Performing Arts — Online Courses
Explore your creative potential with online courses in acting, dance, music, and theatre. Led by industry professionals, these courses inspire and empower.
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Music theory: grade 5Learn 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)
Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £209.00- Ballet at the barre: online
A live online ballet barre class which you can join from the comfort of your own home.The work you do at the barre is the foundation for all the other work you do as a dancer. Improve your strength, balance and coordination. Not suitable for complete beginners.
Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £125.00 - Piano/keyboards 3C online
Work on grade 3 standard repertoire to improve your hand coordination, musical phrasing, reading and technique, and improve your confidence. This course is suitable for students working towards ABRSM Grade 3.
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Mon 14 Sep 2026Simon AtkinsFull fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £174.00 - Piano/keyboards: intermediate online
For pianists playing at around grade 5 standard. Improve your technique, coordination, phrasing, music reading, aural skills and playing confidence. This course is suitable for students working towards ABRSM Grade 5 and above.
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Mon 14 Sep 2026Simon AtkinsFull fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £174.00 - Guitar: fingerstyle workshopFor classical guitar players, this online class will work on technique and fingerstyle versions of Baroque, Spanish and popular music.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £160.00
- Music theory: grade 1
Learn the basic principles of musical language and notation: rhythmic values, time signatures, pitch on treble and bass clefs, simple major scales, intervals and key signatures, and the most common musical terms and signs. NB: Our February courses have scheduled breaks on: 15, 18 February 2027
Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £160.00 - Piano/keyboards 1D online
This is the second year of our beginners piano programme and is suitable for students working towards ABRSM Grade 1. Improve your eye/hand coordination, your reading and technique.
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Thu 17 Sep 2026Elli TsampaFull fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £195.00 - Singing workshop (contemporary)
This lively online course teaches technique and songs in popular music styles of folk, jazz, pop, rock, and musical theatre. Develop your vocal technique and musicianship in this group class, interract with the tutor and classmates, add new songs to your repertoire. New students with experience of solo singing and some formal training are welcome to join the group.
Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £299.00 Concession £209.00 - Songwriting: form and function
Develop your ability to compose songs through practical exercises. Examine well known songs from pop, rock and jazz in order to understand their chord progressions, accompaniment, bass lines and rhythm. Ideal for players and singers with a good working knowledge of harmony.Develop your ability to compose songs through practical exercises. Examine well known songs from pop, rock and jazz in order to understand their chord progressions, accompaniment, bass lines and rhythm. Ideal for players and singers with a good working knowledge of harmony.
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Sat 19 Sep 2026David HarrisonFull fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £160.00 - Music theory: counterpoint 1
Explore the art of counterpoint, a musical technique in which two or more melodies are combined to create a highly engaging musical texture. Over the year you will learn contrapuntal technique from Renaissance to Twentieth Century styles, through score analysis and practical exercises. The course is split into three terms, focusing on Renaissance style in term 1. Break Week: 27th Oct 2026
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Tue 22 Sep 2026Selena KayFull fee £279.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £195.00 - English pronunciation: stage 1Are 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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Tue 22 Sep 2026 (and 4 other dates)Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £299.00 Concession £209.00 - The essential history of jazz in 20 cuts
Through a selection of 20 iconic albums, we will study the key figures, the innovators and the star soloists of 20th century jazz, as well as some important artists you might be less familiar with. Break week: 26 Oct 2026
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Tue 22 Sep 2026Albi GravenerFull fee £299.00 Senior fee £299.00 Concession £209.00 - Barber, Copland, Ives and Gershwin
Although they’re not exact contemporaries, these four American composers were all composing in the early decades of the twentieth century, in four fascinatingly different, highly distinctive ways. This course is a chance to meet them all, and get a sense of what American music meant to them over their idiosyncratic, and often wildly successful, careers. Break week: 28 Oct 2026
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Wed 23 Sep 2026Katy HamiltonFull fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £209.00 - Musicianship 2: rhythm
Improve your rhythmic perception, execution, writing, reading and theoretical knowledge on this practical course. On this short course you'll play your instrument, or you will use your hands and your voice.
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Wed 23 Sep 2026Matt FisherFull fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £125.00 - Exploring classical music 3
Do you want to know more about Western classical music? Explore selected topics and key works in Romantic and early 20th century music on this informative 10-week course. Ideal for people with no specialist knowledge. Break weeks: 03, 31 May 2026
Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £160.00
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