Louise Gibbs

Besides teaching jazz and popular singing at the University of Sheffield, Louise Gibbs teaches vocal students for the Universities of Leeds, Chester, and York, and is a specialist external examiner for the Popular Music programme at the Royal Northern College of Music. She has taught or given workshops (on singing, improvisation, musicianship, and pedagogy) at major conservatoires and many university music departments in the UK. Before returning to freelance vocal teaching she was Course Leader for the Postgraduate and the Jazz Programmes at Leeds College of Music (now Leeds Conservatoire). 

Louise has active research interests in voice, vocal pedagogy, improvisation and musical aesthetics, and is a past President of the multidisciplinary British Voice Association (2021-22). She continues to perform and compose. Described in Jazzwise as “meeting all musical challenges with creativity and charisma” Louise Gibbs has recorded with top UK and US artists and has five acclaimed albums as leader. Her performance of her self-penned song suite, Seven Deadly Sings for voice and septet earned a 4-star Jazzwise review: “Both in its conception and execution, …is an unqualified triumph.” www.louisegibbs.co.uk