About Us

Get to know the team at Naomi Ash Voice Studios and how we work

Hello! My name is Naomi Ash and I'm so pleased you've found our little corner of the world. I have been teaching singing for 15 years in 2024 but only really started feeling like I was running a 'singing school' after 10 years, in 2019 when I started putting on recitals with my students. We now hold three recitals a year and the last one had to be split into four in order to fit everyone in as the school now has over 40 students.

I am a wife, a mum of two very little ones (who both happen to be Type 1 diabetic - as am I) and I also run Faversham Musical Theatre Choir and work for Miss Sophie's Dance Academy.

At the time of writing, Naomi Ash Voice Studios has grown from being just me, Naomi, to a seven person strong team. Alice Brown joined the school in September 2023 after I needed to take a small step back due to the increasing demands of having two Type 1 diabetic children, and Elodie Miles-Inge joined the team in February 2024 as demand for singing lessons from the people of Faversham kept growing. Jack Thomson soon came along to mop up the remaining demand and over the summer of 2024, the requests kept flooding in, so Hannah Kingsford has stepped in to fill in the last remaining day that the school wasn't initially open. Since then, Elodie has moved on and been replaced by my fabulous sister, Sophie Ash and the latest addition to the teaching team is Nadya, who is brilliant! Alongside the fabulous teaching team, I also have the wonderful Emily T running the school's social media, which has been a huge factor in getting word out there that we are here and the biggest singing school in Faversham.

My personal teaching style is most likely born out of the influence my singing teachers have had on me over the years, starting with taking lessons myself from the age of 11 at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, through to singing classes at TheatreTrain and Phoenix Performing Arts, both in Canterbury, but the best input I had came from my teachers at Guildford School of Acting.

Whilst their approach was heavily Estill focussed and my voice thrived on that coaching, I enjoy teaching from a variety of methods and am learning new things about the voice and teaching singing every day.

How advanced you or your child are will determine how in depth we go. We don't want to scare anyone on their first lesson!

We always spend time relaxing, breathing, making sure our posture is correct and warming up at the beginning of each lesson before moving on to whatever material you or I would like us to work on. Each of my teacher's approach is very similar as I work with them to make sure we are working in similar ways with each of the students who come through the school.

Your goals are important to us. If you'd like to work towards a performance or audition, get stronger so you can perhaps lead worship more confidently or simply have fun and improve as a happy result of that, then we're happy to come with you on that or any other journey you wish to go on with your voice.

Meet The Team

Naomi Ash

Principle Teacher

Upon graduating from Guildford School of Acting in 2013, having absolutely loved the three year degree course, Naomi enjoyed success in a small number of professional shows. But fairly soon she felt called to engaging in creating shows for charitable causes in her local area as well as enjoying her new marriage and coaching in local stage schools, so teaching became her bread and butter and something she quickly fell in love with. Naomi has had the privilege of being Musical Director for many high quality local shows and having also completed her dance teaching qualification under the IDTA in 2008, she now teaches all three disciples (dance, drama and singing) at varying levels and to varying ages.

Although she took a break from this being my full time occupation in 2015 to become a Children and Families Minister at a church in Whitstable, Naomi kept on a few of her singing students, also keeping up her professional knowledge and performance skills.

Leaving that job in 2019, having had a baby, Naomi decided to go back to performing arts teaching and has found herself teaching singing privately in more hours of the week than anything else, which she finds an absolute joy. If she hasn't already, she looks forward to meeting you!

Alice brown

Associate Teacher - Singing

Alice's love for singing and the theatre came at a young age leading to attending singing lessons in her early teens and during this time she took part in lots of singing performances and shows.

At 18 this progressed, when Alice successfully auditioned for The Centre Performing Arts College training full time on a musical theatre and teaching course. At The Centre she took lessons with singers that had worked professionally in a variety of different shows, and helped educate her further on technique whilst building on her repertoire.

Whilst training Alice ran her own classes in Canterbury where she would regularly teach musical theatre and group singing lessons. Alice is so excited to meet her new students whilst working and continually developing as a singing teacher at Naomi Ash Voice Studios.

jack thomson

Associate Teacher - Singing & Acting Through Song

Jack trained as an actor at the prestigious East 15 acting school and, since graduating, has worked extensively as an actor, director and acting coach. Jack has appeared in the well-known BBC soap EastEnders as a reoccurring character … Primary school teacher Mr Anderson. As a creative theatre practitioner, he has been involved in many different projects in various theatres, youth centres, colleges and schools. In the week, Jack is Learning & Participation Manager at the Marlowe Theatre, which means he is constantly working at the cutting edge of theatre for young people.

Jack is looking forward to joining the team and to unlock the potential in students.

hannah kingsford

Associate Teacher - Singing & Music Theory

Hannah’s musical experience lies mostly in various instruments and music theory having achieved grade 5 in piano, saxophone and music theory and she also taught piano for 2 years before attending university. Having sung informally her whole life, Hannah started singing lessons with Naomi in 2022 and is currently working towards Grade 8 Singing for Musical Theatre Practical exam (ABRSM).

The majority of Hannah’s performance experience has been within choirs, having performed as part of a choir at school, at university, where she ran the university show choir for 2 years, and most recently as part of Faversham Musical Theatre Choir. Over the past 2 years Hannah has also performed in 3 of Claire Snoad’s “The Sound of Musicals” productions as a soloist, and will be in the role of Musical Director for the next production. Hannah also often performs at local open mic evenings, either solo or with friends.

When she’s not making music, Hannah works as a university research fellow, and is a registered social worker. Hannah is excited to start working at Naomi Ash Voice Studios, and looks forward to meeting her new students, and working alongside Naomi and the other associate teachers.

sophie ash

Associate Teacher - Singing & Music Theory

Social Media Co-ordinator

Sophie has been performing since the age of 11 when she started classes at TheatreTrain and Phoenix Performing Arts in Canterbury.

Her love of singing, dancing and acting grew throughout her time at these schools to a point where she decided to train professionally and in 2020, she completed her MA in Musical Theatre at Guildford School of Acting.

Since then, she has completed professional performing contracts and has taught singing, dancing and acting across many performing arts schools in Kent, including Miss Sophie’s Dance Acadmey, E Street Music, Phoenix Performing Arts, Stagecoach and TheatreTrain. She is also a fully qualified teacher, having gained Qualified Teacher Status and has many years experience teaching in secondary schools and has also completed her dance teacher training with the ISTD.

She is thrilled to be joining the teaching team at NAVS.

nadya duffy

Associate Teacher - Singing

Hello, I am Nadya – I was born and raised in Bulgaria where I studied in a classical music school until the age of 19 playing both piano and accordion. After graduating I pursued my passion for contemporary pop and rock singing whilst I continued my education in the Sofia University St Climent Ohridski.

I had an opportunity to teach music and accordion at a primary school for a year and take part in various concerts during my years in Sofia as well as working as a backing vocalist on a national tour for a well-known artist in the early 2000s. I have experience in working as a lead singer in a band and In early 2003 I had an opportunity to travel with a band for a yearlong contract in Southeast Asia and that’s where my music career took a break after I met someone special. The only downside to this was that I had a very long pause from live music performances. We started our family, and life took a different turn for a while.

For the last few years, I have slowly found my way back to music, performing and even teaching. I had the opportunity to perform in most of the Sound of Musicals productions in Faversham which have re-ignited my love for Musical Theatre. The variety of genres and styles that musical theatre has to offer is amazing and there is always a song for anyone. I have a regular guest appearance slot with the Blues Bandits and I take part in their annual fundraiser event as a guest singer.

I have been teaching at my home for the past 2+ years and have discovered my passion for helping students discover their abilities and building their singing and performing confidence. I am very excited to join Miss Naomi’s Singing School, just as excited as I have been all the times we’ve sung together in the Sound of Musicals!