Judith Briscall was born in Lancashire and gained a BA Honours degree in Music from Leeds University, where she studied singing with renowned Mezzo Soprano Jean Allister. A singer and actress of considerable experience, Judith has been teaching singers for twenty years.  She was a part-time Lecturer at Nelson and Colne College for eighteen years, and for the last twenty years has taught singing at Giggleswick School in North Yorkshire, where she still remains as a visiting teacher. During this period, numerous former students have developed successful professional careers in Opera, Musical Theatre and Rock Music (see Links), as well as in teaching.

In 2002 Judith began studying the Estill Voice Training System with experts at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and has not looked back since! A tremendously valuable teaching tool, Estill Voice Craft is used in many leading musical and theatrical educational establishments, and is equally as useful to actors as it is to singers. Judith believes in the necessity of keeping up to date with the latest research in voice use, and in sharing information with others - this is why she is a member of the British Voice Association, the Association of Teachers of Singing and the Incorporated Society of Musicians.

As a singer Judith regularly appears in concerts and oratorios throughout the Northwest region, and has performed Musical Theatre roles ranging from Gilbert and Sullivan to Stephen Sondheim (favourites - Mad Margaret (Ruddigore), Katisha (The Mikado), Mrs Lovett (Sweeney Todd), Baker's Wife (Into the Woods), Phyllis (Follies), Old Lady (Candide). She has acted as Vocal Coach to many musical theatre productions, including Les Miserables and We Will Rock You, and as Musical Director to Little Shop of Horrors and Whistle Down the Wind. In a past life she did rather a lot of folk singing. Judith is also a Level 2 Reiki practitioner.