Courses in London & Online

This third year of our classical piano programme continues with repertoire of a grade 1 standard and is suitable for students working towards ABRSM Grade 2. Improve your technique, fluency of reading and playing, and exploring more complex rhythmic patterns.

Come and discover what an elementary Spanish class feels like.
This course is suitable if you have studied Spanish for 1 year recently.

Learn the techniques required in making sculptural or functional objects in steel: cutting, bending, welding and joining small scale metal. Please bring ideas, inspiration and scrap metal. This course is for beginners and those at intermediate level.

This popular course explores musical theatre singing. Grow your knowledge of the repertoire. Suitable for singers and actors wanting to improve their singing and acting through song technique. Be guided through the basics to find the right singing qualities for this repertoire.

Break weeks
Term 1 26th - 30th Oct 2026
Term 2 no scheduled break week
Term 3 Bank holidays Mondays & 1-4 Jun 2027

MF328A - Alternate break week pattern - 15th and 22nd October and 19th November 2026.

Learn about irregular metre, tenor clef, major and minor keys to six flats/sharps, primary triads, cadences, and standard expression signs. Essential for anyone taking higher grade practical exams. (Break Week: 26/29th Oct 2026 or 2nd June 2027 as appropriate)

For pianists with around three years' experience. Work on grade 4 standard repertoire to improve your hand coordination, musical phrasing, reading and finger technique, and improve your confidence. This course is suitable for students working towards ABRSM Grade 4.

Follow in the footsteps of Michelangelo and Rodin to learn how to capture the human figure, both physically and emotionally, on this fascinating practical sculpting course. You will work from a life model to develop your own clay sculpture of the human form.

Please bring your camera (if you have one) to the classes and you may wish to bring a notebook and pen. City Lit has a range of Digital SLR and mirrorless cameras (Canon, Fuji, Nikon, Sony), tripods, lenses and flash which you are welcome to use during the hours of the class.

It would be useful to bring a memory stick (or portable hard drive - please note: PC formatted hard drives can be read by Apple mac computers but not written to.) We advise all students to have a notebook (A5) to support the recording of information and ideas.

Whilst not necessary for this course, when you enrol on a course at the City Lit, you are entitled to student discount on Adobe Creative Cloud.

If you’ve mastered the basics and want to develop your skills, our improver level course focuses on refining key fundamentals such as turns, cross-body leads, and styling. You’ll be challenged to dance to Salsa music at different tempos, building confidence as you learn and to practice more complex moves. No partner needed, part of the fun is meeting new people, but most of all enjoying yourself while learning.

An ensemble class for players of any fretted instrument: guitar, banjo, ukulele, mandolin, bass guitar or any other! There will be individual parts for each player suited to their abilities; together we will play all sorts of music. This course is for experienced players, the ability to read one of the following will be necessary: chord symbols, tablature or musical notation. Challenging and fun - the music/repertoire will be tailored to your various abilities.