Acoustic Guitar Blues and Beyond Workshop
Your course will provide you with the skills, techniques and musical understanding to accompany songs, solo and expand in traditional blues forms and more contemporary styles, giving you a lot of one-to-one attention. This group can accommodate a wide range of levels and abilities and is very supportive of your learning while also presenting a wide range of challenges.
Acoustic Guitar Taster (Hillcroft Campus, Surbiton)
Have you always wanted to play guitar? Join us at Hillcroft in Surbiton to explore our new Tuesday music courses. This free taster will provide an opportunity to play some tunes in a creative and relaxed environment. The tasters are aimed at guitarists at all levels of beginner, post beginner and intermediate.
Acting and Performing Skills for Budding Actors
Is acting something you've always wanted to do, but never found the time for? Come and learn the fine art of self-discovery and reflection on life, through drama games and play. This course is designed to awaken your performance spirit, show you what's involved in being an actor and immerse you in a learning community of like-minded souls.
Beginners Piano by Ear for Wellbeing
This is a course that takes away the stress of reading music or studying the theory of it. It is maintained that the mark of a good musician is actually to respond in his aural senses to music sound and is able to play it on an instrument.
Starting at a zero level, the learner is introduced to easy and catchy popular music ranging from classical, pop, jazz to some popular music jingles on radio and television. The individual is guided and taught to play and enjoy without any reading or examination.
Come to the Opera
Devising your Own One Person Show
Are you passionate about a specific subject? Are you interested in writing your own material for stage? Have you ever wanted to perform in front of an audience? Imagine writing a piece of theatre that reflects your ideas and showcases your talent and acting abilities. You will learn how to take a subject you're passionate about and adapt it from the page to the stage.
Drama for Confidence
This beginners course consists of classes that combine acting, body, movement, voice and speech in order to improve your confidence and wellbeing. The teaching is practical, incorporating some basic theory. Throughout the course there will be opportunities to explore the dynamics of self and the emergent feelings, which we can use in the space as a means to give self-management and improvement of wellbeing.
We will explore the creative principles and techniques in acting, and how to get behind a role. We will be using improvisation and devising to create our own work, or expanding...
Easter Drama School Theatre Project (Hillcroft Campus, Surbiton)
Come and brush up your acting skills, and be part of this intensive community drama project, where you will increase your confidence and self-esteem in a supportive adult-only workshop setting. Develop your knowledge and skills in creative thinking, devising, performing and /or writing for performance, and create a piece of collaborative theatre or performance in just three days.
Foundation Acting Techniques for Performance
Come and be part of Richmond Drama School, where you will increase your confidence and self-esteem in a supportive adult-only workshop setting. Based in our beautiful theatre, this course will allow you to spend one day per week building your skills and knowledge through learning performance techniques derived from and used by different theatre practitioners. You will build skills in using the breath, voice, movement, the gaze, levels and resistance. You will develop and apply these techniques in creative improvisation scenarios and devising projects. You will work with a text as well...
From Classical to Jazz
Are you a classical musician who wants to play jazz and understand jazz theory? Would you like to join Richmond Jazz School's thriving community of adult learner musicians? This course is for instrumentalists and singers from a classical background who want to develop their skills as they learn about the theory of jazz rhythm, harmony and improvisation, and then to apply it by making music together in a supportive workshop setting. This course is taught by Meredith White, the classically-trained jazz pianist, composer and songwriter.
How to be Brilliant at Public Speaking
You will learn how to develop confidence in your oral presentations. You will begin to explore how posture, body language, non-verbal cues can help you achieve this. You will also create your own personal style and do some brainstorming to develop your skills further.
Jazz Dance - Beginners
This is a fun exercise class centred around jazz dance.Beginner friendly class aimed to provide you with an energetic dance class at a steady pace learning jazz dance style combinations and choreography.
Learn about the various styles of Jazz dance through exploration of choreography and warm up combinations of isolation and coordination to improve your flexibility, stamina and musicality.
Jazz Masterclass - Advanced Ensemble
This Jazz Ensemble class will examine and develop a broad repertoire of standard and modern jazz tunes and arrangements for you to develop your performance skills and confidences.
This group will work at an advanced level.
Jazz Masterclass - Beginners Saxophone
Experienced saxophone teacher Tony Woods (BA hons, GDLM, LGSM) will be happy to start you off on your saxophone journey.
Jazz Masterclass - Ensemble 1
This Jazz Ensemble class will examine and develop a repertoire of standard tunes and arrangements for you to develop your performance skills and confidence within the ensemble.
This group will work at a lower intermediate level.
Jazz Masterclass - Guitar Advanced
Your course will support and further explore all aspects of your jazz guitar playing and you will be comfortable playing jazz standards and wish to further develop in a supportive but challenging environment at a more advanced level. This course is run at the Jazz School at our Richmond site in London
Jazz Masterclass - Guitar Intermediate
Come and join our Saturday Jazz School. If you are a guitarist who is already competent in other styles, or has recently started to play jazz, this course will equip you with the basic technical skills and musical knowledge for playing jazz on the guitar.
The course is "hands-on", designed to help you develop your guitar technique and expand your knowledge of chords, scales, arpeggios and melodic patterns on the guitar. From the start you will learn to play jazz tunes - their chord progressions and melodies - and begin to improvise on them. You will receive guidance in developing...
Jazz Masterclass - Jazz Funk Workshop
This exciting new jazz ensemble is for all instrumentalists and vocalists and will explore Jazz, Funk and soul repertoire within a practical jazz ensemble format.
Jazz Masterclass - Jazz Piano
Are you a classical musician who wants to play jazz piano and understand jazz theory? Would you like to expand and deepen your piano playing skills and learn in a practical way about the basics of jazz harmony, rhythm and improvisation at the piano? Join our adult jazz learning community and develop your skills and confidence while you gain knowledge and experience and make music together in a supportive workshop setting. This course is taught by Meredith White, the inspiring jazz pianist, composer and songwriter.
Jazz Masterclass - Jazz Vocal Advanced
Join our adult jazz learning community and develop your skills and confidence while you increase your knowledge and experience and make music together in a supportive workshop setting. This exciting course is for advanced singing students to develop ideas for song arrangements and improve their mini sets and performances. This course is taught by Meredith White, the inspiring jazz pianist, vocalist, composer and songwriter. Meredith provides crucial insight into the practical experience of performing, and is able to offer support in creating lead sheets and parts for your accompanying...
Jazz Masterclass - Jazz Vocal Performance
Your course led by Linley Weir will further develop your jazz singing in a practical, fun and creative environment which will offer you much opportunity to perform. Your individual style will be nurtured and developed throughout the course.This course will take place onsite at Parkshot. Risk assessments on all our singing classes are undertaken prior to the start of the course and our teachers have been trained to follow and implement control measures. The main measures to mitigate risk on our singing courses are the requirement that learners are to be seated in allocated seats in order...
Jazz Masterclass - Jazz Workshop 1
These Jazz Workshop sessions will help you to develop a repertoire of standard jazz tunes and arrangements for you to develop your performance skills at all levels. We will learn the tunes and look at how to improvise on your instrument and to communicate as an ensemble.
This course is taught by Julian Costello.
Jazz Masterclass - Jazz Workshop 2
These Jazz Workshop sessions will help you to develop a repertoire of standard jazz tunes and arrangements for you to develop your performance skills at all levels. We will learn the tunes and look at how to improvise on your instrument and to communicate as an ensemble.
Jazz Masterclass - Jazz Workshop 3
This course is being delivered in the Music Room by Julian Costello. We will look at a repertoire of Jazz standards throughout the term including a Blues, Bossa Nova Swing tune etc and perform together in an informal atmosphere of mutual encouragement where tunes will be discussed and analyzed.
Jazz Masterclass - Performance Ensemble 1
This Jazz Ensemble class will examine and develop a repertoire of standard tunes and arrangements for you to develop your performance skills and confidence within the ensemble.
This group will work at an upper intermediate level.
