Performing Arts Courses & Classes in London and Online
City Lit offers performing arts courses in the heart of Covent Garden in Central London during the evening, daytime and at weekends. Explore our range of subjects including acting, (including accredited acting courses), dance, radio and screen, and voice, speech and communication as well as a full range of music courses, such as piano, singing, strings and wind instruments to jazz and pop, music technology, music theory and history
Some of our courses are delivered online. For more information about our live online courses, please see our guide to online learning .
Our courses are labelled clearly for beginners or those with previous experience and you can speak to a specialist advisor to help you choose the right level. If you would you like some help or advice:
For music courses email music@citylit.ac.uk. You can also view our music auditions and advice page.
For drama, dance and speech courses email drama@citylit.ac.uk
- Piano/keyboards: exploring Grade 2 piecesCourse start date: Tue 2 Aug 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ana Claudia MagalhaesStudy pieces from the ABRSM 2021 & 2022 Grade 2 piano syllabus. Learn the required scales and try some aural tests. An ideal way to boost your learning over the summer.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £42.00 - Piano/keyboards: exploring Grade 1 piecesCourse start date: Tue 2 Aug 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ana Claudia MagalhaesStudy pieces from the new ABRSM 2021 & 2022 Grade 1 piano syllabus. Learn the required scales and try some aural tests. An ideal way to boost your learning over the summer.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £42.00 - Great works: West Side StoryCourse start date: Tue 2 Aug 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Pauline GreeneSixty-five years ago, West Side Story took Broadway by storm, and now a new film is doing the same. Who created it and how, and what impact did it have on musicals – and in films - afterwards?Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £23.00 Concession £18.00 - Piano masterclassCourse start date: Tue 2 Aug 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Maria RazumovskayaApproach core piano repertoire through the prism of the Russian piano tradition, gaining insight into its principles of
rubato, 'sound', chord techniques, pedalling, and the 'artistic image' of a piece.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00 - Violin and viola tasterCourse start date: Mon 8 Aug 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Edmund TaylorLearn how to hold the violin/viola and bow, how the instrument works, and play some simple tunes by the end of the session. Please bring your own instrument.Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00 - Piano taster
Course start date: Wed 10 Aug 2022 (and 1 other date)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ana Claudia MagalhaesA fun introduction to the piano: learn the names of the notes and where they are, and how to play some simple tunes. Find out whether piano is for you!Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - Flute tasterCourse start date: Thu 11 Aug 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
The course introduces you to the basic techniques of playing the flute and gives you an insight into what is involved in learning the instrument. tutor: Pam Pecko Smith.Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00 - Cello tasterCourse start date: Thu 11 Aug 2022
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Polly HewettLearn how to hold the cello and bow, how the instrument works, and play some simple tunes by the end of the session. Please bring your own instrument.Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00 - Learn to read music: tasterCourse start date: Thu 11 Aug 2022
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Selena KayBegin to read music, for instrumental playing and singing. Learn to name and recognise notes. An introduction for
absolute beginners.
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 - Great works: Byrd's Quomodo cantabimusCourse start date: Wed 24 Aug 2022
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Edward BreenExplore the eight-voice motet Quomodo cantabimus (How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land) by William Byrd and learn how it may be interpreted as a reaction to the newly-protestant England in which he lived.
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 £15.00 Concession £12.00 - Music theory: grade 8Course start date: Mon 21 Feb 2022 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Karl LutchmayerLearn more complex elements of music such as writing two-part counterpoint above a given harmony, writing for
keyboard in historical styles, writing melodies for instrument, and analysing a score (ornaments, harmonic structure,
phrase structure, style, performance directions, use of voices and instruments). NB: this course has several scheduled breaks: 28 Mar, 4th, 11 and 18th April (Easter) and 2nd, 9th 30th May 2022 (Bank holiday Mondays).
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £299.00 Concession £194.00
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