Performing Arts Courses & Classes in London and Online

A whistle-stop tour of Western classical music in the 19th century. You will explore the ideas that came to define Romanticism for composers and performers, study a range of musical works, and consider the changing context of performance from c.1790 to c.1914. NB: Break week 18 Feb 2025.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Composer and virtuoso violist Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) was an internationally-renowned performer and pioneer in professional music-making at a time when British musical life made precious little space for women intent on pursuing a musical career. We explore her career as a violist in the UK and further afield, as well as studying her numerous chamber works and songs, which are finally beginning to enjoy wider recognition.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

What is an orchestra? And why does it need a conductor? We’ll examine orchestral instruments and many works to answer these questions, discovering a blend of exciting sounds which communicates the composer’s intentions to the audience.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Gabriel Fauré was born twelve years after the birth of Johannes Brahms, and died six years after the death of Claude Debussy. In his long life he witnessed a remarkable series of aesthetic changes in the music of France, Austro-Germany and beyond, and his own career as a composer, teacher, pianist and organist embraced a tremendous range of influences – as well as having a huge impact on the next generations of Ravel, Nadia Boulanger and Georges Enescu. We explore his life and music in celebration of the 180th anniversary of his birth. * this course has no break week.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

From Showboat to Hamilton, this course surveys key examples from the history of the modern musical and examines the way different styles of music, dance and words work on stage.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Shakespeare’s play takes us into a complex world of an aristocratic wedding, a bickering human love-triangle, a blundering group of well-meaning yokels, and above all a shimmering, wondrous realm where the fairy King and Queen play out other-worldly drama, catching everyone else in their gossamer web. With this as our starting-point, we look at how composers, librettists, choreographers, lyricists and filmmakers have interpreted the story in multiple ways, adapting it for their own time and circumstances. Break week: May 30th, 2025.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.