Skills-Development:
Cottage Music Institute offers a range of workshops and professional learning programs.
VOCAL SKILLS for BUSINESS LEADERS:
Because how you say it decides whether they hear it.
Your ideas are only as strong as your ability to land them. In a boardroom, on a stage or on a call, the way you use your voice decides whether people listen or drift off.
Cottage Music Institute’s Vocal Skills workshops give business professional practical control over how they sound. We combine Feldenkrais-inspired movement with a structured approach to vocal warm-ups and voice production, so you speak with more clarity, presence and authority, and protect your voice across a long career.
Developed by Micheál McCarthy, drawing on many years of teaching at WAAPA (Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts), Total Theatre, and the Cottage Music Institute.
Two-hour workshops, run year-round at our Perth studio, at conferences, and on site at your workplace. Group sessions can include team building activities.
Designed for:
Getting your point across is more than knowing your stuff.
Book a workshop or arrange a session for your team:
info@cottagemusicinstitute.com
VOCAL HEALTH for TEACHERS:
Because your voice is your primary instrument.
Cottage Music Institute’s Vocal Health workshops offer an integrated approach to vocal care for classroom teachers, music teachers and ensemble directors. The workshops combine Feldenkrais-inspired movement with a carefully-structured approach to vocal warm-ups and gentle, movement-based singing.
Cottage Music Institute’s Vocal Skills workshops give business professional practical control over how they sound. We combine Feldenkrais-inspired movement with a structured approach to vocal warm-ups and voice production, so you speak with more clarity, presence and authority, and protect your voice across a long career.
Developed by Micheál McCarthy, drawing on many years of teaching at WAAPA (Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts), Total Theatre, and the Cottage Music Institute.
Two-hour workshops, run year-round at our Perth studio, at conferences, and on site at your school. Group sessions can include team building activities.
Designed for:
Awareness and quality technique helps prevent vocal injury.
Teacher’s comment after a workshop: “Wow, that was great. Can we do this every week?!!”
Book a workshop or arrange a session for your team:
info@cottagemusicinstitute.com
CUSTOM-DESIGNED MUSIC COURSES:
Our custom designed half-day and whole-day courses for teachers and performers cater for all levels of music training, from early-career teachers to experienced teachers seeking to extend their skills. We develop skills such as pitch, rhythm, harmony, singing, memory, literacy, creativity, improvisation, inner hearing development, part thinking, harmonic listening, aural perception, fundamentals of music theory, conducting, and performance preparation.
We look at ways of learning music in a fun, exciting and challenging way. We develop core musical skills using songs, rhymes, listening, and ensemble activities, and incorporate key aspects of Kodály, Orff, Dalcroze, traditional and Jazz/Contemporary teaching approaches. We also offer courses for parents of children that are learning an instrument.
Music courses are offered for:
Courses are designed based around participants’ areas of interest, and can be offered during or outside of school hours. Dates and times will be arranged by consultation with the participants. Courses are offered for schools and for teacher networks.
For more information, or to discuss course design and content:
info@cottagemusicinstitute.com
Short courses are also offered for International students, teachers, and business professionals.
© Micheál McCarthy 2026
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