Linda Tomkinson - Vocal Instructor

Linda was first introduced to Seth Riggs and SLS in 1995. In her first lesson with Seth, he recognized her ability to quickly catch on and strongly encouraged her to pursue a teaching career in Speech Level Singing. Taking Seth’s advice, Linda met with great success in building a large clientele over a short period of time with only word of mouth as her advertising. She has attracted much of the local talent, artists, and singer/songwriters and now Linda students are worldwide.

“Linda Tomkinson is an extremely rare voice teacher who cannot only negotiate from the lower part of her range to the upper part of her range without a break, but she can teach it.  Again I want to say that Linda Tomkinson knows and can do it herself.  Most importantly she brings it in all of pupils, old and young, male and female with equal aplome, and I cannot endorse anyone more heartily than Linda Tomkinson.” Seth Riggs, President and founder of Speech Level Singing.

Known as the teacher who gets results, Linda has always enjoyed the challenge and satisfaction of helping to develop the vocal talent of both professionals and non-professionals alike. She has over 17 years of teaching experience. She is a level 5 SLS Certified instructor, the highest level attainable, and in 2010 was invited to be one of only five Instructor Management Trainers for Speech Level Singing International.  Known as the IMT, they are responsible for educating and training all SLS teachers worldwide.

Linda served as Executive Director for the Seth Riggs Summer Vocal program from 2005 to 2009.  She is currently director of SLS International Teacher’s Conference held annually where teachers come to be trained and educated. Linda has received several awards from SLS international and even scholarship money to further her education and training. Linda continues her own study today with Master Instructor Seth Riggs. Linda feels honored to have been mentored & trained by several of Seth’s Master teachers, past and present including: Greg Enriquez, Jeffrey Skouson, Dave Stroud, Brett Manning and Wendy Parr.

Linda’s students have met with great success and have competed and performed on American Idol, The X-factor, Disney, BYU Young Ambassadors, Dance Dance Revolution, Fuse TV, Xbox 360, Konami, Cascade Recordings, Big Idea Productions, Hale Center Theater, Usana, and have won numerous talent contests and scholarships.

A wonderful summation of philosophy taught in her studio is found in the following statement: “I’m committed to teaching what I believe is vocal truth, the SLS pedagogy, which produces strong, healthy and commercial sounding voices, in a very cause and effect way.”