BAPAM's Maintaining Your Healthy Career: Preparation For Performance

BAPAM deliver expert health and wellbeing services in the performing arts. Our events give artists, creators, technicians, teachers, and organisers the knowledge they need to improve health and enjoy sustainable careers.

Join our free online peer support group and:

• Embed health and wellbeing strategies into your creative toolkit
• Learn new skills with guest coaches and speakers.
• Set goals
• Take part in peer discussion and support in a safe space facilitated by an experienced BAPAM clinician

Lucy Heyman

Lucy Heyman is a vocal and performance coach, researcher and lecturer. She is the co-author (with Rhian Jones) of industry-funded musicians’ health and performance manual, Sound Advice: The Ultimate Guide to a Healthy and Successful Career in Music.

Lucy’s PhD research at the Royal College of Music focuses on the health and wellbeing support of popular musicians, and she presents her original work at international conferences and in peer-reviewed journals.

In 2018 she founded musicians’ health and performance consultancy, Elevate Music, working with artists, music industry organisations and charities. She also hosts the health-focused Elevate Music Podcast in partnership with Help Musicians, with guests including Imogen Heap, Dodie, Shaun Ryder, Nina Nesbitt and more.

Lucy holds a MSc in Performance Science from the Royal College of Music and a BA in Music from Bristol University. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

In this session we will learn how to:

• optimise your practice in the lead up to a performance
• reduce sources of stress in advance of a performance
• improve your pre-performance routines
• reflect on your performance and your post performance review