Acoustic Guitar - Improvers
Acoustic Guitar Improvers is a new course aimed at bridging the gap between beginners and intermediate guitarists. You will learn more complex techniques such as fingerstyle, blues and strumming patterns - expanding your musical knowledge and skills whilst building a repertoire of iconic songs.
Please bring an acoustic guitar or contact us if you need assistance sourcing an instrument.
Acoustic Guitar Beginners
Have you always wanted to play guitar? Join us at Hillcroft in Surbiton for an unforgettable experience exploring our Guitar courses. Come and play some tunes in a creative and relaxed environment. This workshop is aimed at would-be guitarists who have always wanted to get to grips with the instrument.
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.
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.
Drama - How to Get a Job in Acting
The TV, Film and Theatre industries are difficult to break into, and maintain progress in. Many rely on completing Drama School or extended networking to get their foot through the door. This course is designed to help you understand how the industry works and teach you alternative ways to break in to it yourself, by getting acting work.
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...
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...
Jazz Masterclass - Beginners Saxophone
Experienced saxophone teacher Tony Woods (BA hons, GDLM, LGSM) will be happy to start you off on your saxophone journey.
Music Appreciation
Join Janet Oates and other classical music lovers to explore in detail the music of a series of composers. Each term we will look at a different composer, through their major and lesser known works, and discuss their place in music repertoire today.
Music For Wellbeing
Feeling stressed? Would you like to express your feelings and ideas through composing music? This is a wellbeing course that aimed at relieving stress and emotional challenges that many may face. This is a course designed to explore the therapeutic benefits of making music, to help you relax and get in touch with your creativity, exploring music for pleasure as well as to improve speech.
Parkshot Singers
Your course is run in the form of a choir with instruction on relevant topics where you will cover a range of repertoire from several centuries and different cultures.
Piano - Stage 3
This course is the next level for students who have finished the post beginner?s level 2 and want to mature in playing the instrument.
AIM: It aims to bring out the originality of the learner?s playing. Aims also at improving technique, dynamics and effective use of the sustaining pedal in performance.
Piano 1 - Beginners
This course is designed for absolute beginners but is equally suitable for students who wish to consolidate the basic principles of piano playing and general musicianship. We will soon be playing some simple tunes and developing your enjoyment of playing the piano in a fun and creative environment, alongside the group.
Piano 2 - Post Beginners
This course will provide a stimulating and creative environment to further develop your piano playing.
On the course you should expect to play some simple tunes and develop your enjoyment of playing the piano in a fun and creative environment. We may explore some aspects of Grade One Piano and Theory.
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.
Richmond Open Orchestra
The Open Orchestra is a non-auditioned instrumental ensemble playing music from multiple genres from classical to popular music. The ensemble is open to all instrument groups: strings, woodwind, bgrass, percussion, piano (or keyboards), guitars. The ability to read music from at least grade 3 upwards is required. This course will provide an opportunity to play a musical instrument in a group, in the company of like-minded people.
If you own a musical instrument, whether you play it regularly or maybe have not played for a while, this could be for you. Perhaps you yearn for that...
RJS - 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.
RJS - Easter Jazz School
Easter Jazz is now an established part of Richmond Jazz School offering participants the opportunity to join in an intensive jazz experience.
Run over three days this is a great opportunity to draw on the expertise and resources of our nationally recognised team of tutors. The sessions cover all areas of jazz for instrumentalists and vocalists alike, giving the chance to learn and jam together.
RJS - 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.
RJS - Friday Summer Intensive
This immersive all day jazz course is a continuation and taster course for the longer 3 week Richmond Jazz School 1 Year Course and will provide an environment for you to develop and review your jazz musicianship in a creative and support group.
Open to all instrumentalists and vocalists this practical course will focus on the in depth exploration of a course repertoire of 3 or 4 pieces and weave all aspects of jazz development into the sessions. Technical work and objectives will be developed alongside rhythmic work and the continued exploration and application of jazz harmony to...
RJS - 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
RJS - 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...
RJS - Jazz Funk Workshop
This exciting jazz ensemble is for all instrumentalists and vocalists and will explore Jazz, Funk and soul repertoire within a practical jazz ensemble format.
RJS - 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...
RJS - 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...