VocalEntrepreneur, with its Making Waves podcast, industry mixers and business sessions, offers vocal artists the invaluable opportunity to connect with one another, share practice and information, and find a sense of community. In these challenging times, it is just the kind of initiative we need

In 2012 Arlene and I came together to produce the Singing Entrepreneur Forum - an opportunity and invitation for classical singers to think differently about their careers and take back control in the face of shrinking opportunities, lowering pay and hierarchical structures. This was pre-Brexit, COVID, cost of living crisis, the rise of AI and the Tory war on culture. Over a decade later very little has changed. Vocal Entrepreneur is more needed now than it was even then! Arlene has developed a tool kit and process for vocal artists that gives you a new way to think about yourselves as cultural innovators. With unmatched experience, connections and a huge heart, Arlene is forming a movement that empowers and a community that cares. We need each other more than ever - Vocal Entrepreneur is the hub we’ve been looking for.

“What you are doing is redefining success”

What I love about Arlene Rolph and VocalEntrepreneur is that she cares. That comes through in her business acumen, in her attitude and the way in which she works in VocalEntrepreneur with other artists. She’s genuinely collaborative and caring of the creative person and the creative network, and understands that we need each other ; and that isn't always obvious in the way other people work within the industry. Arlene's own personal career speaks for itself. In her subsequent career in mentoring and encouraging others and the next generation of creatives, I see VocalEntrepreneur as a culmination of all of the things that Arlene holds dear, as an artist, as a creative but also, more importantly, as a person. This is incredibly valuable and I cannot recommend Arlene or VocalEntrepreneur highly enough as an artist myself, but also as the founder and artist and director of Oxford opera.

I was fortunate enough to be featured in Arlene’s ‘Making Waves’ series when I began my new venture, returning to the world of theatre. Arlene not only held the space for me to express myself but also connected what my truth was as an artist to my business endeavours. Arlene’s vision is so needed at this time for us to flourish and redefine the arts from wherever we are creating. By developing VocalEntrepreneur Arlene makes the conversation bigger and bolder than it could ever be as a singular voice. Here we redefine ourselves and, with the support of VocalEntrepreneur find a way to own our stories confidently, so we can continue changing what needs to be changed and applauding the spaces that have given us the freedom to be all we are without restriction. Arlene and her incredible company VE pave a way for us; a new approach to holding your value through recognition of your ‘why’ in your artistry.