Performing Arts and Music

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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 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.

For pianists, guitarists, bassists and drummers, this Rhythm Section course will examine and develop a repertoire of standard tunes and arrangements for you to develop your performance skills and confidence within the rhythm section.

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.

'Richmond Jazz School' is an integral part of the music department at Richmond and Hillcroft Adult Community College. RHACC is one of the UK's major providers of Jazz Education for Adults offering courses throughout the year for all levels of ability and aspiration. Each Saturday more than 250 students already attend the Richmond Jazz School and they give regular performances in the area.The Richmond Summer Jazz School is as an intensive studying experience. This year it is to run over five days and is open for all instrumentalists and vocalists. This course is for people who love playing...

On this exciting practical course, you will further explore all aspects of your jazz saxophone playing. You will be comfortable playing some jazz standards and wish to develop in a supportive but challenging environment at a more advanced level.