Vocal
For details on the Academy’s specialist postgraduate opera programme, see Royal Academy Opera.
The Academy’s Vocal Faculty offers intensive, full-time courses to prepare students for their professional careers in music. If you are considering taking up full-time vocal tuition, you are strongly advised to seek the advice of a qualified, experienced teacher.
John Mark Ainsley, Sir Thomas Allen, Barbara Bonney, Susan Bullock, Chevalier José Cura, Angelika Kirchschlager, Dame Felicity Lott, Dennis O'Neill and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Michael Chance CBE and Ann Murray DBE
The fine traditions of the Vocal Faculty are perpetuated by a new generation of eminent teachers, with comprehensive training which prepares students for their careers in opera and concert repertory. Apart from intensive vocal and technical study and associated disciplines, students enjoy regular repertoire coaching and specialist training in historical performance (including the critically-acclaimed Bach Cantata series, in collaboration with the Kohn Foundation) and new music.
The curriculum is enriched with very regular masterclasses and workshops given by outstanding international performers. The Postgraduate Vocal Studies Course incorporates a preparatory opera curriculum pathway, designed for students who demonstrate operatic potential at their audition but who would benefit froma period of consolidation in both vocal technique and stagecraft. These students may progress into Royal Academy Opera, subject to further audition.
In addition to core singing lessons, vocal coaching, language tuition, acting and movement classes, weekly individual and ensemble opera coaching and stage work classes prepare students for fully staged and costumed opera scenes, with a professional director. Those aiming for a career in solo concert and or chamber choir work can takea specialist recital/concert curriculum pathway. In addition to weekly singing lessons and coachings, there is a comprehensive programme of language and song classes as well as specialist classes in oratorio, historically-aware performance and contemporary music.
The Academy welcomes applications from prospective undergraduate singers who clearly demonstrate professional potential and stamina allied to vocal, musical and intellectual maturity. Students have opportunities to sing in the Chamber Choir for oratorio performances, and in the chorus for Royal Academy Opera.
The members of Song Circle, who are selected by audition, record an annual CD and perform at the Academy and Wigmore Hall.
Open Day: 2012 dates will be made available when known. If you missed the 2011 open day, please do come along to any of our free public events, all of which can be found at www.ram.ac.uk/events
