Classes & activities
Core Modules
Undergraduate students take weekly academic classes in addition to their principal study. The classes are designed to complement and add to every student’s creative development as performers.
For detailed information about Academic Studies, download the BMus course handbook.
BMus Core Modules, Years 1 and 2
-
Analytical Skills 1
-
Analytical Skills 2
-
Performing In Context 1
-
Performing In Context 2
-
Aural Skills 1
-
Aural Skills 2
-
Score Reading
-
Artist Development
BMus Elective Modules, Year 3 and 4
-
Analysis of Post-Tonal Music
-
Approaching the Great Luthiers
-
Aural Skills, Further
-
Baroque Performance on Historical Instruments
-
Baroque Performance on Historical Instruments, Advanced
-
Compositional Techniques of the Germanic Traditions c.1780-c.1880
-
Conducting, Advanced
-
Conducting, Intermediate
-
Contemporary Music Workshop
-
Crossing Cultural Frontiers
-
Free Composition for Performers
-
Free Composition for Performers, Advanced
-
Fugue
-
Listening to Mozart, Thinking about Mozart, Playing Mozart
-
Maestro: a History of Conducting through Film, Recordings and Marked Scores
-
Messiaen in Context
-
Methods in the Analysis of Tonal Music, Advanced
-
Mozart’s Operas
-
Musical Aesthetics and Criticism
-
Open Academy
-
Open Academy. Advanced
-
Performing Baroque Music (with a focus on Handel)
-
Performing Experimental Music
-
Repertoire Studies
-
Research Project
-
Silent Film Improvisation
-
Song Accompaniment
-
Studio Performance
-
Worldwide Repertoires
Department Classes
And Activities
Apart from weekly one-to-one lessons with your piano professor, all piano soloists have chamber music coaching and one-to-one lessons with Visiting Professors as well as public masterclasses.
Additionally, we offer extra classes and training specifically for pianists:
Early Keyboards - coaching on harpsichord and fortepiano
Coaching on harpsichord and fortepiano
Improvising to Film
Working in Multimedia: collaborating with visual artists and filmmakers
Working with Actors and the Spoken Word
Composition Classes
Writing Piano Transcriptions
Working with Jazz
Careers Advice for Pianists
Lieder Accompaniment
Discovery events
Discovery Events are the perfect way to find out more about the Academy and whether it’s the right place for you.
