On Monday, December 8th, the Institute welcomes symphonic metal singer Floor Jansen to give an exclusive masterclass to Institute students; with a public masterclass being held the day before.

Floor is the singer for Finnish bands Nightwish and ReVamp. After graduating from one of the Institute’s International partner schools, Rockacademie in Tilburg, Netherlands, she continued studying music theatre and opera at the National Conservatory for two years. She has featured as a guest vocalist on many albums for artists such as Ayreon, Star One, Devin Townsend, and Mayan. She has also starred in live shows including Lowlands, Games in Concert, Christmas Metal Symphony, Epica, Doro and many more.

The session, for all singers, will focus on basic and advanced vocal techniques and song interpretation. It will cover techniques which are used to keep the voice healthy and strong as well as tools to make the story of a song come alive. Floor hopes to help the participants to learn more about themselves regardless of their experience and to help them to bring some new insights to their singing.

 

 

Floor has been teaching vocals since 2003 and has been running her masterclass entitled ‘Your Voice’ in the Netherlands, Sweden and Finland this year. The Institute is very pleased to offer Floor the chance to run a public masterclass on Sunday, December 7th, followed by an exclusive free event for Institute students the next evening.  

About her London classes, Floor commented; “I am exited to work with singers who would like to challenge themselves to find their sound, to cross boundaries while stepping out of their vocal comfort zone, to inspire and get inspired!”

The last few tickets for the public masterclass and further information about Floor Jansen are available at this location.

Nightwish recently have unveiled the first promo photo for their forthcoming new solo album, which can be viewed below. It features new drummer Kai Hahto (Wintersun) in place of Jukka Nevalainen, who sat out on the recording sessions and will not tour with the band due to health issues. Photo by Ville Akseli Juurikkala.

 

 

Nightwish recently filmed the first video for their upcoming new album. Floor Jansen remarked: "Oh yeah this will become something special!!! "

 

 

The yet-untitled creation will be the first Nightwish studio-record to feature Dutch vocalist Floor Jansen and is set for a release in spring 2015 via Nuclear Blast. Longtime drummer Jukka Nevalainen will sit out on the recording sessions due to health issues; Kai Hahto (Wintersun) will replace him.

Nightwish recently released their seventh album trailer. In this episode the band recaps the summer and recording main parts of the new album at their Nightwish summer camp. Check it out below:

Commented keyboard player and main songwriter Tuomas Holopainen: “We are actually ahead of our schedule. Incredibly, Floor has sung about two songs a day. Marco cut the final bass parts in 1.5 days and Emppu did the rhythm guitars in a week. I think it was because everything was so well-rehearsed this time. We’ve tried to work more like a band.”

Added vocalist Floor Jansen: “Tuomas challenged me, using everything I have to offer. High, low, soft, whatever, but definitely lower stuff and very soft and intimate things. Something that more by coincidence was something that I kind of missed doing. Something I haven’t explored much and Tuomas wrote parts where I have to use this completely, where I have to go into it entirely. I’m very happy with what came out there.”

Nightwish just recently revealed the famed evolutionary biologist and atheist writer/leader Richard Dawkins as a guest on their eighth studio album.

Nightwish continue to roll out live dates for 2015. For their complete itinerary visit Nightwish.com.