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City Lit is a leading provider of adult education in London and all over the UK. It's the perfect place to learn something new, gain new skills, and build your confidence. From mastering new languages and honing creative skills to advancing your career with professional development courses. Whatever your passion or goal, our diverse curriculum has the perfect course to inspire your next step.

 

 

 

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  6. Singing 2
    Course start date:  Mon 15 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Hakan Vramsmo
    Continue your singing journey and explore your voice in the second year of our training programme. These classes will further develop your singing voice and musicianship skills through a selection of technical exercises and songs from a variety of genres to suit all musical tastes.
    Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £195.00
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  7. Singing 3
    Course start date:  Wed 17 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Trevor Alexander
    Develop your singing journey and explore your voice in the third year of our training programme. These classes will further advance your singing voice and musicianship skills through a selection of technical exercises and songs from a variety of genres to suit all musical tastes. Break week 20th October 2025.
    Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £195.00
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  9. Acting: scenes to performance
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Thu 18 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Laura Baggaley
    Practise and develop your acting skills by rehearsing in depth scenes from contemporary plays or a whole short play. These will be performed in the college's John Lyons Theatre to an invited audience at the end of the course. This course is suitable for students who have completed a broad range of our acting courses at beginners and improvers level or who have gained suitable experience elsewhere.
    Full fee £379.00 Senior fee £303.00 Concession £265.00
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  12. Chamber music: advanced
    Course start date:  Thu 1 May 2025 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Gisela Meyer
    Discover the pleasure of playing in small, mixed instrumental ensembles, one per part, in a variety of repertoire. For classical instrumentalists at grade 5/6 or above. Due to the demanding nature of most piano parts, pianists should play at Grade 8 level or higher. Good sight reading skills and experience in chamber music are required.
    Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £195.00
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  13. English pronunciation: stage 1
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 23 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  David John Gwillim
    Are you a non-native fluent speaker who wants to improve your pronunciation of English and to speak the language more clearly and confidently? Work on clear formation of vowel and consonant sounds including the English neutral vowel and the distinction between voiced and unvoiced sounds. This term the course will be taught online.
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  15. Writing about music
    Course start date:  Thu 25 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Edward Breen, Katy Hamilton

    Experience the enjoyment of writing about music. Share your musical opinions in several formats and be inspired to develop your own longer-term writing project on this classical music focussed course.

    Break week: 30 Oct 2025.
    Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £188.00
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