LONDON COLLEGE OF MUSIC LONDON COLLEGE OF MUSIC www.tvu.ac.uk LONDON COLLEGE OF MUSIC PROSPECTUS 2010 Thames Valley University St Mary’s Road Ealing London W5 5RF Tel: 0800 036 8888 Int: +44 (0)20 8579 5000 the power to perform... 1 | www.tvu.ac.uk/music 2 | www.tvu.ac.uk/music 01 TEL: 0800 036 8888 [email protected] Get to know us Straight to the courses Our Values and Mission 04 Music Performance and Get to know us 06 Composition 20 LCM History 10 Music - Performance and Composition 30 What you can expect at LCM 12 Popular Music 38 Facilities 13 Traditional Sikh Music 42 Accommodation 16 Music Technology 46 International Students 17 Music Technology 48 Support for learning 18 Performing Arts 54 Performing Arts 58 What to do next Postgraduate 64 Admissions 85 Music 66 English Language Competence 85 Music Technology 74 Applications 86 Research 78 Finance 86 Ealing 88 Reading 90 Creativity Facilitated by imagination, innovation and challenge. Quality Underpinned by excellent practical, professional and academic learning. Inclusiveness E nabling and empowering all to access education that meets their needs. Diversity Celebrated through a rich social and ethnic mix. Integrity Fulfilled by honesty and openness, working for the public good. 4 | www.tvu.ac.uk/music our mission 01 Come and see us Our mission Open Events provide you with an As a multi-sector institution with opportunity to find out more about national and international reach, LCM and our courses. Lecturers are TVU is dedicated to providing a available to discuss course options personalised education that satisfies with you and expert advisers are on the demands of students, employers hand to discuss a variety of issues such and stakeholders alike. as accommodation and finance. Creativity By bringing further and higher For Open Day dates, please visit www.tvu.ac.uk/open education to the heart of a diverse constituency through inspirational We strongly advise that you book a teaching, research and work-based place where you will also be kept up-to- learning underpinned by inclusive date with any additional dates planned. values, we enable students of all Although our Open Events are the backgrounds to thrive and succeed. best way to find out about our courses, if you are unable to attend one, campus tours are available throughout the year. Booking is essential, so please contact us on 0800 036 8888 or e-mail Quality [email protected] to arrange your visit. Inclusiveness Enabling and empowering all to access education that meets their needs. Diversity Celebrated through a rich social and ethnic mix. Integrity 0800 036 8888 | 5 As part of the student community The Faculty’s academic staff are within the Faculty of the Arts at creative and talented subject TVU, our students are treated as a specialists, who continue to pursue developing professional from the very their professional interests as well as beginning. We aim to foster creative developing their teaching, research and talent in a vibrant creative environment enterprise skills. The recent national which mirrors the fast developing Research Assessment Exercise has world of work in the Cultural and rated the University’s research as Creative industries (one of the fastest among the top 15 most improved in developing industry sectors in the UK). England. Recent staff professional As well as specialising in a particular successes include performances on subject or subjects, students have BBC Radio 3 and an exhibition at the the opportunity to work with other Museum of Modern Art in New York. creative disciplines across the Faculty Recent student successes are equally and also benefit from our strong links impressive, and include interactive with industry. We have a track record sculpture work shown at Bloomberg of working closely with local, regional New Contemporaries, top prizes at and national Cultural and Creative the London Photographic Awards and industries across all our subject Nikon Discovery Awards, a medal from The Faculty of the disciplines. We are in an excellent the Worshipful Company of Musicians, position to help students progress to and awards from London Fashion Arts at Thames Valley successful employment, whether their Week, the Design and Art Directors’ University brings career ambition is to work as a solo Association and from the Art Directors’ creative artist or to work within a multi- Club of New York. together the School of disciplinary creative team. Apart from the core curriculum within Art and Design, the the Faculty there are many extra curricular activities. These include School of Media and regular concerts given by London London College of Music College of Music students, lectures by visiting professionals and opportunities in an interdisciplinary to engage in volunteering, event community that allows management and peer mentoring. all our students to Rosy Crehan flourish. All our courses Dean of the Faculty of Arts are developed to prepare students for a wide variety of careers in the Cultural and Creative Industries. welcome 6 | www.tvu.ac.uk/music welcome 01 L CM enjoys an international LCM is located in West London, where reputation for radical, exciting and it dominates education in Music and ground-breaking courses. The Performing Arts, whilst enjoying very scale and breadth of activity offers strong relationships with key partners unique opportunities for students to including Tech Music Schools, Raj encounter other students and staff Academy and the Creative Academy. with a real diversity of experience. The College sits within the Faculty Our dedicated teachers possess a of Arts at Thames Valley University wealth of professional experience, (TVU), which itself provides yet further much of which is on the world stage. opportunities for students to work A broad array of visiting staff from alongside their peers in the School across the industry enables us to bring of Art and Design and the School of further expertise, strengthening the Media, to broaden and concentrate cutting-edge activity which typifies their experience. As part of TVU, LCM our approach to education. It is this also enjoys a reputation for the “best context which enables our students to graduate employment record” (Times become particularly attractive within Higher Education, July 2008). As such, the industry. our graduates can be found across the The London College industry, both within and beyond the UK. I would like to take this opportunity to of Music (LCM) is wish you well in your studies and I look the largest specialist forward to meeting you here at LCM. Music and Performing Dr Christopher Batchelor Arts institution in the Head of LCM UK. We are especially proud of the breadth and quality of courses at LCM, including Performance and Composition, Popular Music Performance, Classical Sikh Music Performance, Music Technology, Music Management and welcome Performing Arts. 0800 036 8888 | 7 meet the team Principal Staff Rosy Crehan Dr David Henson Dean of Faculty of the Arts Performing Arts Dr Christopher Batchelor Andrew McKinney Head of LCM Popular Music Sara Raybould Prof Francis Pott Deputy Head of LCM Composition Sara Clethero Peter Rudnick Voice Performance/Composition Peter Cook Prof Surinder Singh Junior College Raj Academy Peter Cook Nicholas Thompson Jazz Wind, Brass and Percussion Lisa Crew Stéphane Tran Ngoc Performing Arts Strings Jolyon Forward Andrew Zolinsky Music Technology Keyboard John Gummery Music Technology 8 | www.tvu.ac.uk/music meet meet the team 01 the team Postgraduate Staff Teaching Staff Collaborative Partners Andy East Paul Ayres Creative Academy Music Industry Management Paul Borg George Kirkham and Artist Development Antonio Castells-Delgado Court Theatre Justin Paterson Phillipe Castermane June Abbott Audio Technology Kim Chandler Kingston College Simon Rigby Steve D’Agostino Grant Shalks Music Performance Andy Evans Laura McCormack Simon Zargorski-Thomas Matthew Foster Raj Academy Record Production Dr Martin Glover Prof Surinder Singh Mike Howlett Tech Music Schools Katia Isakoff Francis Seriau Jasvir Kaur Richard Liggins Iain MacKenzie Anna McCready Andrew McKinney Megg Nicol Misha Nikolic Charles Norton Paul Ramshaw Dr Paul Robinson Iain Scott Paul Scott Dr Robert Sholl Paul Smith Sam Sutton John Wheatcroft Larry Whelan Pip Williams Svetlana Vassileva 0800 036 8888 | 9 established over 10 | www.tvu.ac.uk/music history of LCM 01 In 1944 His Majesty’s College of Arms L CM’s 120th birthday in 2007 provided The LCM was granted a patent of Armorial Bearings a fitting opportunity to celebrate founded in 1887 at to the College, and this coat of arms and publicise the many unrivalled is still used as a watermark on LCM opportunities which LCM presents to its Great Marlborough certificates and diplomas. Subsequent students. Over the last two years LCM Street, initially as an Directors included Dr Holmes and has been delighted to welcome several Dr Reginald Hunt, and a Junior new Honorary Professors, including Dr examining body. A Department was established in 1959. Karl Jenkins OBE (Composer), Robin Millar (Record Producer), Jon Treleaven The arrival of Dr William Lloyd teaching element was (Operatic Tenor and former student), Webber as Director in 1964 heralded Rick Wakeman, John Cameron, Wing created quite early in its the beginning of the development Commander Dr Stuart Stirling, Courtney of a more significant profile for the history which provided Pine and Julian Lloyd-Webber. These LCM. He introduced full-time study distinguished professors will be working programmes in line with the other facilities for part-time with students at LCM in the future. music conservatoires and gradually education. Since then, phased out part-time activities. Despite L CM also has many famous alumni, the local examinations restrictions with space at Great including opera singers Rosalind Malborough Street, the College found Sutherland and John Treleaven. Others system has continued an identity under his leadership and found success in different niches provided a setting where students within the profession, such as Edward and developed further, could flourish.