Linda Tomkinson was first introduced to Seth Riggs and Speech Level Singing (SLS) in 1995. In her first lesson with Seth, he recognized her ability to quickly catch on and strongly encouraged her to pursue a career in SLS and voice lessons. Taking his advice, Linda met with great success and developed a great passion for teaching singing lessons and built a large and varied 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 in Utah now Linda’s students are worldwide.

Linda served as Executive Director for the Seth Riggs Summer Vocal program from 2005 to 2009 and also served as director of SLS International Teachers’ Conference annually from 2010-2012.

Linda has received several awards from SLS International and even scholarship money to further her education and training. Linda feels honored to have been mentored and trained by Seth Riggs and several other Master Teachers,  including: Greg Enriquez, Jeffrey Skouson, Dave Stroud, Brett Manning, Michael Goodrich and Wendy Parr. Linda continues her studies today and believes that learning should never end.

In March of 2013 Linda joined with several of the Master Teachers to form IVA, Institute for Vocal Advancement,  an organization dedicated to training and educating teachers in the mixed voice.  She is a founding member on the board of directors, serves as a Master Teacher, and is the Director of Conference.

Linda’s clients with great success and have performed around the world including on Rihanna World Tour, The Voice, American Idol, The X Factor, Disney, BYU Young Ambassadors, Broadway, Dance Dance Revolution, Fuse TV, Xbox 360, Konami, Cascade Recordings, Big Idea Productions, Hale Center Theatre, Usana, Tuacahn. They have won numerous talent contests and scholarships.