Jill Purce Biography

Jill Purce (born 1947) is a British voice teacher, Family Constellations therapist, and author. Purce developed in the 1970s a new way of working with the voice, introducing the teaching worldwide of group overtone chanting, producing a single note whilst amplifying the vocal harmonics. She is a former fellow of King's College London, Biophysics Department. She produced over 30 books as General Editor of the Thames and Hudson Art and Imagination series. Between 1971 and 1974 she worked in Germany with the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. Since the early 1970s she has taught internationally diverse forms of contemplative chant, and especially overtone chanting. For over fifteen years she has been leading Family Constellations combined with chant.