RCM Springboard: Half-Term Collaborative Composition Course

Dates
28 October 2024 - 30 October 2024

Venue
Inner Parry Room

Tickets

All participants must meet one of the RCM Sparks eligibility criteria found in the ’Free places and tickets’ drop-down menu on the RCM Sparks web page.

Email sparks@rcm.ac.uk to apply for this course.

A young girl plays the cello, smiling

28 October 2024 - 30 October 2024

Venue
Inner Parry Room

Tickets

All participants must meet one of the RCM Sparks eligibility criteria found in the ’Free places and tickets’ drop-down menu on the RCM Sparks web page.

Email sparks@rcm.ac.uk to apply for this course.

This course will include hearing the RCM Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in rehearsal, providing inspiration and insight into ways in which composers convey stories and emotion into music, before composing our own piece over three days. 

RCM Springboard is a FREE yearlong course allowing participants to expand their musical knowledge, deepen their creativity and develop their own musical personalities through inspiring, practical workshops.

Each project starts with different stimuli, such as a theme or structure from an epic piece of music, photographs, films, fascinating scales used in gamelan or exciting rhythms in Latin percussion. Each workshop will result in a creative, original group piece of music, eventually working towards participants inventing individual compositions towards the end of the course.

There is a minimum commitment of approximately one workshop per month with slightly longer courses in some of the school holiday breaks.

Find out more on the RCM Springboard web page.

For instrumentalists, singers, composers or songwriters from any musical background in school Years 9 and 10 (ages 14–15)

28-30 October, 10.30am–4pm 

Run by RCM Sparks

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Location Transport Food & drink Access

Royal College of Music
Prince Consort Road
London SW7 2BS

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   South Kensington: 0.5 miles
   Gloucester Road: 0.6 miles
   High Street Kensington: 0.8 miles

   Paddington: 1.5 miles
   Victoria: 2 miles

   Santander Cycles docking station and public cycle locking facilities adjacent to RCM

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The RCM provides light refreshments throughout the year. There is also a range of restaurants, cafés and other establishments nearby, most adjacent to South Kensington station.

RCM Café

The RCM Café serves barista-style coffees, sandwiches, snacks, salads and hot food. There is also access to outside seating in our new 1851 courtyard.

Opening hours: 

Monday-Friday: 8.30am-4.30pm

Saturday: 8.30am-4.30pm (term time only)

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The main entrance to the RCM has eight steps up from the pavement and two inside the main doors. A lift is available for visitors with limited mobility. The lift is built into the smaller staircase to the left of the main entrance steps. There is an intercom button on the control panel, which can be seen and reached easily from the street. On arrival, press the buzzer to notify a member of RCM staff, who will come out to meet you and operate the lift for you.

All our event venues can be accessed by visitors with limited mobility via the lift at the main entrance.

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