When we first started offering singing lessons in London to city business people in 1999, we had absolutely no idea how much of a positive influence it was going to ultimately have on their working lives. Initially, I would travel down to the law firm Allen & Overy LLP near to St. Pauls once or twice a week to teach several of its employees ranging from Partners to support staff. The company suggested we use a large store room in the basement and provided us with a piano and keyboard, and so we were all set!

As you can imagine, employees working for a company such as A&O often work long hours
and so the opportunity to take a singing lesson at their place of work during the course of their busy working day was deemed to be an innovative and very welcome addition to the various extra carricular activities A&O were offering on site.

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Imagine the scenario! – Your guests are enjoying a lovely 3 course meal at your function, event or ceremony. Suddenly there is a commotion between two of the waiters and a rather embarrassing argument ensues!! One of the waiters announces that it is his last day working for the company before he must go back to Italy to work in the family business, and would dearly love to sing a little song to say ‘goodbye’ if it is ok with everyone in the room. Of course everyone is touched, and warmly applaud the idea! He starts singing – very badly for the first phrase then blows his cover with a beautiful rendition of the famous aria!! Yes, it's the Singing Waiters! As you can imagine, the guests go crazy at the end of it! 
Our Singing Waiters normally do a set of about 20 minutes in length and we often suggest ‘planting’ a guest soprano at one of the tables! This is a hugely popular and successful form of ‘surprise entertainment’ which works for literally any type of function.

Ever since we first started teaching music in offices, our approach has always been to make the lessons as fun, informative and practical as possible.
Teaching music in offices, whether it be an individual singing or instrumental lesson, or even a group ensemble session,  offers the time conscious lifestyles of today's busy city worker an opportunuity to relax and enjoy the many benefits that music making can bring to their working day.

The great 'Support' mystery in singing seems to have baffled both  the professional and amateur singer for ever! Pavarotti talked about a push out, going to the toilet feeling when singing, yet other great singers advocate a gentle 'pull in'. It seems to me that both are right depending on the singer. From my own personal experience, I like to thing of support more as a high level of excited energy, which seems to create the right environment in the body for the good support.