YOU’RE ABOUT TO BECOME PART OF SOMETHING UNIQUE
FOR PERFORMERS AND THOSE WHO MAKE PERFORMANCE POSSIBLE WELCOME TO OUR FAMILY
This could be the start of something Whichever aspect of the performing Come here and you’ll be part of a that very few people get to do. arts you want to learn about and company of international artists, Spend the rest of your life doing what do, we can help you do it. We offer one creatives, technicians and business you love and are good at doing and of the widest ranges of skills and people, in an environment where getting paid for it. teaching in performing arts education you’ll be treated as an individual, not This from our annual four years after graduating work survey: in the sector. just a number. ‘Over the last three years, on average, 91% of our graduates were Welcome to the Liverpool Institute for in work, 82% in the performing arts’.* Performing Arts, where students In a competitive, often insecure sector, You’ll be supported, encouraged from all over the world come to enjoy our focus is on equipping you with to find your feet, develop your skills, *From the 83% traced in the survey. undergraduate, postgraduate and the craft, knowledge, skills and contacts broaden your cultural horizons, foundation certificate programmes. to get work, stay in work and build network, experiment, flourish personally a career. and professionally, and be part of our family.
2 3 Putting yourself at the sharp end. Pretty much everyone here has Getting on stage. In front of an been there and done that, is still doing audience. In front of the camera. it, has helped or is helping other Behind the mic. people do it. So the first thing you’ll encounter is understanding. Acting, dancing, singing, playing, directing. Projecting. Expressing Next is the inescapable feeling that yourself. Swallowing the fear. you’re in a safe place, where you Handling the critics. Learning, can try, fail, pick yourself up and try honing, improving. all over again. Until you get there.
Supported by expert teaching and lots of help from experienced professionals, who know the ropes, can teach the theory, and are grounded in the practice. YOU’RE A PERFORMER
Our graduates are working internationally as actors, arrangers, choreographers, composers, dancers, directors, educationalists, facilitators, instrumentalists, producers, session musicians, singers, solo artists, songwriters and more.
4 5 If performers are at the sharp end, And from the very beginning, we’ve you make it happen. Adding to the set out to address, teach, train and magic. And for every performer, facilitate as broad a range of behind the every discipline, there are specialists scenes roles as it’s possible to do. like you who bring performance to life. As with performers, our teaching is based in solid, practical experience Think of any medium – theatre, at a high level, with input from a lot of dance, music, film, multimedia – performing arts heavy hitters. any event, production or production process, and there are fantastic Truth is that one way or another, creative, management and logistical on record, on stage or behind it, we’re challenges and opportunities. all performers.
YOU MAKE PERFORMANCE POSSIBLE
You’ll find our graduates around the globe with careers as artist and event managers, arts marketers, costume designers and makers, filmmakers, lighting designers and operators, music publishers, producers, production managers, prop makers, scriptwriters, set designers and builders, sound designers, engineers and mixers, stage managers and then some.
6 7 COME TOGETHER At the risk of stating the obvious, you The UK is lucky to have some fi ne It’s about empathy, a sense of active During your fi rst term as an undergraduate, you’ll can’t do performing arts on your performing arts institutions. But so far partnership, contributing, supporting, be asked to work in a team of people from own. Ensemble or solo, performances as we know, no other small, specialised and learning to be a considerate leader. different courses to create a project of your own are almost always the result of a institution teaches the breadth and Encouraging a non-competitive, team effort. depth of performance and production collegial ethos in a competitive sector. devising. So be warned – we’ll get you disciplines that we do. collaborating from the off! So we put collaboration, understanding It makes you better able to deal and community at the centre of Collaborating and working together is with it, a more agile thinker, a better what we do. great. It helps you grow as a person. colleague. We’re talking about a You get to understand the whole of the range of knowledge here. Generosity performance and production process of spirit. And respect for each other. and everyone’s role in it. Performers and performance makers.
8 9 This is where you’re going to perform There are three universities and It’s a fun place to be. And has or make performance happen. more than 50,000 students from over more bars, pubs, clubs, eateries, So what’s Liverpool like as a city for 100 countries. cinemas, live music, art and performing arts students and a entertainment venues than you could place to live? By most standards, it’s small. reasonably need. It’s your stage – and we’re at the heart of it: Everything in the centre – where “There isn’t a major venue in the city that doesn’t It’s a beautiful and historic city. we are – is within walking Liverpool’s waterfront is a World benefit from your graduates’ skills.” Combining fine Victorian architecture distance. There’s lots of good Heritage Site. The city has experienced with some stunning modern student accommodation, and costs a real renaissance in recent years JOE ANDERSON OBE buildings. It has a great buzz about it. are lower than elsewhere in the and it’s now one of the UK’s top arts, Mayor of Liverpool And a unique character. Colourful, UK (particularly London). tourist and student cities. witty, welcoming and diverse. THIS IS YOUR STAGE
10 11 A while ago, Liverpool was European A favourite fi lm industry location. A Capital of Culture. But it’s been invested digital and design city. A festival city. in culture for a long time. For its A rock’n’roll city – Paul McCartney own sake and as part of the economy. is one of our co-founders. Let’s give you a taster. It’s full-on for music, drama, art and Major theatres – fi ve. Premier League poetry. Rich in culture professionally football clubs – two. Cathedrals – two. and in the community. And within easy Philharmonic Orchestras – one. reach of North Wales, the Lancashire Pubs called ‘The Philharmonic’ – one. coast, the Lake District and Manchester.
More museums, galleries and listed Richness and diversity equals work. buildings than any UK city outside of Networking and socialising for creative London. A UNESCO City of Music. people, generating original thinking The Guinness Book of Records’ ‘World and new ideas. Having a good time Capital of Pop’. while you’re learning your craft. IN A CITY WHERE CULTURE IS CAPITAL
In 2015, in Rough Guides’ ‘Make the Most of Your Time on Earth’, Liverpool’s nightlife was No.3 in its list of ‘50 Things to Do Before You Die’ – ahead of the Great Wall of China and the Taj Mahal.
12 13 ‘ONE OF THE BEST PERFORMING ARTS SCHOOLS IN
THE WORLD’ SIR PAUL McCARTNEY Lead Patron
14 15 WE’RE LOOKING FOR BELIEVERS AND ACHIEVERS
This shouldn’t surprise you. If you’re Production funding is available, both planning a career in the performing arts, before and after graduation, and As well as our permanent full- you need to believe in yourself, in business training is built into our and part-time staff, we welcome the industry and what you can achieve. programmes. more than 160 different And we’ll do all we can to help you. What will help you achieve and do visiting professionals, across Our hands-on, purposeful, practical, more, maybe, than you ever thought all disciplines, every year. project-based approach to learning is possible, is the daily business designed to build your confidence of working with and learning from as well as your knowledge and skills. professionals, practised in their craft. You’ll be encouraged to do your own thing. Stage independent productions. You get to explore and discover where Set trends, not follow them. Create you – and the sector – are going new work and start-up businesses. and keep ahead of the curve. The finale of ‘Red and Black’, our collaboration with theatre company Slung Low: a devised piece of original immersive theatre on an epic scale.
16 17 When Stephen Fry was doing a masterclass here, he spoke about getting the balance right, explaining that the aim is to set audiences on fire, but not be consumed by your own fire in the process. We’re all for that.
WORKING EIGHT DAYS A WEEK We talk a lot about doing what you love And this only works if you’re prepared and are good at doing. And we expect to commit, work hard, go a step enthusiasm and that much over-used beyond. You need a healthy work-life word ‘passion’ about what you want balance, but the work you’re to do in the performing arts. preparing for is rarely nine-to-five.
But make no mistake, for all our We don’t pressure you. We don’t practical, reality-based, getting you work look for perfection. But we do want to and sustaining it attitudes, we are a develop your theoretical knowledge, skills and craft-based institution, with your crafts, skills and professionalism. very high standards. It’s not difficult to figure. If you can We aim to teach and instil discipline enjoy your work, express yourself, feel and rigorous thinking in our students, appreciated and learn every day, then as well as the joy of performing work really does become a pleasure. and making performance possible.
18 19 MAKING A PRODUCTION OF IT
We have great courses. Great teachers. These house a 400-seat auditorium, All these facilities are high-spec. All are But what about the place? The a studio theatre, fi lm, TV and dance industry standard. It’s not always Over the course of the year, we buildings? The resources? The kit? studios, six recording studios, recording easy to keep up. But we’re supported stage more than 50 performances, Let us tell you about them. and live sound kit, practice rooms, by sponsors and manufacturers. ranging from dance to musicals, rehearsal and performance spaces. We’re in two, Grade II listed buildings. And on average, we invest around costume drama, gigs and festivals, Formerly, the Liverpool Institute for As well as a management suite, scenic £500,000 annually to update equipment and anything else that’s dreamt up. Boys (Paul McCartney’s and George workshop, costume and wardrobe and/or improve the learning Harrison’s old school), and the department, broadcast audio, ICT and environment. So by the time you get Liverpool College of Art (where offl ine workstations. And our canteen here, it’s likely to be better still. John Lennon studied). and bar, which frequently get taken over.
Our multi-camera ultra-high defi nition TV studio, post-production and digital facilities were installed in 2019.
20 21 Our students and alumni have a great record of entrepreneurship, supported by such funds as: The First Year Out Fund, The Graduate Business Development Fund, The Show Fund, The Show Fund: Edinburgh, and The Sponsorship Fund.
THE SHOW AND THE BUSINESS
There’s a reason it’s called ‘show While you’re here, you’ll get practical Funding comes from various sources business’. The show’s the bit above support, and opportunities for funding. competitively tendered for. And the water. The business is the The student-run Student Events over the years, student and graduate bit paddling frantically below it. Board, for instance, not only organises enterprise has benefited to the tune events and entertainments, but of hundreds of thousands of pounds. 76% of people in the creative and provides help for people staging their performing arts are self-employed. own shows. Many have gone on to It’s the business of show business. 84% of businesses in the sector The Edinburgh Festival Fringe. All part of the training. Helping to get employ four people or less. You need you work. And keep you in work. to know how to set up and run your Graduates, too, can benefit from own business. So we teach business practical and financial support for skills across all the disciplines. new and growing enterprises.
22 23 YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE
The cliché is that your time at uni qualifications, our teaching staff are It’s about building bounce and should be among the best times of qualified by their own professional resilience. We’re well acquainted with Our Student Support service offers support for undergraduates, your life (and we hope it will be). But it practice. They know how it feels and the demands and insecurities of postgraduates, care leavers and disabled students. And additional can also be a challenging time and can guide you from the start through creative people and creative work. We services are provided in collaboration with Liverpool John Moores not without its difficulties. So support to graduation and beyond. know and understand and can is a big part of our culture. help you, because we’ve been there. University, our validating body. If you need any advice or support We also have an experienced, before coming here, please talk to us. It comes from good teaching and specialist Student Support team, Being away from home and friends, personal tutors. (We’re fascinated with providing confidential, personal, putting yourself out there, can be scary, teaching and learning, and always emotional, health, mental health and especially if you’re from overseas. learning ourselves). As well as their disability support. But here, you’ll be welcomed, cared for and supported.
24 25 Our Acting graduate Madeline Appiah, who starred as Agnes in Sky’s In The Long Run, is pictured with her sitcom family. Image ©Sky UK Limited.
ALL TOGETHER NOW Come here, and you’ll be part of But wherever you come from, you’ll Our graduates host students on a community of people who often be joining a ready-made, nationally and placements and employ them on live become friends, colleagues and internationally connected network projects and there’s an active online mentors before and after graduation, of people who can help you throughout alumni community, posting news of career-long – even lifelong. your career. productions, concerts, job opportunities The performing arts are like that. and reunions. You’ll get to work with people who’ll We have people here in every recognise and respect your training So as you can imagine, while you can performing arts discipline, and from and qualifications. Be invited to regular graduate, you never really leave. every continent. Around 25% of ‘See Me Now’ events, where former our students come from overseas and students share their experiences and between them, represent more than to masterclasses, where alumni 40 nationalities. and other professionals share their hard-won knowledge.
26 27 ACADEMY AWARDS CO-PRODUCER OF BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR NOMINEE (2019) ARTIST & MANAGER AWARDS MANAGER OF THE YEAR (2017) ASSOCIATION OF LIGHTING DESIGNERS MICHAEL NORTHEN BURSARY WINNERS 2007, 2012, 2015, 2017 & 2018 BAFTAS DIALOGUE EDITOR, BEST SHORT FILM NOMINATED, WINNER (2017) BEST SOUND NOMINEE (2016) BAFTA SCHOLARSHIP WINNER 2015, 2017 & 2019 BBC YOUNG DANCER WINNER, STREET DANCE FINAL (2019) BRIT AWARDS CO-WRITER OF BRITISH SINGLE WINNER (2017) BRITISH PRODUCER OF THE YEAR NOMINEE (2016) CRITICS’ CHOICE NOMINEE (2016) BROADWAYWORLD APPLAUDED, UK/WEST END AWARDS BEST DIRECTION OF A NEW PRODUCTION WINNER (2016) CINEMA AUDIO SOCIETY AWARDS BEST TV MOVIE OR MINI-SERIES WINNER (2017) EMMY AWARDS OUTSTANDING SOUND EDITING FOR A LIMITED SERIES, MOVIE OR SPECIAL WINNER (2019) GRAMMYS MIX ENGINEER, BEST LATIN POP ALBUM AND AWARDED WINNER (2017) KNIGHT OF ILLUMINATION AWARDS CONCERT TOURING & EVENTS ARENA WINNER (2018) LATIN GRAMMYS MIX ENGINEER, BEST CONTEMPORARY POP VOCAL ALBUM WINNER (2016) LAURENCE OLIVIER AWARDS BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MUSICAL NOMINEE (2016 & 2017) PRODUCERS OF BEST NEW COMEDY NOMINEE (2016) DIRECTOR OF BEST REVIVAL NOMINEES (2009 & 2013) BEST MUSICAL REVIVAL NOMINEES (2008 & 2010) HEAD OF PRODUCTION WITH THE PRODUCERS OF BEST ENTERTAINMENT WINNER (2013) LIFE! THEATRE AWARDS (SINGAPORE) BEST ACTOR WINNER (2008 & 2012) THE LINBURY PRIZE FOR STAGE DESIGN 9 FINALISTS IN 10 YEARS, OVERALL WINNER (2015) MTV EUROPE MUSIC AWARDS Awards aren’t everything. Nobody knows better than you – and your peers, BEST UK AND IRELAND NEW ACT (2008) MUSIC PRODUCERS GUILD AWARDS BREAKTHROUGH ENGINEER OF pals and audiences – how good your THE YEAR WINNER (2020) SELF PRODUCING ARTIST OF THE YEAR WINNER (2017) MUSIC WEEK’S 30 UNDER performance or production was. What was great. What you’d rather forget. 30 2013, 2014 & 2015 MUSICIANS BENEVOLENT FUND SONGWRITING AWARD WINNERS 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008 And what you could have done better. & 2011 NATIONAL ENCORE THEATRE AWARDS THEATRE MANAGER OF THE YEAR (2012 & 2013) NATIONAL But they’re nice to have. The approval TELEVISION AWARDS BEST NEWCOMER NOMINEE (2019) NORWEGIAN GRAMMYS BEST COUNTRY ALBUM and, sometimes, even the admiration of your peers, critics and judges. Our (2019) BEST POP GROUP ALBUM (2015) BEST NEWCOMER (2012) BEST FEMALE ARTIST (2004) OFF WEST END students and graduates – and we’re ( ) ( ) proud of this – have garnered well over AWARDS BEST COSTUME DESIGN WINNER 2020 BEST SET DESIGNER WINNER 2017 SKY ONE’S GOT TO 100 of the ones that matter. DANCE FINALISTS (2011) SMA STAGE MANAGEMENT AWARDS STAGE MANAGEMENT INDIVIDUAL WINNER
Here are just a few of them. (2016) SWEDISH GRAMMYS BEST POP ALBUM (2015) THE STAGE 100 4 LISTED IN 2020 THE STAGE DEBUT AWARDS BEST DESIGNER NOMINEE (2018) BEST CREATIVE WEST END DEBUT WINNER (2019) THEATRE AWARDS UK BEST DESIGN WINNERS (2012 & 2018) TONY AWARDS BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A PLAY NOMINEE
28 (2014) TPI MONITOR ENGINEER OF THE YEAR WINNERS 2011 & 2014 UK FESTIVAL AWARDS FINALISTS 2016 Sound We’re proud to be a supporting act
Prospectus Brit Trust.indd 3 16/04/2020 07:05 Prospectus Brit Trust.indd 2 16/04/2020 07:05 REPRESENTING THE BRITISH MAKE THE SOUND THAT RECORDED MUSIC INDUSTRY The BPI is the trade association for British record companies and currently looks after the interests of over 400 members - representing 85% of UK music sales.
The British music market is recognised throughout the world as a rich source of musical styles and new talent. The industry’s continued success is dependent on investment in education and career development. The BRIT Trust is the charitable arm of the BPI established in 1989 with its mission statement ‘to encourage young people in the exploration and pursuit of educational, cultural or therapeutic benefits emanating from music’. The Trust celebrated its 30th Anniversary in 2019. It relies entirely on donations from the music industry and its charitable events, including the annual BRIT Awards. The BPI/BRIT Trust is proud to be associated with the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and supports its commitment to the training of talented and motivated individuals in the arts. Visit our websites for more industry facts and figures and careers information: bpi.co.uk • brittrust.co.uk
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#43459 - LIPA AD V3.indd 1 01/05/2020 13:52 Our Acting courses focus on you. We want you to be an independent, innovative practitioner able to tackle diverse performance styles across live and digital platforms. You are not just an actor, but also an artist, someone capable of initiating and contributing to the creative process. It’s an approach that creates industry-ready performers, as evidenced by our high rates of graduate representation, 96% in 2019 and 100% in 2018. ACTING
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AN INDIVIDUAL APPROACH TO TRAINING
There is no such thing as a typical LIPA actor. We want you to be yourself and work in a way that you want to Our graduates perform across work. Here, you experience different multiple platforms: theatre, TV, film, methodologies from different radio, immersive productions, practitioners, including Constantin gaming and digital. They also work Stanislavski, Michael Chekhov and as writers, directors, producers, Sanford Meisner. You discover which musical directors, casting directors, ones suit you and use those to create teachers and founders of their an individual process of working. own production companies.
NEW WORK MAKE THINGS HAPPEN, YOURSELF “When I met LIPA students, You learn at the forefront of I was struck by their innovation by performing and creating We empower you to create commitment to continual new work with industry professionals. employment for yourself and others You develop your inventiveness by by giving you the skills and experience improvement to develop devising original performances with to produce your own creations. their craft.” critically acclaimed theatre and Those skills are both creative: writing, production companies. You also work directing, filmmaking and producing WOODY HARRELSON with some of the sector’s brightest and practical: business, entrepreneurial Actor, writer, director, producer directors, writers and producers. and project management. For further course details please visit: lipa.ac.uk
36 37 Theatre can have lasting social impact and we want you to create meaningful drama for, with and by different communities. With a focus on facilitation and direction, you’ll develop cross-sector versatility. Our highly practical courses enable you to collaborate with community groups, charities and the voluntary sector as you learn.
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LEADERSHIP SKILLS
As a facilitator, we’ll give you the skills, experience and confidence to be able to walk into any room, with any group Our graduates work in theatre outreach of people, evaluate their needs and departments, prisons/probation run a successful workshop. Once you’ve service, and within the education, youth got people working together, as a and social work sectors. Many have director, you’ll be able to guide them, established their own successful as you develop their ideas into a community theatre organisations and meaningful performance. freelance careers.
REAL PROJECTS, REAL ARTS PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENT, REAL OUTCOMES “It was a pleasure to work with You leave with the skills and knowledge such an engaged and engaging We have contacts with over 50 to follow the career path of your bunch of students. Their energy local community and educational choice. As well as your experience as organisations. The work you a versatile theatre practitioner, you and skill will stand them in undertake within the field, as part also have the practical skills (funding the best stead for their futures.” of your learning, is not hypothetical. applications, project management, These projects are not just about entrepreneurial) to create your own ADRIAN JACKSON assessment. They have real outcomes. project or company and work as Creator and Director of Cardboard Citizens a freelancer. For further course details please visit: lipa.ac.uk
40 41 We train you not just to be a dancer, but to be a dance artist; technically strong in a variety of styles without losing what makes you unique as a performer. You work in a supportive community, where your creativity is encouraged and developed. During your learning, the discipline and etiquette expected of a professional becomes second nature, making you industry ready. DANCE
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Our dance graduates perform all HEALTHY DANCER over the world. They’re working with renowned dance companies and We want to ensure you are as fit and independent choreographers. You’ll see healthy as possible throughout your them performing in musicals and other career. At the start of your time with us, dance shows in the West End and in we will give you a physical diagnostic. touring and international productions. We assess your body, its strengths and Many have appeared in music videos, weaknesses. You then learn how to in films and on television. Many go on apply this knowledge to your training to work as choreographers, while to prevent injury, while making weak a number have also established their areas stronger. own companies.
INDUSTRY CONTACT CREATIVITY “LIPA is the real deal. Dance You have regular and meaningful You gain the skills, experience and students hone their strengths dialogue with the professional dance confidence to contribute to the with budding music producers, world throughout your time here. We creative process, making you a more run masterclasses with expert industry rounded dancer able to work easily writers and artists making this practitioners; Wired Aerial Theatre and with choreographers and directors. establishment completely unique.” Boy Blue lead specialist performance The ability to improvise, problem modules; guest choreographers devise solve and create phrases is developed GARY LLOYD scenes for your public performances in our choreography classes and Choreographer and Founder, Managing and dance agencies visit to stage sessions with visiting choreographers. Director of Boss Talent Entertainment mock auditions. You can explore this creativity further For further course details please visit: by collaborating with other students on lipa.ac.uk independent student productions. 44 45 Our highly practical courses enable you to develop and hone your skills by working on our extensive programme of public performances of dance, drama and music. You create your own pathway that matches your ambitions as you curate a compelling CV and portfolio. It’s an approach that produces award-winning graduates (Knight of Illumination, The Stage Debut and Linbury Prize) working in theatre, music, fi lm and TV and events. DESIGN / TECHNOLOGY
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VERSATILITY You’ll find our graduates working as set You develop the variety of skills needed and costume designers and makers; for a portfolio career by getting a solid lighting designers, programmers and grounding in a range of techniques. operators; sound designers and You initially experience all the options operators; production managers; stage before you decide where to specialise. managers, video content creators for This approach gives you a greater live performances and prop and scenic understanding of different roles and constructors across theatre, TV and how they work together. film, music and events.
INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIPS REALISED PRODUCTIONS “I’ve worked with LIPA students You experience different ways of You will leave with a portfolio, CV of and graduates. One of them has working as you collaborate with some work and credits from fully realised, even joined our team. She has of the industry’s most distinctive not hypothetical, productions. In companies (recently this has included some cases, you will have experienced proved beyond doubt that LIPA Slung Low and Gecko), devising the responsibility of working as a can deliver.” and staging inventive new work for designer, stage manager or creative traditional, experimental and technician alongside visiting PATRICK WOODROFFE site-specific performance spaces. professional practitioners. Renowned lighting designer; awarded OBE and Royal Designer for Industry For further course details please visit: lipa.ac.uk
48 49 Our unique fi lmmaking, scriptwriting and digital arts course prepares innovative creatives and technicians for the opportunities new technology offers. A rigorous multi-disciplined foundation creates versatile practitioners capable of crafting exceptional content for fi lm, TV, theatre, concert and online audiences. FILMMAKING
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BLENDED LEARNING
After experiencing all three pathways (Film and TV Production, Script and Story Development and Emerging Technology and Digital Arts), you Launched in 2019, we expect specialise in your chosen fi eld, graduates will be able to work in but continue to develop important many roles, ranging from fi lmmaker complementary skills. With our or writer to video artist, in the TV, approach of a major and minor area fi lm, virtual and augmented reality of study, a fi lmmaker, for example, industries. Our graduates are who’s previously focused on also likely to be in demand, where the technical aspects, can study organisations and businesses want scriptwriting to develop their sense to engage with immersive events of narrative. and use of public spaces.
FACILITIES A PERFORMING ARTS ENVIRONMENT “This is the sort of forward-thinking You’ll train using a wide variety of course I would encourage for equipment working in single- and As a production-focused institution, students wishing to acquire the multi-camera ultra-high defi nition( UHD) there are plenty of opportunities for you environments. Our live TV studio to explore your ideas and enrich your skills necessary to realise their and related post-production and digital portfolio with work on projects and imagination on screen.” facilities were installed in late 2019 performances. Alongside our extensive after consultation with key industry schedule of public performances, there JON DRISCOLL players. The set-up aims to closely is a rich programme of independent Olivier Award-winning projection designer replicate those of the companies you student productions, which we actively aspire to work at when you graduate. encourage and support. For further course details please visit: lipa.ac.uk
52 53 You may know exactly what you want to do, or maybe you are still unsure about your future career. Our courses help you explore the opportunities that the performing arts industries offer, so you leave us confi dent that you have the skills, the experience and the knowledge to make career choices that fulfi l you. From creative leaders to enterprising administrators, our courses can help you fi nd your role in our industry. MANAGEMENT
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Our graduates are working in senior BUSINESS SKILLS positions at some of the world’s leading music, entertainment and We provide an in-depth understanding theatre companies. Others have of business, management, decision- set up their own businesses covering making and marketing. Our approach event management, theatre and to delivering these fundamental skills film production, tour management, enables you to work across the production management, artist performing arts (including broadcasting, representation, promotions, publishing, film, the recording industry and social video production and social media networks) and other industries. media management.
PRODUCTION FOCUSED FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES PERFORMING ARTS “I developed the foundation for ENVIRONMENT Yes, we have industry links, but producing during my time what sets us apart is that many of there. The Management degree You learn the theory, create a business our high-profile contacts are our own plan and are then given the freedom graduates. Having had such a great was an invaluable tool to me. to manage it as a real project. Working time here themselves, they can’t wait I genuinely didn’t think there was with other students: performers, to return to help the next generation anything else out there like it. designers and technicians, you gain of managers by giving masterclasses, And I still don’t.” ‘on the job’ experience, contacts and placement opportunities and confidence as you train. sometimes, jobs. LYNETTE HOWELL TAYLOR Oscar-nominated producer and LIPA Management graduate For further course details please visit: lipa.ac.uk
56 57 Our practice-based, industry-focused courses allow you to discover what excites you and then build your learning around that. Through continuous feedback from expert, industry-experienced tutors, we support you as you work to achieve your aspirations. Underpinned by a thorough understanding of music theory, you leave as an educated musician able to make decisions to take control of your career. MUSIC
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CULTURE OF CREATIVITY You’ll find our graduates achieving success as solo artists and in You experiment and develop your craft bands; supporting world famous acts in different styles and genres as as songwriters, backing singers and you work within an eclectic, culturally instrumentalists, working as session diverse community of international musicians, music producers, music musicians. Throughout the courses, managers, composers for film, you share your work with your peers, TV and video games and as musical supporting, inspiring and driving each directors and in bands for musical other to improve. theatre productions.
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE PERFORMANCES AND SHOWCASES “There’s absolutely nothing like Our courses prepare you for LIPA in this country. It’s a professional life. You take elements Within LIPA there are twice weekly genuine incubator of creativity from your learning to create projects gig nights; frequent visits from A&R reflecting your ambitions. We professionals; collaborations with for future players of the music encourage you to take responsibility lighting, sound, filmmaking and design industry because graduates for you own pathway, but provide students on filmed performances, leave with instantly applicable you with continual guidance. Your including our music festival The 2ube and viable skill sets.” songs, demos and productions are Xtra – which is streamed live; pit bands shared, workshopped and evaluated. for drama and dance productions Rehearsals and performances are and numerous independent student MARK RONSON observed and feedback is given. You productions. Then there’s Liverpool, GRAMMY Award-winning producer, get guidance and support at every one of the UK’s most varied and musician and DJ For further course details please visit: stage, continually refining your skills. exciting music scenes. lipa.ac.uk
60 61 Acknowledged by the sound industry as one of the UK’s leading sound training programmes, our course marries science and art to take a wide view of what working with sound means. This produces highly versatile award-winning (GRAMMYs, BAFTAs and Oscars) audio professionals, who work across the entire audio industry: recorded sound, live sound, fi lm and TV, gaming and emergent technology.
SOUND TECHNOLOGY
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BREADTH WITH DEPTH
Boundaries between roles and sectors are constantly moving. Many skills Our graduates are in prominent are now interchangeable between live audio roles across the world. They’re sound and studio recording; sound working in live sound for gigs, for film, TV and games and broadcast theatres and events. In recording sound. That’s why you won’t specialise studios as producers, engineers until your final year. This not only and mixers with some of the biggest- gives you the opportunity to discover selling artists in the world. Many which specialism is the right one for are working in sound for film and you, but also allows you to learn a wide television as well as video game range of skills in enough detail to be audio and in broadcast engineering able to apply them to your chosen field. and audio mastering.
CONNECT ADAPT “LIPA graduates, I’ve had the Yes, you need to know the craft, skills Nobody knows how the industry will pleasure of working with, have and tools to be an effective professional, look in ten or even five years’ time, but never failed to impress me but if you can’t work with people, the core principles of sound won’t you’ll find it difficult to get any material change. If you have a strong theoretical with their knowledge, relentless to work with. Here, you apply your knowledge and understand the why as enthusiasm, and eagerness newly learned skills to practical projects well as the how you’ll be able to adapt to learn the tricks of the trade.” and performances with students from and work out a way to apply your all disciplines. This experience gives skills to new situations, equipment TREVOR HORN you an understanding of the function and software. and pressures each different role Music producer and songwriter, winner of faces. It allows you to better understand the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music your role and how best to facilitate a For further course details please visit: connection between performer/creator lipa.ac.uk and audience. 64 65 WITH A Our degree programmes are awarded by CHANGES TO COURSES AND GUIDE INFORMATION
The following message contains some very important information. Please read it before you use this guide. This guide was printed in the spring of 2020 and annual course fact fi les will be produced in LITTLE HELP May 2020 for September 2021 entry and May 2021 for September 2022 entry. Together these contain information on the courses that Our teaching received the top Gold rating in the LIPA intends to run for students who are planning to start university Outstanding people, who either perform or make performance possible or a combination of both, are our Government’s Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) in either the autumn of 2021 or autumn 2022. LIPA has made every Patrons and Companions. They have spent time with our staff and students, sharing their expertise. Awards, which were announced in June 2017. Based effort to ensure that the information provided is both helpful and on the evidence available, the TEF Panel judged that accurate as at the date of publication. However, some changes, for example to courses, facilities or fees may become necessary due to LIPA delivers consistently outstanding teaching, legitimate staffi ng, fi nancial, regulatory and academic reasons. LIPA learning and outcomes for its students. It is of the PATRONS will endeavour at all times to keep any changes to a minimum and highest quality found in the UK. to keep students informed appropriately. LEAD PATRON: Sir Paul McCartney Joan Armatrading / Sir Richard Branson / Dame Judi Dench / Glyn Johns / Mark Knopfl er / Dame Gillian Lynne / Sir Cameron Mackintosh / Robert North / Lady Olivier / Sir Alan Parker / Monica Parker / Lord David Puttnam / Alpana Sengupta / Carly Simon / Wayne Sleep / Vangelis / Toyah Willcox Various industry bodies accredit our courses – these are detailed in our accompanying course fact fi les. COMPANIONS
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