Showing 355 results in the category Summer schools and short courses.
NYMC provide opportunities for young people from across the UK to broaden their musical experience, develop their skills and share their enjoyment with others. The camps offer a musical and creative environment to all young people interested in music, regardless of playing standard – there is no minimum grade of entry. In 2019 camps move to an exciting new location at Pipers Corner School in Buckinghamshire.
Teenage Camps (13-17 years) 26th July -1st Aug & 2nd Aug - 8the Aug 2020
Junior Camp (8-12 years) 9th - 15th August 2020
The Stables Theatre Ltd, Stockwell Lane, Wavendon, Milton Keynes, MK17 8LU, United Kingdom
Summer Course (6 nights) at Rugby School - NYRO for players of at least Grade 8 standard and NYTRO (training orchestra) for young players from Grade 5 up to Grade 8. Upper age limit is 25. Cost £545 2020.
Easter Course (4 nights) at Rugby School every year, open to young players from Grade 4-6 and Grade 7-Diploma. Upper age limit is 21. Cost £335 2020.
Recorder Days at various locations around the country. Whole day for players of Grade 3 up to Diploma. Afternoon sessions for players of a lower standard. Upper age limit 25. Cost £30 whole day - £10 afternoon only.
2 Regent Close, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B5 7PL, United Kingdom
Take Park or Observe NYSO during an afternoon on one of its residential courses Easter or summer 2020 and experience what NYSO has to offer. Parents and teachers welcome to observe.
Senior and Intermediate orchestras, Senior orchestra applicants grade 8 standard or above and aged 14 and up to 21.
Intermediate Applicants grade 5 - 8 standard or above aged up to 17 (youngest age accepted is 9).
Find out more and register your interest at www.nyso.uk 'Join Us'
Willow Cottage, Dallinghoo, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP13 0LG, United Kingdom
The National Youth Wind Orchestra Of Great Britain is a large concert orchestra with approximately 75 members aged 14-21. Main Orchestra grade 8, ages 14-21. Chamber Music Course and Saxophone Course grade 8, ages 14-21. Auditions take place every autumn for courses the following year. Residential courses Spring and Summer. NYWO is considered by conductors coming from abroad to be one of the very best wind orchestras in the world.
Min gr 8 or overseas equivalent. International courses in London for pianists, teachers and advanced students. Courses inc individual sessions at the kb and in Alexander Technique. Principles of Alexander Technique applied to aspects of playing and creative preparation for performing. Dates: Friday 3rd - Wed 8ths January 2020. Fees: Some scholarships available.
23 Rofant Road, Northwood, Middlesex, HA6 3BD, United Kingdom
For pianists, accs and pno duos; also for str players and ens. Jr and sr groups, performers' group. Summer courses in August in the UK. Tuition by professors from leading conservatoires, concerts and m/classes, lectures and seminars on perf technique, CD recording. Final concert at the RAM. Individual scheduling, fun activities. Dates: Aug; applications by 30 May. Fees: Partial scholarships available. Loyalty discount for former students.
78 Warwick Avenue, Edgware, Middlesex, HA8 8UJ, United Kingdom
All ages and abilities. Held at College of St Hild and St Bede, Durham. One week’s course covering all aspects of early music: rcdrs, viols, baroque strs, renaissance insts, plucked insts, hpd, singing and dancing. Dates: Saturday 1st July to Saturday 8th August 2020.
Rose Cottage, Brigg Rd, South Kelsey, Market Rasen, LN7 6PQ, United Kingdom
The summer school provides outstanding jazz tuition in stunning surroundings on the Isle of Skye for instrumentalists and vocalists aged between 12 and 21 by a carefully selected team of renowned jazz musicians and educators from the UK and beyond.
13 Somerset Place, Glasgow, G3 7JT, United Kingdom
19 - 25 July 2020 | Ages 13 - 21
A unique opportunity for young conductors to gain experience and expert tuition, our online conducting programme covers all essential rehearsal and performance aspects for young conductors from score preparation to rehearsal technique. Students will improve musicianship and listening skills, build confidence, and join a global community of young musicians.
Course leader Tim Redmond is a regular guest conductor with the London Symphony Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Professor of Conducting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
A week's course of rehearsals for singers and instrumentalists culminating in a public performance of Dido and Aeneas.
A week's course for singers, instrumentalists, actors and those interested in technical support, which culminates in a public performance of a musical version of A Midsummer Night's Dream. See website for details.
Summer School in the Italian Tyrol, with superb, work-class singing teachers and coaches and Alexander Technique and a strong community ethos. We use the local music school, and meet in the square in between sessions!
Gillot Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B16 0RU, United Kingdom
OperaCoast is a dynamic UK-based company that provides upcoming singers and musicians with unique performing experience. The company has been consistently growing and developing since its establishment in 2011. At our courses and workshops, which attract participants from all over the UK and from abroad, we work with singers to develop a deeper understanding of the emotional content of opera and art song. Our most outstanding soloists are offered a performing platform in order to sharpen and showcase their professional skills. Visit our website to find out more about our courses and workshops.
ORCHESTRA of SOUND and LIGHT is an educational initiative of the New Music Players, designed to spread the experience and excitement of ensemble performance with visuals to schools, further and higher education, and other settings.
OSL is a core ensemble of five players, flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano, conducted by Ed Hughes.
Key aims:
- to share the experience of ensemble playing by embedding all kinds of players – classical and non-classical – alongside our core of five top professional classical musicians
- to explore and promote the language of music and silent film.
3 Morley Close, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 1NQ, United Kingdom
Dates: Jul.
Association des Amis de l’Orgue de Saessolsheim, Francis Jacob, 3, rue Neuve, F-67270 Saessolsheim, France
Professional development course for emerging conductors; two-piano sessions, symphonic and concerto repertoire, experience with BBC Scottish Chamber Orchestra and an ensemble; contact with composers. Participants conduct in Festival concert at the end of the course. Dates: 19-25 June 2020. Fees: £690, including self-catering accommodation.
St Magnus International Festival, 60 Victoria St, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1DN, United Kingdom
Our Summer School runs for six jam-packed days alongside the Oundle International Festival, for organists roughly in the 14-22 age bracket who are at or very near grade 6 standard or above. Working with distinguished tutors, studying repertoire of all periods, honing technique, keyboard skills, and making music in both concert and liturgical settings, there is a lot to be done in such a short space of time.
Oundle International Festival, 4 New Street, Oundle, Peterborough, PE8 4EA, United Kingdom
POTS is an introductory course for 10-15 year olds who are either in the early stages of organ study or are pianists at grade 4 or above who wish to have a go at playing the organ. With wonderful tutors and a stimulating environment, POTS is a great place to begin a lifelong love of the organ and its repertoire.
Oundle International Festival,, 4 New Street, Oundle, Peterborough, PE8 4EA, United Kingdom
OFO Abroad is an intensive course for advanced students and young professionals. It is aimed at organists who are roughly in the 18-26 age bracket and would like to experience world-class instruments abroad. The experience of playing repertoire on the instruments it was written for is a life-changing event; the organs will teach you almost as much as the wonderful tutors we have lined up for you. This year, the course will be held in Leipzig and surrounding areas, exploring organs associated with Bach, as well as some Romantic instruments.
Oundle International Festival, 4 New Street, Oundle, Peterborough, PE8 4EA, United Kingdom
Voice and accompaniment. Open to those aged 17. Masterclasses (Ann Murray DBE), opera scenes, classes in Lieder, Song cycle, early music, oratorio, cantata, French song, English song, Scots song, American song, Russian song, opera coaching, vocal technique, EFT, cabaret, acting, performance nerves and audition experience. The course takes place at Loretto School, Linkfield Road, Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland, EH21 7RE. Fees are between £60-835 with a number of resident, non-resident, observer, day and whole-week options available.
C/O Opera North, Leeds Grand Theatre, 46 New Briggate, Leeds, Yorkshire, LS1 6NU, United Kingdom
Residential and non-residential summer courses. Performance (gr 8) , Advanced (gr 6-8), Intermediate (gr 4-6), Junior (beginners-gr 3); Exam Booster Course to get the very best mark in your ABRSM exam, Adult Improvers (up to gr 6), Adult Advanced (gr 6-8) and Adult Diploma Courses (gr 8), Alpine Cello Course in France, Double Bass Teaching for Cello Teachers, Solo perf opportunities with orch, m/classes, tech/scale sessions, individual lessons, video analysis, improv, ens, vc orch, gr 6-8 aural and gr 5 theory. Dates: Jul-Aug. Fees: £466-£1440.
Radley College, Abingdon, OX14 2HR, United Kingdom