Paul Farrington
Vocal Coach
Internationally recognized as one of the foremost vocal coaches and trouble-shooters in his field, Paul Farrington is in demand worldwide. Paul has specialized for over 40 years in teaching and coaching solo voice led masterclasses, courses and workshops throughout Europe, Asia & Australasia.
Paul will return as Vocal Consultant to Opera Studio and Company Principals of The New National Theatre Tokyo in 2022. He continues his role as Principal vocal coach at Göteborgs Operan and coaches the Principal artists of both the Opera and Musical Theatre Companies, and during his 20-year association with the Operan has coached on every major production to open in the house.
Throughout the pandemic Paul continued to work online with singers from all over the world from his studio at home, and in July 2020 launched ‘Paul Farrington Voiceworks’ which is now going into its third edition of courses for singing teachers as well as online masterclasses for singers on four continents.
In 2020 and 2021 he also gave two very successful online Masterclasses for the Bernstein School of Musical Theatre. Together with his colleague Declan Costello he created and presented the workshop ‘The Voice in Lockdown’ designed to guide singers suffering from vocal problems as a result of stress, and offered strategies for both the physical and psychological impact of the pandemic.
In March 2014 Paul was appointed as Full Professor of Opera & Vocal Pedagogy at the Norwegian National Academy of the Arts in Oslo alongside coaching at the Norsk Opera. He has been Vocal Health & Technique Consultant at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden for over 20 years, and for 12 years with the New National Theatre Tokyo and is the vocal coach to some of the world’s foremost opera and concert performers. Paul has taught at the Royal Academy of Music, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and Royal Welsh Conservatoire and was visiting Professor of Singing at the Opera Academy of Stockholm for many years. He has been invited to lecture to the British Voice Association, and National Association of Laryngologists in the UK, and to a number of singing teachers associations in Europe, and was also invited on a number of occasions by world renowned voice scientist Johan Sundberg to present at Voice science events at Tekniska Högskolan Stockholm.
Paul was vocal coach and music consultant to the cast of several outstanding movies and TV productions including Quartet directed by Dustin Hoffman, the Oscar nominated The Theory of Everything and more recently he was the Opera coach and advisor for the Netflix blockbusters Bridgerton and The Crown season 3 and 4 as well as working on the SKY movie A Town called Malice.
He trained and studied with Jo Estill & is one of only 11 people in the world to be licensed as a ‘Vanguard’ by Jo herself, awarded in recognition as a pioneer presenter of Jo’s work.
Paul is also uniquely qualified as a Specialist Vocal Coach, having been for over 20 years Clinical Vocal Consultant at University Hospital Birmingham, and is currently associated with the foremost London Voice Clinic practice, specializing in developing and remediating professional voice users of all kinds. Paul studied Voice and Piano at the Birmingham School of Music and after graduating he sang for many years as a Recital and Oratorio soloist as well as being a member of Birmingham Opera touring the UK. He combined performing with working as both stage and musical director at Guildford School of Acting and Birmingham School of Acting.