WHO IS VIX BOURNE?
A renowned vocal coach, performer, composer and musician. Committed to helping people be the best performer they can be.
Her own eclectic singing experience brings a depth of experience to her vocal course having performed music including folk, pop, rock, flamenco, classical, experimental electronic.
VOCAL COACH
She has created this brand new Vix Bourne Vocal Course based on her years of experience successfully helping students of all levels develop and succeed in their singing.
Over the last 25 years she has led vocal classes and one-2-one sessions in theatres, universities, music shops, schools in community based workshops and privately.
Masters Degree in Music University of Bristol
Associate of Trinity College London (Distinction)
Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice Kings College London.
She has studied with leading contemporary sopranos Rosemary Hardy, Jo Morton and Sarah Walker as well studying with the jazz singer Carol Grimes in London.
PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN
Hangover Square
‘A truly collaborative folk-rock project by two isolated people thinking way bigger than their one-bedroom basement flat, sounding at times like a 40 piece ensemble. ‘Painting with an Open Heart’ is an expansive, lushly arranged mini-epic giving voice to the ghosts of a life lost’.
‘Painting With An Open Heart is like a balm for the soul. Bourne shows what an excellent singer she is’ Zero Magazine
‘Victoria’s voice has a classical purity and laser clarity creating poetic structures that have only to be felt to be understood’ RnR Magazine
Victoria Bourne and Walt Shaw
‘Achingly beautiful harmonies’ The Wire Magazine
‘So wonderful to hear the beautiful boiling percussion and this very folk melody moved, twisted and distorted into this landscape of trees meadows and hill’ Corey Mwamba BBC Radio Three
Solo work
‘Bourne’s vocal is stunning, she makes you really understand how the voice can be used as an instrument’ Buxton Fringe Festival
‘Bourne’s vocals weave melodies that are reminiscent of Robert Plant’s own melodies‘ Bluesblast Magazine
Radio
Vix has featured on recordings aired on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio Leicester and BBC Radio Bristol.
performance
Vix has performed all over the UK and Europe including: 100 Club, The Union Chapel, Riverside Studios, The Jazz Cafe, The Blues Kitchen. The Birmingham Rep Theatre, The Crescent Theatre, The MAC, The Y Theatre. Bristol Old Vic, The Arnolfini, Colston Hall, The Cube, The Square Club and The Victoria Rooms.
She has also performed at many festivals including: Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Tete a Tete Opera Festival, Buxton Fringe Festival, Tenby Blues Festival, Great British Rhythm and Blues Festival, Outcider, Incider, Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival and Strawberry Fields Festival.
find your voice
Online Vocal Course by Vix Bourne
Introduction Price £79 with code SO2022 (Normally £89)
