Graduate Composition Programme 2011-12
In the coming academic session graduate composition students would benefit from an enhanced provision of professional workshops for the performance of their compositions and a programme of seminars and study days with the contribution of distinguished guest speakers from outside King’s.
New doctoral students together with students in their second year of research will have the opportunity to join a new round of the ‘Composers Advanced Training Programme’, an innovative programme of doctoral training in composition, which -- in addition to the traditional one-to-one supervision system -- involves group discussion both of completed compositions and work in progress, thus providing a forum for the lively exchange of artistic views and cutting-edge cultural debate.
Students currently taking part in ‘Composers Advanced Training Programme’(funded by the Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation and the Radcliffe Trust) commented:
"Regular timetabled sessions have enabled us to interact and bounce creative ideas off each other and get invaluable feedback.
As a result of these seminars there is a genuine community of composers within the department and this is set to greatly enhance the pedagogical structure, which may otherwise be lacking.
The opportunity to present music in a semi-formal way to my peers has been invaluable.
The opportunity to present music in a semi-formal way to my peers has been invaluable.
Being exposed to the work of other fellow composers, in some cases closer to the later stages of PhD research, has provided me with a clearer perspective of what is required for successful submission.
I greatly welcomed such an informal forum for criticism and sharing my research.
In analyzing each other’s music we learn about our own and come across ideas we might not have had otherwise."
All M.Mus., CAMS and doctoral students will be invited to have a work for small ensemble rehearsed at a workshop and final year doctoral composers will have the possibility of having substantial works for medium size ensemble rehearsed. In addition to several weekends and a concert with the ensemble
Lontano conducted by Odaline de la Martinez (ranging from five to eleven players), we anticipate a workshop with a string quartet and another for the rehearsal of works for voice and instruments. Archival recordings of the works played on these occasions form an important part of students’ portfolios of composition.