Academy & Lahcen Bouya. Successfully completed 2025 via Udemy.
- Employability Skills for Autistic Students and Graduates, 2025, via Udemy
- Breakthrough BSL: Learn the basics of BSL & hold meaningful conversations with deaf people in everyday situations: with Olly Richards & Emma. Successfully completed May 2025 via Udemy.
- Trans voice alteration & gender affirming voice coaching teacher training course with Renée Yoxon (2024) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️⚧️ 🔵🔴⚪️🔴🔵 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️⚧️ 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️ 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️
- Coaching & Mentoring Qualification with Steer Up CIC, (2024) 👩🏽🏫 🧑🏽🎓 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️
- Queering vocal pedagogy, affirming trans and genderqueer singers: with Dr William Sauerland (2024) 🟨⬜️🟪⬛️ 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️⚧️ 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️
- Neurodivergent & LGBTQIA+: The ‘Double Rainbow’; learning session hosted by Neurodiversity Celebration Week (2024) 🌈 🏳️🌈 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️
- Voice coaching for trans and gender diverse people with Gillie Stoneham (2023) 🟦🟥⬜️🟥🟦 🏳️⚧️ 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️
- Singing For Health Practitioner: An Evidence Based Perspective, Stephen Clift (2023) 🍏 🎶 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️
- Degendering Vocal Anatomy, Online Webinar by Renee Yoxon (2023) 🗣️ 🔬 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️
- Vocal health in children and young people with Olivia Sparkhall (2023) 🧒🏻 🗣️ 🍏 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️
- Online courses in vocal masculinisation and vocal feminisation with Renée Yoxon (self directed online learning) (2023) 🏳️⚧️ 🗣️ 🏳️⚧️ 🗣️
- An Exploration of Belting with Amanda Flynn (2023) 🗣️ 🎭
- Considering Vibrato Through the Lens of the Evolving Singing Voice: changes across the lifespan, Karen Brunssen, (2023) 🗣️ 〰️ 🕰️
- Structure, Tongue, Phonation – It’s a Full Body Sport! With Angelica Nair (2023) 😛 🗣️ ⚽
- Estill Voice Training Levels 1 & 2 (2015, 2020): course successfully completed twice (there’s so much to learn on this course, she decided to go back and do it again!) 🗣️ 🔬 📣 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️
- Talking about suicide: ten tools with Olly’s Future (2021) 🫱🏼🫲🏽
- Equality, Diversity & Inclusion training hosted by BHT Sussex (2021) 🌏
- Hannah-Rose was named on ‘Brighton Happy List 2017‘ for her work with GLOW choir, as one of Brighton’s ‘Happiness Champions’ improving wellbeing in the city. (2017) ♫ 🏆 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️
- 1st Class BA (Hons) in Music and Dance 2012 💃🏿 ♫ 🎓
- A range of yoga training and qualifications from (2010-2023): not detailed here as less relevant to current work: though informative & helpful to overall approach 🧘🏾
- Grade 8 Flute, distinction (2008) (working towards a Trinity flute diploma at present) 🪈 ♫
- Apprenticeship with Frankie Armstong (2007-2008) 🗣️ 🧑🏽🎓
- Natural Voice teacher training with Frankie Armstrong and Darien Pritchard (2007) 🗣️ 🧑🏽🎓 ♫♫♫♫♫ 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️
- Actor Musicianship training at Rose Bruford (2005-6) 🗣️ 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️
- A Levels in Music (A), Drama & Theatre Studies (A), English Literature (A) (2004) 🎓 🎭 ♫ 📚
- John Highland Memorial Award, Chichester Festival Youth Theatre, for work as Musical Director, Actor and Musician on ‘Caucasian Chalk Circle’, (2001) 🎭 ♫ 🏆
- Grade 5 Music Theory (1994) ♫ 📚 🎓
- Instrumental lessons and skillswaps (formal and informal) with a wide variety of brilliant flute, accordion and singing teachers over the years 🪈 ♫
- Choir singing and touring experience with choirs Village Harmony and Northen Harmony, from childhood through to young adulthood ♫ 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛️
- Early music experience including with Packpins madrigal group, church choirs, university choirs and informal music making opportunities ♫ ♫ ♫
- Improvisation experience including both musical and vocal improv and comedy/theatre improv 🎭 ♫
- Music making in a wide variety of contexts! Collaborative, facilitation, creating and performance based. ♫ ♫ ♫
- Experience of creating theatre, composing and musical direction for theatre in a variety of contexts as a teen and adult, both professional and amateur. 🎭 ♫
“If I cannot fly, let me sing”
Stephen Sondheim
other WORK
Hannah-Rose likes to keep a varied life and has been lucky enough to take their work into a variety of other contexts. See this link for more info:
https://getbrightonsinging.com/other-stuff/
PS
Hannah-Rose is a disabled, neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+ activist, who cares actively about inclusion and equal rights for all. They do their best to bring an intersectional lense to their offerings, inclusion and general practice. They also passionate about environmental issues and love escaping into nature when possible, and happy to have been able to plant some trees through their work. They are a big voice nerd and advocate for the power of the voice, and so happy to share what they’ve learnt with you. They look forward to meeting you should you decide to come to a session with them.
We have fallen into the place where everything is music - Rumi 