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- Latin pianoCourse start date: Mon 3 Jun 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sara DhillonThis practical online course for pianists (grade 4 ABRSM and above) will introduce you to the dynamic role of the piano in Afro-Cuban and Salsa music. We will focus on harmonic development, rhythm, learning common montuno patterns. Whether your background is classical, jazz or pop music, this short course will teach you classic Cuban styles including Son, Mambo, Bolero, and Cha Cha Cha.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £109.00 Senior fee £109.00 Concession £76.00 - Musical analysis for audiences 2Course start date: Fri 7 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Pauline GreeneExploring further beneath the surface of a musical work can help us decipher programme notes, understand the work’s context and a composer’s intentions, and greatly enhance our enjoyment of a performance.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £90.00 - Swing jazz rhythm notationCourse start date: Thu 13 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Angele VeltmeijerWould you like to improve your playing, reading and writing in swing time? This short course aims to help you hear and steer in jazz swing feel. Live practice sessions on Zoom. Students must be accustomed to playing jazz, and jazz singers are welcome to join this class.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £69.00 - Singing: daily vocal workoutCourse start date: Mon 15 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Heather LongmanDo you find it diffucult to motivate yourself to practise singing? Do you get stuck wondering which warm-ups and exercises are the best ones for you? Or have you had a break from singing and need some encouragemnet to get back into practising? Then come and join us online for a week of daily warm-ups and exercises to get you on the right track.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £41.00 - Vibrato: a short studyCourse start date: Thu 18 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Edward BreenWhat is vibrato and how is it used? Learn about the history of vocal vibrato and arguments surrounding its use.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00 - Music history book clubCourse start date: Fri 19 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Edward BreenThe music history book club meets towards the end of each term to discuss novels and biography with musical themes and references relevant to the music history programme. This term’s book is The Jewels of Paradise: Donna Leon.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - Exploring classical music: module 1
Course start date: Mon 16 Sep 2024 (and 2 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Edward BreenDo you want to know more about Western classical music? Explore selected topics and key works in Medieval to (early) Baroque music on this informative 10-week course. Ideal for people with no specialist knowledge. NB: Break week: 28 Oct 2024.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £139.00 - Piano/keyboards 5ACourse start date: Mon 16 Sep 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Simon AtkinsFor pianists with around four years' experience. Improve your finger technique, coordination, phrasing, music
reading, and your confidence.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £160.00 - Music theory: grade 7Course start date: Tue 17 Sep 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Selena KayLearn more complex elements of music: figured bass, melodic and harmonic decoration, writing for instrument or voice with given accompaniment, and score analysis of both harmonic and phrase structure, style, performance and directions. Break weeks: 23 March, 1, 8 15 April 2024 and 27 May 2024.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £399.00 Senior fee £399.00 Concession £279.00 - Classical guitar: advancedCourse start date: Wed 24 Apr 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Tony RowdenFor experienced classical guitar players. Practise scales and arpeggios at grade 7 and 8, and fingerstyle versions of Baroque, Latin and contemporary music.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 Concession £132.00 - Music theory: Bach choralesCourse start date: Wed 18 Sep 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Oliver ChandlerLearn to name chords, cadences and recognise basic chord progressions in Bach’s 4-part chorale textures. Break week 28th October 2024.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £139.00 - Exploring classical music: module 3Course start date: Tue 23 Apr 2024 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Neil LuckDo you want to know more about classical music history? Explore selected topics and key works in Romantic and modern music on this highly informative 10 week course. Ideal for people with no specialist knowledge. Please note this course has a mid-term break: 28 May 2024.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00 - A history of piano musicCourse start date: Thu 19 Sep 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Maria RazumovskayaTrace the development of keyboard instruments and their repertoire from Bach’s Goldberg Variations to the late works of Brahms. Explore the composers and makers who shaped the keyboard into one of the most versatile and popular instruments of all time, and learn about history, style, genre and function through guided listening and score reading. Break week: 31 October 2024.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Drumming: advancedCourse start date: Sun 21 Apr 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Mark HuggettThis next term of our advanced course is an opportunity to practise all the essential popular grooves we have tackled. Enhance and maintain your technique, reading and stamina. Sessions will be delivered online so you will play your own kit, acoustic or electronic.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 - Writing song lyrics: create and combine with melodyCourse start date: Tue 5 Nov 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Polly HewettLearn to create or improve catchy original lyrics and combine them with an existing or a new melody.Instrumentalists and vocalists are welcome to this collaborative course, as are lyricists who have completed Song lyric writing for popular music. Live sessions online.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £104.00
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