SUMMER SEASON OF WORKSHOPS 2011
at HILL HOUSE SCHOOL
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Sunday July 17th
ENSEMBLE SINGING MASTERCLASS
with
STUART BARR
(maximum 30 places)
£50.00
Sunday August 7th
ACTING THROUGH SONG & AUDITION MASTERCLASS
with
STUART BARR
(maximum 30 places)
£50.00
Mon 15th Aug - Wed 17th Aug
GLEE & P & O CRUISES AUDITION WORKSHOP
with
KIRSTY EDWARDS-LONGHURST & JERRY ROBINSON
(3 Days)
(maximum 25 Junior & 25 Senior places)
£90.00
Mon 22th August
MUSIC TECHNOLOGY DAY
with
PAUL MELLORS
(6 places)
£40.00
THE WORKSHOPS
Sunday July 17th
ENSEMBLE SINGING MASTERCLASS
with Stuart Barr
11.00 - 5.30
(maximum 30 places)
£50.00
Ages 14 - Adult
"Join Stuart for a fun but intensive day on getting the very best out of Ensemble Singing. We'll go through a tour of technique to get the voice working at its peak, and look at producing different sounds for different styles of music. The focus will then shift onto the music and performance itself, as we move onto turning what's been learned into practice."
Stuart Barr
Musical Director & Singing Coach
Stuart has a dual career as a freelance Musical Director & Singing Coach working in the West End, TV and in education. He is President of the British Voice Association (09-10).
He studied at the Purcell School of Music for 8 years, before going to Cambridge University with a Choral Scholarship, followed by two years as a conductor and singer at the Royal College of Music.
As a singing coach, he runs a busy private teaching studio and coaches at the Royal Academy of Music and taught at the Actors' Centre for 10 years. He has worked extensively for the BBC, with programmes such as R2's Voice of Musical Theatre Competition and BBC Talent's Be A Musical Theatre Performer competition, and the children's TV opera The Little Prince. He adjudicates and mentors for the BBC Performing Arts Fund’s Musical Theatre Bursaries, which gives £150k in funding annually to musical theatre students, and is National Selection Judge again this year for Choir of the Year.
He has musically-directed, assisted, supervised and/or orchestrated over 20 shows in the West End and internationally, including productions of Blood Brothers, Rent, The Rat Pack, Passion, Jesus Christ Superstar, La Cava, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever and Zipp! 100 Musicals in 100 minutes. His work as a concert conductor spans a similarly diverse field, including bringing the music of Broadway to the Ekaterinburg Philharmonic in Russia, and bringing Symphonic Abba to Sweden amongst much else.
His musical direction also includes Dame Shirley Bassey’s autumn ’09 TV performances on The Graham Norton Show, Paul O’Grady Show and Strictly Come Dancing, and also conducting at Carnegie Hall for her performance at the Rainforest Foundation Gala. He is also MD for the veteran classic actor John Standing’s Nöel Coward cabaret, which ran at the National Theatre and the Carlyle Cafe, New York. Other recent projects include Artistic and Musical Director for London’s St George’s Day Celebrations in Trafalgar Square, celebrating London’s great heritage of Music Hall.
As current President of the British Voice Association, he heads an organisation dedicated to furthering knowledge of vocal health and research, and that brings together the country’s top singing teachers, speech therapists and larynx surgeons. Stuart regularly writes and presents on vocal health, notably for Sing Up.
As well as his work within the profession, he produced the pioneering educational project Sing For Freedom, which brought together 130 children from 4 schools, Voce Chamber Choir, Queens' College Cambridge Choir and a gospel choir to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
Other community work includes being a Governor at the inner-city Wyvil Primary School.
He was recently elected an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (HonARAM).
Sunday August 7th
ACTING THROUGH SONG
with Stuart Barr
11.00 - 5.30
(maximum 30 places)
£50.00
Ages 14 - Adult
"This day is about getting the most out of your whole performance. Whilst technical singing work is important, in musical theatre being able to act through your song is the key to success. Stuart will take you through a variety of different approaches to be able to transport yourself and the audience into the world of your song."
Mon 15th Aug - Wed 17th Aug
GLEE & P & O CRUISES AUDITION WORKSHOP
with
KIRSTY EDWARDS-LONGHURST & JERRY ROBINSON
10.00 - 4.30
(3 Days)
(maximum 25 Junior & 25 Senior places)
£90.00
For 25 years Jerry Robinson has been the driving force behind the world renowned production shows aboard the P & O Cruise Liners.
This 3 Day workshop will include working through the audition process employed by P & O Cruises as well as a fantastic chance to show Jerry & Kirsty what you can do.
Kirsty Edwards-Longhurst is Jerry’s No 1 assistant and is responsible for taking many of the P & O rehearsals as well as their ever expanding portfolio of productions in the UK.
Over the 3 days we will work on material from one of Jerry & Kirsty’s new production shows, based on the TV Phenomenon GLEE.
Mon 22th August
MUSIC TECHNOLOGY DAY
with
PAUL MELLORS
10.00 - 5.00
(6 places)
£40.00
at 73 Thorne Road, Doncaster
Ages 14 - Adult
This 1 day workshop will give you hands on experience with the industry standard software PRO TOOLS 9 and the chance to use a C|24 Control Surface.
Throughout the day the students will have the chance to record each other’s performance (either vocal or instrumental). Every student will be able to take away a DEMO recording of themselves.
This workshop is aimed at people looking for an introduction to Music Tech and extended experience is not required.
