About Julie Miles - Vocal Coach & Director

Julie’s most recent past, although completely unrelated to music, has played a major part in the success she has achieved as a Vocal Coach. She was very much a part of the corporate world at Sage Software, where she ran a highly successful sales department responsible for achieving multi million sales targets each year.

Effective people management played a major part in the success of the department, with Julie’s key strengths lying in the coaching, developing and motivating of her teams. Over the 10 years spent in the role, she undertook extensive training in a multitude of coaching models and techniques including Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).

In earlier years, Julie’s life was based around music and performing. Having played the flute from the age of 6, she left school to study Performing Arts at Newcastle College where her main focus was singing, dancing and acting. Although her versatile vocal style made her competent as a pop, musical theatre, jazz or blues singer, understanding the importance of a strong vocal foundation, she undertook 2 years classical training and successfully passed ABRSM Grade 6 in Classical Singing, Flute and also Grade 5 Theory of Music.

She went on to sing professionally for over 12 years, covering the UK and abroad as part of a wide range of acts - close harmony girl groups, as a solo performer, as the lead singer for several top North East bands, undertook a number of original music projects, as well as recording work for the International Guild of Songwriters and Composers.

The whole concept for Vocal Ovation started to develop in August 2009 when Julie’s husband booked her a surprise singing lesson with David Grant of “Pop Idol”, “Fame Academy” and “Carrie and David’s Pop Shop” fame to name but a few. Her initial session with him was a great success and not happy to settle for it being just a one off, she booked for the following month when she planned to talk to David about training to becoming a Vocal Coach herself.

No one was more surprised and delighted than Julie, when he actually beat her to it and suggested it first! Her lessons with him then took on a “coach the coach” model and she has been fortunate and dedicated enough to travel to London monthly to continue her training with David and also just recently with Carrie as well.

Rest assured you’ll be in safe hands. Julie’s talent and experience of singing along with her ability to effectively coach, develop and motivate and not forgetting the fact she trains with the UK’s best known vocal coaches, makes an extremely dynamic and powerful combination, providing all the ingredients for a highly competent vocal coach with an effective and unique approach to vocal coaching.