Charlie-Jade Jones

Assistant Professor of Singing | Head of Singing

Charlie-Jade Jones is a singer, vocal pedagogue, and researcher whose work spans artistic practice, education, and performance science.

She trained at the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music, holding a Postgraduate Diploma in Musical Theatre, Licentiate in Singing Teaching and MSc in Performance Science. She is currently a Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Performance Science, a collaboration between the Royal College of Music and Imperial College London, supported by an RCM Doctoral Scholarship.

Her performance credits include the 80th Anniversary of Oklahoma! In Concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Anything Goes: A Celebration of Cole Porter with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra at Cadogan Hall, Friday Night is Music Night for BBC Radio 2, the European Premiere of Blitzstein’s No For An Answer at the Arcola Theatre, the 10th Anniversary of Love Story at Cadogan Hall, the Immersive Revival of Parade at Frogmore Paper Mill, and she has recording credits from Abbey Road and Angel Studios.

She has extensive teaching experience, having previously held positions at ArtsEd, Trinity Laban, Mountview, Laine Theatre Arts, GSA, and Emil Dale Academy. Alongside her role as Head of Singing at LAMDA, she is an External Assessor for Arts Educational Schools and an External Dissertation Supervisor for MPAA. Her students have gone on to perform in West End productions including The Phantom of the Opera, Wicked and Mamma Mia!, as well as on UK tours and in regional and international productions including The Choir of Man, Sister Act, Beetlejuice, Grease, Evita, and Ballad Lines.

Her doctoral research explores health experiences and health literacy within professional musical theatre. Her teaching is evidence-based, person-centred and performance-led, integrating vocal science, psychology, physiology, and artistry to develop healthy, expressive, and sustainable performers. She regularly engages in continuing professional development, collaborates with clinicians and undertakes observations within an NHS voice clinic. She is an Associate of the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of the Healthy Conservatoires Network.