london college of music prospectus 2010

99 Pages·2009·3.9 MB·English

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
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the power
to perform...
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Tel: [phone]
[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
Music 66
Admissions 85
Music Technology 74
english language Competence 85
Research 78
Applications 86
Finance 86
ealing 88
Reading 90
C reativity
Facilitated by imagination, innovation and challenge.
Q uality

Underpinned by excellent practical, professional and academic learning.
I nclusiveness
enabling and empowering all to access education that meets their needs.
D iversity
C elebrated through a rich social and ethnic mix.
I ntegrity

Fulfilled by honesty and openness, working for the public good.
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our mission 01
Creativity
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.
By bringing further and higher
For Open Day dates, please visit
education to the heart of a diverse
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constituency through inspirational
Quality 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
backgrounds to thrive and succeed.
Although our Open events are the
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
[email protected] to arrange
your visit.
I nclusiveness
enabling and empowering all to access education that meets their needs.
D iversity
C elebrated through a rich social and ethnic mix.
Integrity
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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,
Arts at Thames Valley position to help students progress to and awards from london Fashion
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
School of Media and curricular activities. These include
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
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welcome 01
lCM 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.
of Music (LCM) is I would like to take this opportunity to
wish you well in your studies and I look
the largest specialist forward to meeting you here at lCM.
Music and Performing
Arts institution in the Dr Christopher Batchelor
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
Performing Arts.
welcome
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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
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the team
Postgraduate Staff Teaching Staff Collaborative Partners
Andy East Paul Ayres Creative Academy
Music Industry Management George Kirkham
Paul Borg
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
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