Grettel Killing is a 21-year-old vocalist, originally from Estonia and currently studying in her 3rd year on the BMus Popular Music degree at the Royal Northern College of Music.

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Grettel is an ABRSM Scholar 2017. She has been working on Scandinavian cruise ships since 2014, fronting a 6-piece band.  She is currently performing with function bands both in Estonia and in the UK and creating vocal arrangements for different artists. She has also started working with a new professional a cappella group called Northern Voices.

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Grettel is the Assistant Musical Director and has performed with the Royal Northern College of Music Session Orchestra in Music For Youth Festival in Birmingham in July 2016. In October 2016, June 2017, October 2017 and April 2018, Grettel performed at a sell-out gig in the RNCM Opera Theatre with the RNCM Session Orchestra. She was also selected to represent the RNCM Session Orchestra in Dulwich International Festival of Music in Shanghai, November 2016. In March 2017 she had the opportunity to perform with the RNCM Session Orchestra and Bill Laurance Band.

Grettel is looking forward to perform once again with RNCM Session Orchestra in June Showcase 2018!

 

 

Coming from a very musical family, music has always been a natural part of Grettel’s life. At the age of 3, she was accepted to the Estonian Television Music Studio where she was able to pursue her love for singing both as a soloist and a choir member. Singing in a professional choir gave her the opportunity to perform with many artists around the world and to compete in prestigious choir competitions all around the Europe, Hong Kong and South Africa. As a kid, Grettel did voice-overs for different commercials and films in Estonian, such as “The Ice Age 2” “Charlotte’s Web” and “Despicable Me”.

 

After graduating Tallinn School of Music with honors studying classical piano in 2010, Grettel decided to focus on singing - she put together an a cappella group. Having trouble to find perfect arrangements for her contemporary-sounding pop group, she decided to challenge herself - she started to write her own arrangements. Her vocal group “2Loud” was the first group in the history to win the national a cappella ensemble competition twice in a row. Grettel’s arrangements received an award for the best arrangements in both years.

 

In 2014 and 2015, Grettel was selected to attend A Cappella Academy – a 10-day-long intensive summer programme in Los Angeles, co-founded by Ben Bram, Rob Dietz and one of the members of Pentatonix – Avi Kaplan, where she was able to develop her skills as a vocalist, performer, arranger, music director and a songwriter and work with the brightest minds in the field.

 

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