ZAC BRADFORD

Jazz Singer, Voice Teacher, and Vocal Coach Director, New York Vocal Coaching AUSTRALIA

Over the past year, Zac has focused on self-guided professional development through his membership with PAVA (Pan American Vocology Association), attending their webinars and completing requirements to become a PAVA-recognized Vocologist. After a trip to Sweden to take Dr. Johan Sundberg’s course, Zac resumed online voice training with Dr. Brian Gill, Indiana University. In addition, he’s been working through the Oxford Handbook of Singing and Ingo Titze’s new book, Voice Is Free After SOVT, which he highly recommends to voice practitioners.

Zac is wrapping up a fourth year of teaching at Queensland Conservatorium and continues contributions to the Vocal Pedagogy Project (vocalpedagogy.com), which features one living and one historic pedagogue each month (New York Vocal Coaching). He writes regularly for vocalarticles.com—currently a year into a series on developing, maintaining, and optimizing a practice routine—and contributes opinions and insights on the YouTube show voicelessonsonline.com, New York Vocal Coaching channel. He’s also busy teaching and managing a private studio (australia.newyorkvocalcoaching.com), New York Vocal Coaching Australia.

Zac finished 2024 with a couple of gigs in November:

After a considerable break from gigging over the past couple of years, it was exciting to prepare for some longer sets (3–5 hours). Performances went well, which was encouraging after not being in the groove of consistent gigging! What was particularly rewarding was spending the months prior, learning new repertoire and applying many of the techniques I've learned and taught in recent years—in particular, building up stamina for longer performance durations, which was a key consideration given the break from regular gigging.

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