Being a performing artist is not just about the artistry, the music or the text.
There are so many other areas to master including:
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preparing for optimal performance in auditions
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managing your practice schedule for multiple projects
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memorising effectively
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navigating the rehearsal process
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monitoring and pacing yourself under pressure
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dealing with dynamic personalities in rehearsals
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building a unique career that suits your talents
It’s only natural that performing artists can feel isolated, anxious and stressed.
You shouldn’t have to navigate all of this alone.
Gain clarity
Vivien Munday can help you gain clarity and perspective by creating a Personal Performance System: a framework of evidence-based tools and strategies that support you to prepare and perform optimally on stage, no matter what else is going on in your life.
Whether you’re starting your performing career or between contracts or navigating career decisions, Vivien can help you find clarity, gain perspective and reduce stress.
Develop your own Personal Performance System. Get excited about your career again and get back in control.
Personal Performance System
Vivien Munday’s Personal Performance System is based on a toolkit of evidence-based strategies from cognitive psychology and performance science disciplines. She is a teacher, researcher and PhD candidate in the Centre for Performance Science, and a career coach in the Creative Careers Centre at the Royal College of Music in London. The Royal College of Music is the Global No 1 institution for both Music and the Performing Arts in the 2024 QS World University Rankings.
Vivien is well versed in the latest research and theories of 'peak performance' and strategies for creating optimal performance outcomes. Through her own performance career as a classically trained singer and research with elite performing artists, Vivien has amassed a toolkit of practical strategies to navigate the complex world of performers – singers, instrumentalists, conductors, actors, dancers and other performing artists. Vivien will help you build your own Personal Performance System through one-on-one coaching or workshops.
Vivien Munday
Personal Performance System Coach
Vivien Munday (B.Mus.Performance: Sydney University; M.Mus. Performance, Canberra School of Music, ANU; M.Sc. in Performance Science, Royal College of Music) is a specialist coach, presenter and consultant in performance science. She is a PhD candidate in Performance Science and a teacher in the Centre for Performance Science at the Royal College of Music (RCM), London, ranked No 1 in the 2024 QS World University Rankings for Music and Performing Arts. She is also a coach in the Creative Careers Centre at the RCM, and she is accredited with the International Coaching Federation. Vivien uses the science of performance, her coaching skills and her practical experience as a professional opera singer in Australia and Europe, including a long association with the English National Opera, to support performing artists to maximise their potential and build careers they love.
Testimonials
I am a Mezzosoprano, currently living and working in London. Moving to such a big city, even though full of opportunities, can be scary and make you feel even smaller. I was going through a very hard time, I was depressed and not feeling at my best because of singing. there was no work coming up and I felt a total failure.
Then one day I saw an ad by Vivien on Audition Oracle for some mental coaching sessions for singers and decided to apply, hoping to be selected but absolutely not expecting the results that I managed to gain thanks to her help.
Vivien has totally changed my life, because she has radically changed the way I perceive myself as a singer: I used to be too demanding and rigid with myself. I totally had no self-esteem and of course this was influencing all the things I was doing on and off stage.
Her method is very effective because before each session she asks you what you would like to gain from it and then sets it up in order for you to work on your goals.
She uses some exercises that bring up things very easily and quickly and make you end each session satisfied and more conscious of yourself, where you are at and what you need to work on but telling you how.
She completely changed the confidence I had in my abilities, and brought it from zero to hero in just 4 sessions!
I will be eternally grateful to her and I highly recommend her to any singer who is struggling right now.
Don’t wait anymore…go to Vivien!
Arlene Miatto Albeldas (aka Arlene Belli)
UK National Opera Studio graduate
Work with Vivien and start building your own
Personal Performance System
Initial consultation
£70
Full time students £55
80 minute initial consultation with Vivien
Coaching package
£180
Full time students £150
Personal Performance System coaching package
One on one coaching package including 3 x one hour sessions with Vivien
Workshops
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Book Vivien to run a half-day workshop for a group
Choose from these workshops:
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Memorisation for singers
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Healthy practices for performance
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Audition preparation
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Designing a performing career you love
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Presentation skills for executives (popular with a leading UK Executive MBA training program)
Creating a Personal Performance System is easy
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Contact Vivien and set up a FREE 30 minute discovery call to find out what tailored approach will meet your needs.
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Choose a coaching package or workshop.
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