Chris Koch

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Position: Lecturer in Voice
Study area: Performing Arts
Location: Camp St, Ballarat
Phone: 03 5122 6271
Email: c.koch@federation.edu.au

Qualifications

    Linklater Voice Teacher – Linklater Centre,  Massachusetts, USA, 2012

    International qualification which takes five years and is considered the equivalent of a Masters degree

    Masters in Dramaturgy – Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, 2021.

    Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Dramaturgy - University of Queensland, 1997

Teaching

Bachelor of Performing Arts

Teaching/Unit Coordinator:

  • CPPSV1001 Voice Studio 1
  • CPPSV1002 Voice Studio 2
  • CPPSV 2003 Voice Studio 3
  • CPPSV2004 Voice Studio 4

Unit Coordinator

  • CPPSV3005 Voice Studio 5
  • CPPSV3006 Voice Studio 6

Biography

    Chris is the Lecturer in Voice at Federation University’s Performing Arts conservatory program, and directs productions within the program. A Linklater method voice teacher since 2012, Chris has previously taught voice to students in the BFA Acting at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, and the Performing Arts program at Deakin University. Since qualifying she has also developed an extensive practice with business clients as a voice and performance coach. As Lead Consultant in Sydney for the Cornell Voice Advisory between 2016-2020, she delivered coaching to a range of law firms and financial institutions, and extensive training programs for the Bureau of Meteorology, and continues to deliver performance coaching for the Australian Bar Association’s trial advocacy courses. She has a Masters of Dramaturgy from the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.

Area of expertise

Voice training for actors

Classical actor training

Shakespearean/Early Modern English text

Heritage languages in actor training

Dramaturgy

Directing

Voice and Performance Training for Business

Research interests

The use of languages other than English in actor training, and in Australian theatre.

Student-centred classrooms and the learning requirements of neurodiverse students.

Associations

    Voice and Speech Trainers Association (International)

    Linklater Teachers Community

    Media Arts and Entertainment Alliance