Historical Performance
At Trinity Laban we believe that every student should take an active interest in informed performance. As Europe’s only conservatoire housed within a Baroque World Heritage Site, we are privileged to be able to offer focused opportunities for specialists alongside a range of period performance opportunities open to all our students. Whether performing on modern or specialist period instruments, we encourage all our instrumental students – together with their vocal counterparts – to explore the exciting repertoire and extraordinary sound worlds opened up by historically-informed interpretation.
Teaching
- You will receive individual and small group Principal Study
lessons from one or more of our internationally-renown period
performance specialists
- You will access a diverse range of departmental classes and
projects, each carefully designed to develop your technical skills
and repertoire knowledge. All performance studies classes are
practically-based and many culminate in public performances
Performance
- Ensemble performance opportunities are a regular feature of the
Department's activities, projects encompassing music from the
Middle Ages to the Classical period
- The Greenwich International Festival and Exhibition of Early
Music is an annual highlight, drawing audiences from across Europe
for three days of performances, showcases, demonstrations, and
masterclasses. Organised by Trinity Laban in partnership with The
Early Music Shop and the Greenwich Foundation, Trinity Laban's
students and staff play an integral part in the performance
programme of this major event, which in the last two years has
included a live broadcast by BBC Radio 3's Early Music Show
Collaboration
- Specialist period instrument performers are encouraged to
explore contemporary repertoire, developing and exploring their
technique through collaboration with composition students
- Modern instrument performers and singers are offered regular
opportunities to rehearse and perform historic repertoire, often in
collaboration with period instrument specialists, coached and
directed by our expert teachers and visiting artists
Instruments
Trinity Laban has a large collection of historic instruments
available for loan, including shawms and crumhorns; renaissance and
baroque recorders, lutes and a theorbo; baroque flutes and oboes;
classical clarinets and bassoons; and a range of trumpets,
sackbuts, and cornetti. We are also privileged to have access to
the Dartington International Summer School collection of keyboard
instruments and viols, which complement our own harpsichords,
clavichord, fortepiano and chamber organs.
Graduates
Our graduates are renowned for their creative skills,
versatility and professionalism. Many perform regularly with
leading period instrument ensembles including Les Arts Florissants,
the European Union Baroque Orchestra, Ex Cathedra, Fretwork, The
Kings Consort, the Rose Consort of Viols, the Orchestra of the Age
of Enlightenment and The Sixteen.
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