Michael Rose in teaching mode

Fees

The course fee includes lunch and other refreshments on on both days, but not Saturday dinner or overnight accommodation.

Participant fee: £125
Concessions (students, senior citizens, registered disabled, jobseekers): £100
Observers: £75

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COURSE DETAILS


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Course Features

The courses offer several features in response to student comments:
  • Use of video
  • Concessionary price for students and unwaged
  • Three works to be studied
  • Additional individual baton technique sessions for less experienced students.

Course tutor: Michael Rose

Michael is one of the country’s most experienced teachers of conducting, having for many years worked as co-director, with George Hurst, of the Conducting Course of Canford Summer School of Music. He now takes individual pupils and offers group sessions on the technique and art of conducting for teachers and students.

He covers subjects including aspects of baton technique and gesture, rehearsal technique, learning scores and getting to know the two featured works in depth. The style is friendly, informal and collaborative, offering practical advice in an undogmatic way.

Pianists to the course

Christopher White (OCC1 and 3) is a scholarship student the Royal Academy of Music, studying piano with Hamish Milne and conducting with Denise Ham. Upcoming projects include Mozart's Piano Concerto No 17, which is a featured work for OCC3.

Elizabeth French (OCC2 and 4) is a former Meaker Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music and the holder of the Frederic Jackson Memorial Prize. She has recorded music for the Channel Four Series 'Arrows of Desire', and performed all of Poulenc’s music for wind instruments and piano. With saxophonist Hannah Marcinowicz, she is a member of the Live Music Now! scheme.
 
Students help themselves to lunch at OCC3.

Course Timetable

Saturday
Tea and coffee available from 9.30.
10 a.m. Optional introductory session on baton technique, particularly aimed at new students.
10.30 Session 1
12.30 Lunch
1.30 Session 2
3.30 Tea
4.00 Session 3
6.00 Ends
7.00 Dinner reservation.

Sunday
Tea and coffee available from 9.00.
9.30 Session 1
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 Session 2
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Orchestral session 1
3.30 Tea and cake
4.00 Orchestral session 2
5.30 Course ends

Variations may be made to the timetable to accommodate specific requirements.

Michael and Michele

Sunday afternoon voluntary orchestra

Part of the weekend courses is a voluntary orchestra session where friends and family are welcome to join us to fill vacancies in the student ensemble. Volunteers have found it a very interesting and fun session. It runs from 2-5.30 p.m. on the Sunday of each course, with a break for tea and cake. If you would like to join us for one of these sessions, please contact us on 01234 714959 or click here to e-mail us.

Students working with the course pianist