BMus (Hons) GRNCM Open Day | 25 September 2018 Professor Nicholas Reyland Head of Undergraduate Programmes Dr Michelle Phillips GRNCM Co-Ordinator and Deputy Head of Undergraduate Programmes
Welcome - Why are you here? And where are you going? - A tale of two Last Night RNCM saxophones… - Our exceptional degree - Comprehensive creativity: design of BMus (Hons) - Artistic development, academic studies - Perform and be performed: opportunities - Work with the best: visiting luminaries - Professional experience scheme, professional engagements, residencies & tours, annual themes - Wellbeing & enjoyment - GRNCM and 3-year degree: Dr Michelle Phillips - Questions
A tale of two Last Night RNCM saxes - Jess Gillam’s Milhaud (2018) - Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s Panic (1994)
Our exceptional degree Diversity of opportunities to • World-class • perform and be performed conservatoire Masterclasses, guest artists, • Unique degree, • residencies, tours designed to prepare the best 21st-century Professional experience • musicians placements, engagements, and creative projects Spaces and facilities • A healthy, happy musical • Major venue & concert • community programme Richness & flexibility •
Comprehensive creativity Principal Study Artistic Academic Development Studies
Course design - Years 1 & 2: Pass and progress - Years 3 & 4: Count towards degree result
Artistic development Examples of recent Examples of recent Professional Placements: Creative Projects: Arts Management – Bridgewater Hall Performing Bach Concert Manager, Hallé Youth RNCM Photographic Society Orchestra Administration, Music Composition for Video Games Action International Charity Opera Gala Night Development Music for Health at RMCH Community – Camerata in the Community, Foden’s Youth Band, Streetwise Opera, Theatre in Prisons, Love Music Trust Music & Wellbeing: Music for Health, Music and Dementia, Music in Hospitals and Care Pedagogy: Bolton Music Service, National Children’s Orchestra, RNCM Junior Department
Academic studies - Music, Culture and Performance I & II - Theory & Musicianship I & II - Performance Studies - Research (and Practical ) electives including… - The Concerto, Beethoven’s Symphonies, Puccini Operas, Film Music, TV Music, Castrati, Wagner’s Ring , Music & Ideology, Philosophy, Applied Music Psychology, Music Therapy, Music Acoustics, Music under the Third Reich, Music and Narrative, Music Perception, Composition and Performance, Shakespeare and Music, Crossover, Metal, Stravinsky - Chamber Music, Composing for Media, Opera Scenes, Conducting, Composing and Arranging, Studio Mixing, Jazz Improvisation, Pedagogy, Physicality in Performance - Choose your own pathway, interactions & innovations - Study management support
Perform and be performed Symphony Orchestra Concert Orchestra Sinfonietta Brass Band Big Band Brand New Orchestra Chamber Orchestra String Orchestra Wind Orchestra Session Orchestra Plus: Brass, Wind, Baroque, Jazz, Harp, Guitar, Percussion & Saxophone ensembles, and the Composers’ Lab & New ensembles, which perform student composers’ new works
Perform and be performed
Work with the best - Masterclasses, workshops, residencies - Recent visitors include: Sir Mark Elder (The Hallé) • Jac van Steen (Ulster Orchestra) • David Hill (BBC Singers) • Garry Walker (Rheinische • Philharmonie Koblenz) Henning Kraggerud (Arctic Philharmonic • Orchestra) Markus Stenz (Netherlands Radio • Philharmonic Orchestra) Ruth Rogers (London Mozart Players) • Composers Krzysztof Penderecki, • Tansy Davies, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Thea Musgrave, Kaija Saariaho
Professional experience scheme - RNCM’s prestigious, international partnership programme - Over 400 opportunities each year for students to participate in auditions, rehearsals, education projects and public performances in the UK and Mainland Europe - Long-established partnerships with the Hallé, BBC Philharmonic and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestras, Manchester Camerata, Black Dyke Band and Opera North - More recently: the Academy of Ancient Music, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, European Chamber Academy, Foden’s Band, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Netherlands Wind Ensemble, KorVest, and the Orchestra of Opera North
Professional engagements - Over 350 performance opportunities per year - Paid public performance engagements - Venues from St Martin-in-the-Fields and Manchester City FC - Recital, chamber music, soloists - Concert series in Manchester - Whitworth Gallery - Buxton Festival - Weddings, corporate events, popular music - Concerto opportunities
Residencies and tours
Annual themes Sounds Original? əˈr ɪ d ʒɪ n(ə)l, ɒ ˈr ɪ d ʒɪ n(ə)l/ adjective: original 1. not dependent on other people's ideas; inventive or novel. "a subtle and original thinker"
Wellbeing and enjoyment
Modules Credits Year 1 Intensive Bachelor of Principal Study Performance or Comp 2 40 Music (3-year) course Principal Study Techniques 2 20 Small Ensembles 1 10 Small Ensembles 2 10 Artist Development 1 10 Artist Development 2 10 Year 3 Music, Culture and Performance 1 20 Principal Study Performance or Comp 4 60 Theory and Musicianship 1 20 Creative Project 20 Total 140 Research Electives 20 Year 2 Independent Research Project 20 Principal Study Performance or Comp 3 40 Practical or Performance elective 10 Principal Study Techniques 3 20 Performance Studies 10 Performing Contemporary Music 10 Total 140 Music, Culture and Performance 2 20 Theory and Musicianship 2 20 Practical or Performance elective 10 Placement 20 Total 140 - 3 year BMus students take all credits included on the 4 year BMus, except Principal Study 1 and Principal Study Techniques 1. - These are factored out as you will have the ABRSM Diploma (or equivalent) on entry, which replaces these modules.
GRNCM: Modules Credits Year 1 Graduate Diploma Principal Study Performance or 40 Composition 1 of the RNCM Principal Study Techniques I 20 (the ‘joint course’) Small Ensembles 1 10 Artist Development 1 10 Total 80 Year 2 - Subset of RNCM BMus modules Principal Study Performance or 40 - Other modules taken at the Composition 2 Principal Study Techniques 2 20 University of Manchester Small Ensembles 2 10 - One hour per week one-to-one Artist Development 2 10 lesson Total 80 Year 3 - Participation in all ensembles, Principal Study Performance or 40 masterclasses, competitions, Composition 3 composition events, etc. Principal Study Techniques 3 20 Professional Placement 20 - Greater credit weighting in final Total 80 year when you have finished you Year 4 MusB at University of Manchester Principal Study Performance or 60 Composition 4 Practical or Performance Elective 10 Practical or Performance Elective 10 Creative Project 20 Total 100
Sounds original? • World-class • Diversity of opportunities conservatoire to perform and be performed • Unique degree, designed to • Masterclasses, guest prepare the best artists, residencies, tours 21 st -century • Professional experience musicians placements, • Spaces and engagements, and facilities creative projects • Major venue & • A healthy, happy musical concert community programme • Richness & flexibility
Any questions? www.rncm.ac.uk
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