Charlie-Jade Jones

Charlie-Jade Jones is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Performance Science, Royal College of Music. Supported by an RCM Doctoral Scholarship and supervised by Professor Aaron Williamon and Dr Anna Detari, her research investigates health literacy within conservatoire-based actor, actor-musician and musical theatre training from student, staff and clinical perspectives.

Having graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with a Postgraduate Diploma in Musical Theatre in 2015, Charlie-Jade’s early career was dedicated to professional performance. Her debut in Anything Goes: A 50th Anniversary Celebration of Cole Porter at Cadogan Hall, was followed by highlights including No For An Answer at the Arcola Theatre, Oklahoma! at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Love Story at Cadogan Hall and Parade at Frogmore Papermill. Additionally, she has sung for recordings at venues including Abbey Road Studios, for outreach projects with Opera Holland Park, for orchestral concerts, and solo recitals, featured on BBC Radio 2.

Charlie-Jade also maintains a successful teaching career. She holds a Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music in Singing Teaching, is the Associate Tutor of Singing at LAMDA, and teaches on the BA Musical Theatre programme at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Previously, she held teaching positions at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and Laine Theatre Arts. She adopts a person-centred approach to her teaching and continues her professional development collaborating with specialist clinicians.

Her experiences as a student, singer and teacher, alongside an interest in singers’ health and psychosocial perspectives on the voice, inspired her to attend the RCM’s MSc in Performance Science course - from which she graduated with Distinction. The findings from her MSc research - which centred around experiences and perceptions of health in musical theatre training, encouraged her to set up The Practice by Charlie-Jade, an educational space supporting the health of professional voice users, and to pursue doctoral research in the area of performers’ health.

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