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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

• World-class

conservatoire

• Unique degree,

designed to prepare the best 21st-century musicians

• Spaces and facilities
• Major venue & concert

programme

• Diversity of opportunities to

perform and be performed

• Masterclasses, guest artists,

residencies, tours

• Professional experience

placements, engagements, and creative projects

• A healthy, happy musical

community

• Richness & flexibility

Comprehensive creativity

Principal Study Academic Studies Artistic Development

Course design

• Years 1 & 2: Pass and progress
• Years 3 & 4: Count towards degree result

Artistic development

Examples of recent Creative Projects: Performing Bach RNCM Photographic Society Composition for Video Games Opera Gala Night Music for Health at RMCH Examples of recent Professional Placements: Arts Management – Bridgewater Hall Concert Manager, Hallé Youth Orchestra Administration, Music Action International Charity Development 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
• f 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
• pportunities

Residencies and tours

Annual themes

Sounds Original? əˈrɪdʒɪn(ə)l,ɒˈrɪdʒɪn(ə)l/ adjective: original

• 1. not dependent on other people's ideas; inventive
• r novel. "a subtle and original thinker"

Wellbeing and enjoyment

Modules Credits Year 1 Principal Study Performance or Comp 2 40 Principal Study Techniques 2 Small Ensembles 1 Small Ensembles 2 Artist Development 1 Artist Development 2 Music, Culture and Performance 1 Theory and Musicianship 1 20 10 10 10 10 20 20 Total 140 Year 2 Principal Study Performance or Comp 3 40 Principal Study Techniques 3 20 Performing Contemporary Music Music, Culture and Performance 2 Theory and Musicianship 2 10 20 20 Practical or Performance elective 10 Placement 20 Total 140 Year 3 Principal Study Performance or Comp 4 60 Creative Project Research Electives Independent Research Project 20 20 20 Practical or Performance elective 10 Performance Studies 10 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.

Intensive Bachelor of Music (3-year) course

Modules Credits Year 1 Principal Study Performance or Composition 1 40 Principal Study Techniques I 20 Small Ensembles 1 10 Artist Development 1 10 Total 80 Year 2 Principal Study Performance or Composition 2 40 Principal Study Techniques 2 20 Small Ensembles 2 10 Artist Development 2 10 Total 80 Year 3 Principal Study Performance or Composition 3 40 Principal Study Techniques 3 20 Professional Placement 20 Total 80 Year 4 Principal Study Performance or Composition 4 60 Practical or Performance Elective 10 Practical or Performance Elective 10 Creative Project 20 Total 100

• Subset of RNCM BMus modules
• Other modules taken at the

University of Manchester

• One hour per week one-to-one

lesson

• Participation in all ensembles,

masterclasses, competitions, composition events, etc.

• Greater credit weighting in final

year when you have finished you MusB at University of Manchester

GRNCM: Graduate Diploma

• f the RNCM

(the ‘joint course’)

Sounds original?

• World-class

conservatoire

• Unique degree,

designed to prepare the best 21st-century musicians

• Spaces and

facilities

• Major venue &

concert programme

• Diversity of opportunities

to perform and be performed

• Masterclasses, guest

artists, residencies, tours

• Professional experience

placements, engagements, and creative projects

• A healthy, happy musical

community

• Richness & flexibility

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Any questions?