Anita Morrison

An Alumna of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and National Opera Studio, Anita’s performing career spanned opera, oratorio and lieder. She is particularly known for her teaching of trebles and taught the choristers of Westminster Cathedral for nearly 30 years (from 1990-2019). She was awarded an Honorary ARSCM in 2017 in recognition of her outstanding work in this area following the publication of her vocal health for choristers book ‘The Chorister and the Racing Car – A Guide to High Performance Singing’. She currently teaches the choristers at St. George’s Windsor Castle, St. John’s College Cambridge, London Oratory Schola Cantorum and Cardinal Vaughan Schola Cantorum. She also teaches the choral scholars of Selwyn College Cambridge, is a vocal coach to The London Symphony Chorus and has a busy private teaching practice.

Anita has been a guest tutor on Eton Choral Courses for more than 25 years (now The Rodolfus Choral Courses) and was on the visiting music staff at Eton College for 20 of those so has a great deal of experience working with changing voices. Anita was also a member of the vocal staff at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for several years but, in order to develop in other areas has now given up this position.

An intrinsic belief in the importance of good body use led Anita to train as a Feldenkrais Practitioner.  She teaches regular classes and workshops and has given Feldenkrais workshops for singers at the GSMD, Leeds College of Music and for Voice Workshop and the British Voice Association.

Anita graduated as a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practioner in August 2015 from the London 2 Training. The educational director was Elizabeth Beringer and it was organised by Scott Clark of Feldenkrais London. She a full member of the UK Feldenkrais Guild and follows their code of ethics. Anita is qualified to teach both the group work, ‘Awareness Through Movement’ (ATM) and the one to one ‘hands-on’ work ‘Functional Integration’ (FI).

Anita’s particular area of interest is in helping singers to reach their full potential and use their voices and bodies more efficiently. In additon, having been a French Horn player in her youth, she is very aware of the habitual patterns that emerge working in these asymmetrical situations which can lead to pain and is very interested in working with all musicians. As a movement educator Anita is more and more interested in helping anyone out of pain and also enabling high achieving movers to improve themselves further.