Veronica Veysey Campbell, director of the Aberystwyth ‘Musicfest’ Vocal Course, combines her work as a singing teacher at the Royal College of Music Junior Department with teaching choral scholars at Cambridge University and she is the singing teacher to the Choristers of St. Paul’s Cathedral. She also has a busy private studio in London where she teaches a variety of singers of all ages – including advanced students, young professional singers as well as amateurs and other singing teachers. She is a regular teacher and vocal coach for the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain.
Veronica enjoys wide success as a teacher. Throughout her career she has been particularly interested in the developing voice and is in demand for her masterclasses, vocal coaching and vocal consultancy.
Many of her students are achieving success, including appearances at Glyndebourne, Glyndebourne on Tour and English National Opera and performances at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, St. John’s Smith Square, the Barbican Concert Hall, and the Festival of Remembrance in the Royal Albert Hall. A former student won a 2009 Brit award and was nominated for a Mercury Prize.
Veronica studied at Trinity College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She won many prizes including the Kennedy Scott Singing Prize, was twice winner of the TCM French Song Competition and was awarded the Sidney de Vries Prize at the Guildhall. She was a finalist in the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship and was awarded the prestigious Worshshipful Company of Musicians’ Medal. She won scholarships to study at the “l’Académie Maurice Ravel” with Gérard Souzay and also at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies (now known as the Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme) at Snape. She was described by the legendary vocal coach Paul Hamburger, as “one of the finest young British sopranos”.
As a soloist she concentrated mostly on recitals and oratorio. These included appearances at Snape Maltings where she was the soprano soloist in Poulenc’s ‘Gloria’, Haydn’s ‘Nelson Mass’, Hopkins’ ‘Rosenkranzlieder’, and at the Wigmore Hall where the Daily Telegraph described her singing as “stylish and eloquent”, as well as performances
at Festivals and with choral societies throughout the country and on the Continent. Veronica was a featured artist on Anglia Television’s ‘Folio Arts Programme’. She has a particular love of French ‘mélodie’, often reflected in her choice of recital repertoire. She has also given many concerts with her husband, the clarinettist, David Campbell.
Veronica lectures for organisations such as the ‘Association of Teachers of Singing’, The British Voice Association/City Lit course ‘Fundamentals of the Singing Voice 2’ and for the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain Singing Teachers’ Day and has recently been a speaker at a conference for the Cathedral Organists’ Association. She is also a tutor for Benslow Music Trust, and she has recently served as a Director of the British Voice Association. Veronica is currently working on a book of songs for the Changing Male Voice to be published by Peters Edition.