If you’re a musician looking to further develop your skills, knowledge, and understanding to get into higher education or music employment then this is the right course for you. Offering flexibility, industry insights, and practical music skills, this course will give you everything you need to achieve your dreams.
Studying a BTEC in Music (Performing) will build on your existing knowledge in key areas including performance skills, composition and listening skills, analytical and presentation skills, and careers in the music industry. The course involves written, analytic, practical, and social skills ranging from performance to self-expression. Units cover Practical Music Theory & Harmony, Professional Practice in the Music Industry, Ensemble Music Performance, and Composing Music. You’ll also be free to use our industry standard recording studio. Plus, visits to local venues and London’s West End will take you beyond the campus.
Possible career paths
Your Assessment
Studying A Level Dance will see you learn about leading practitioners in the dance field including the Rambert Dance Company.
You’ll also develop your choreographic ability with solo and group pieces and learn repertoire in groups to perform.
Throughout the course, you’ll learn to enhance your analytical abilities to examine professional dance works and an area of dance history for written exams.
Visits to the theatre are essential to support the development of your dance analysis and you will watch live professional dance works by leading touring companies such as Rambert, Motionhouse or Matthew Bourne.
We will also visit the Move It conference in March to support industry development and progression.
Possible career paths
Your Assessment
Submissions are now open for The Bill Cashmore Award: One Act Play Prize!
The Bill Cashmore Award is presented by the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and is a Young Lyric new playwriting award for young writers aged 18-30. Young Lyric is funded to support and provide opportunities for children and young people aged up to 30 years through programmes, workshops and activities.
The Bill Cashmore Award prize offers a paid opportunity for two new one-act plays to be professionally produced at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. The prize is for writers aged 18 – 30 to submit new scripts for selection by an industry-leading panel of the Lyric’s Artistic Associates. The two winning plays will run as a double bill and will be performed by the Lyric’s SPRINGBOARD trainee actors in Autumn 2025.
PARAMETERS OF THE AWARD
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 23 December 2024 at 12pm
See FAQs for more details on our criteria.
This course is designed for students wanting to pursue a career as an employed or self-employed Makeup Artist, providing hair and makeup services in the media, theatre, fashion and photographic industries.
You’ll develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to plan for and provide make up applications, hair preparations services, fashion and editorial make up with extended knowledge in face and body art. This will enable you to produce an overall total look and participate in competition work.
Those aged 19 or over may not need to pay fees depending on their circumstances.
