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Professional Skills and Development To prepare you for your future career, you will take a Professional Skills course focused on performance, entrepreneurial, and presentation skills, including writing skills ranging from concert reviewing and essay support through to CV and promotional materials. Classes in memorization techniques, sightsinging, and open chamber music coaching sessions will take place alongside classes on negotiating the music profession, presenting yourself, and effective research.
Joan Rodgers CBE
In Years 3 and 4 you will select a work-related learning placement, including gaining teaching experience, taking part in outreach projects, participating in Music for Health, or arts administration. You will also have the opportunity to work with experienced professionals including our professional partners such as Opera North, HallĂŠ, Manchester Camerata and our own RNCM Performance and Programming Team. You will also select specialised performance activities to enhance the range of profession-orientated skills in your professional portfolio. Options include opera excerpts, musical theatre, movement and dance, French Lieder, and Professional Experience Schemes.
Masterclasses RNCM singers took part in masterclasses with internationally-renowned guest artists including baritones Thomas Hampson and Roderick Williams, sopranos Christine Brewer and the RNCM’s International Chair in Singing Joan Rodgers CBE, tenor James Gilchrist, and mezzo-sopranos Sarah Connolly and Catherine Wyn-Rogers.