Charlie-Jade Jones
Charlie-Jade Jones
Charlie-Jade graduated from the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in 2015 with a Postgraduate Diploma in Musical Theatre and Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music in Singing Teaching. She made her professional debut with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra at Cadogan Hall in Anything Goes: A 50th Anniversary Celebration of Cole Porter. Further performance highlights include the European Premiere of Blitzstein’s No For An Answer – part of the Grimeborn Opera Festival at the Arcola Theatre, the 80th Anniversary of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, the 10th Anniversary of Love Story at Cadogan Hall and Jason Robert Brown’s Parade at Frogmore Papermill. Additionally, she has sung for various recordings at venues including Abbey Road Studios, for outreach projects with Opera Holland Park and for solo recitals.
Biography
Since her time at RAM, Charlie-Jade has maintained both a steady performance career and a successful teaching career. She is currently the Associate Teacher of Singing at LAMDA, and teaches across the BA & MFA Professional Acting, MA Classical Acting and MA Musical Theatre programmes. She also teaches on the BA Musical Theatre programme at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and prior to these appointments taught on the BA Actor Musicianship programme at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and on the BA Musical Theatre programme at Laine Theatre Arts. She runs her private studio for professional voice users, The Practice by Charlie-Jade, teaching singing and supporting singers’ health. She adopts a person-centred approach to her teaching and continues her own professional development collaborating with specialist clinicians, including a voice specialist ENT, and observing them in clinic.
Her experiences as both a student, singer and teacher, alongside a keen interest in singers health and psychological perspectives on the voice inspired her to accept a place to study the MSc in Performance Science at the Royal College of Music from which she graduated with Distinction in 2023. Her MSc research investigated experiences and perceptions of health and wellbeing within a drama school context and the findings inspired her to pursue doctoral research. Supervised by Professor Aaron Williamon and Dr Anna Detari, Charlie-Jade’s PhD research will investigate health literacy in drama school students, staff, and graduates, before working with her own research findings, current literature, and clinical experts to develop a health intervention for this educational context.