Summer courses in performing arts
Enhance your performance skills and choose from taster sessions and intensives in music, drama, dance and voice.
- Narration for podcast and documentary (intensive)
Course start date: Sat 29 Nov 2025 (and 2 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: David ThorpeA fun and intensive weekend workshop all about the incredible world of narration. This enormous and lucrative area of the voiceover world includes e-learning, documentaries, audio books, medical/technical narration, explainer videos and more. You’ll learn how to deliver great reads from the inside out. It’s not just about the sound of your voice! This course will be delivered in the media studio.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £125.00 - Piano: advanced performance workshop Course start date: Thu 4 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Alexander BoydThe advanced performance workshop is for pianists playing at Grade 8 standard and above, comprising two three-hour sessions. This insightful class will address issues of interpretation and style as well as dealing with aspects of technique and performance practice.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00 - Argentine Tango: introduction Course start date: Sun 7 Dec 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Adriana PegorerAn introduction to the fundamentals of this famous partner dance, where you will learn and practice in a supportive and fun environment. This session is part of a series of one-day workshops. You can join more than one if you wish, as the content facilitation will vary. These playful explorations emphasise posture, connection, and coordination, and provide a practice space for like-minded enthusiasts. Suitable for both beginners and those with some prior experience. No partner needed – come alone, with a partner or with friends.
Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £34.00 - Orchestra workshop Course start date: Tue 9 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Robert Puzey, Trish ShawA fun, intensive workshop for players of orchestral instruments of Grade 6 level upwards, with good music reading skills. Please click the 'Start interview' button, follow the login instructions, and the Music Department will contact you.
Repertoire for Dec. 2025:
Mozart, Overture to Le petits riens K.229b (1778)
Saint-Saëns, Romance in C major for violin & orchestra Op. (1874) [soloist: Robert Puzey]
Farrenc Symphony No 3 in G minor Op.36 (1847)2025 is the 150th anniversary of Farrenc's death, so we have programmed the symphony to commemorate this. Here is a performance by Aurora Orchestra.
Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £111.00 Concession £97.00 - Enhance your impact and presenceCourse start date: Sat 13 Dec 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Stephanie LunnDiscover how to enhance your vocal and physical impact and presence in many situations and become aware of habits that may hold you back, on this intensive weekend course.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £97.00 - Rhythm classCourse start date: Wed 14 Jan 2026
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Matt FisherSupplement your instrumental or vocal study and improve your musical timekeeping. You will play in these online sessions, read and write rhythms, and work by ear.
Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00 - Use your voice assertivelyCourse start date: Fri 16 Jan 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lloyd WyldeDo you want to sound more confident, grounded, self-assured and assertive? Improve your vocal skills through a series of exercises that will support you to become more vocally confident, expressive and dynamic without appearing arrogant. This course will be delivered in the college.
Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £125.00 - Vocal recording: production techniques Course start date: Fri 23 Jan 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Max La VillaLearn how to make recordings of sung and/or spoken voices, then edit them, add effects, or mix with other tracks. Suitable for those with some previous experience in digital audio.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £139.00 - TV presenting for beginners (intensive)Course start date: Sat 21 Feb 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Gary GrantHave you ever thought you could cut it as a TV presenter, but been unsure where to start? Discover your TV presenting potential. Learn how to present to camera, read autocue, memorise a piece to camera, interview and talk to time.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £153.00 - Combining voice and PilatesCourse start date: Sat 4 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kate MontagueThis innovative and one-off workshop shows you how to integrate modified Pilates movements with voice training as a holistic approach to voice, starting at breath release and progressing into phonation and resonance. Through this combination you may begin to find a link between body and voice through the core muscles of support. A fun but intensive Saturday workshop in the college.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £69.00 - Directing theatre (intensive) Course start date: Sun 5 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Laura BaggaleyWorking with an experienced theatre director, explore the multiple aspects of directing theatre productions, including rehearsal preparation, text analysis and research, collaborating with the design team, and techniques for getting the best performances from actors.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £139.00 - Debating: intensiveCourse start date: Wed 15 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Gavin IllsleyDebating requires the ability to speak English persuasively in public and, crucially, to respond rapidly to other people’s objections to what you say. In this shorter, intensive version of our highly popular course, we will cover the theory and practice of debating, and you will progress quickly in areas of content, strategy and style. A great mental workout.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £118.00 - Stage combat: unarmed Course start date: Sun 19 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sean CroftExplore unarmed combat and develop a selection of moves to combine in to a choreographed sequence!
A well-executed fight scene can make stage combat look easy but, much like dancing, it must be intricately choreographed and extensively rehearsed, to provide that authentic feel while remaining safe. Suitable for everyone.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £48.00 - Classical acting Course start date: Mon 20 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Laura BaggaleyBroaden your skills and discover the freedom to act with classical text in a safe and fun environment, playing with a range of texts from Ibsen to Oscar Wilde. Gain the confidence to tackle different styles of language and performance through practical exercises and scene work.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £139.00 - Actor summer school: beginners Course start date: Mon 20 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sean Croft, Juliet PragueThis is a five day intensive encounter with the acting process. Designed for beginners to explore the fundamentals in a safe and supportive enviroment. Also suitable for those with some prior experience wanting to refresh and focus their skills.Full fee £379.00 Senior fee £379.00 Concession £265.00
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