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Introduction

 

It’s time to step to the front. Our vocal studies department is geared towards helping you define your artistic voice and forge your future. 

The possibilities of where you can take your voice are endless and our courses in vocal studies reflect that. We will nurture your individual talent, ensuring everything you do is underpinned by strong, reliable technique. You will have weekly classes including phonetics-based language classes, song classes, stagecraft, workshops, opera and performance tutorials, in addition to your individual vocal studies.  

Whether your focus is opera, song or choral repertoire, we have the expertise to prepare you for your professional journey. We work with you, the developing artist, ensuring you enter the professional world confident in your own strengths and abilities.

          Jennifer Hamilton, Head of Vocal Studies 

Auditions

Our audition process is designed to help us find out about your performance or composition style, interests, and personality. We want to assess whether you have the potential to benefit from our approach, and we aim to provide a positive and friendly atmosphere, allowing you to enjoy yourself.

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Courses

Undergraduate Courses

Join our community of global arts collaborators and creators for your undergraduate study. From classical to jazz and popular music, our wide selection of courses seek to redefine musical and performing excellence.

BMus (Hons) Music / Performance / Composition / Jazz

BMus (Hons) with Integrated Foundation Year

Postgraduate Courses

Lead the arts beyond convention with our postgraduate music courses, with pioneering master’s and diplomas allowing you to challenge musical convention and direct the spotlight.

Master of Music (MMus)

MA Music Education

MEd Music Education (Online)

MA Music Education and Performance

Artist Diploma

Graduate Diploma

Professional Diploma


Teaching & Performance Opportunities

Alongside working with our teachers, who have extensive international performance experience, you will regularly receive coaching from visiting artists through masterclasses and competitions. Recent guests include James Bowman CBE, Barbara Hannigan, James Gilchrist, Susan Bullock, Roger Vignoles, Patricia Bardon, Gidon Saks, Dame Felicity Palmer, Ubaldo Fabbri, Robert Alderson and Christopher Underwood, Nicky Spence and our current International Artist in Voice, Ailish Tynan. We also have an exciting scheme of masterclasses and performances in conjunction with the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme and are working with Welsh National Opera personnel in our Side-by-Side series. 

Performance opportunities are numerous. You are encouraged to give solo recitals, take part in internal and external competitions, sing in our many ensembles, and explore opera. Performance venues regularly available to you include the Old Royal Naval College Chapel, St Alfege Church in Greenwich, and Blackheath Halls. 


Opera

Each year, we present one opera production, along with three series of opera scenes. As we believe that opera performance skills are core for a range of genres, we offer classes and masterclasses to all vocal students in stagecraft, speech, diction and dialogue, physical expression, combat techniques and stylistic awareness. Our repertoire is wide-ranging and current. Recent productions have included Errollyn Wallen’s ‘Dido’s Ghost and Libby Larsen’s ‘Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. 


Ensembles

Performing in our many ensembles will ensure you develop an understanding of musical styles from Renaissance and Baroque to contemporary music. 

Our opera and music theatre productions provide exceptional ensemble experience, and our Chamber Choir, Chorus and specialist vocal ensemble Rubythroat provide outstanding training for the profession. You will also be encouraged to develop your own ensembles, collaborate with our keyboard students, and to work alongside small ensembles of instrumentalists from across our programmes of study. 

Find out more about Music Performance Opportunities. 


Chapel Choir

We are the world’s only specialist conservatoire with a collegiate chapel choir. The Old Royal Naval College Chapel and its Director of Music, Dr Ralph Allwood MBE, provide an ideal springboard if you wish to work in the UK’s cathedral or church choirs, or indeed follow other choral pathways.

We offer twelve Choral Scholarships annually in conjunction with the Dame Susan Morden Trust and the trustees of the Old Royal Naval College Chapel. 

Staff

Lead Faculty

Professorial Staff

  • Voice

    Austin Gunn
  • Voice

    Eamonn Mulhall
  • Voice

    Harry Sever
  • Voice

    Joan Rodgers
  • Voice

    Lynton Atkinson
  • Voice

    Mary Wiegold
  • Voice

    Neil Baker
  • Voice

    Panaretos Kyriatzidis
  • Voice

    Patricia Rozario
  • Voice

    Teresa Cahill
  • Visiting Artist in Choral Training

    Dominic Ellis-Peckham
  • German Language Coach

    Anna Miell
  • Vocal Coach

    Andrew Matthews-Owen
  • Vocal Coach

    Alistair Young
  • Visiting Artist in Voice

    Christopher Underwood
  • Visiting Artist in French Song and Performance Presentation

    Deborah Lea
  • Vocal Coach

    Dylan Perez
  • Accompanist and Repetiteur

    Paul Chilvers
  • Rianka Bouwmeester

    Vocal Coach

  • Vocal Coach

    Ricardo Gosalbo
  • Visiting Artist in Lieder

    Richard Jackson
  • Classical Singing

    Sarah Pring
  • Vocal Coach

    Sebastian Wybrew
  • Voice

    Sophie Grimmer
  • Visiting Artist in Voice

    Susan Bullock CBE

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