Pro Corda North Music
Short course
In Wells and Cumbria
Description
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Type
Short course
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Location
Suitable for: 8-18 year old string players, pianists
Facilities
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Teachers and trainers (1)
Louise Lansdown
Course Director
Louise Lansdown has been a full-time viola louise lansdownand chamber music tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester since 2001, and holds part-time teaching positions at the University of Manchester and Junior RNCM. She has been involved with Pro Corda, a school for gifted young string players and pianists, held at Leiston Abbey in Suffolk, since 1999, teaching on the Intermediate, North and Junior Courses, and Directing the former since 2005.
Course programme
Course Content
PRO CORDA NORTH holds annual course each summer at Sedbergh School, Cumbria and Wells Cathedral School, Somerset. The idyllic and peaceful surroundings of both Schools have generated a great deal of interest in the course.
The course proves very popular with students who live in the North of England, the South West, the Midlands, and South Wales.
Sample Repertoire
- Bartok Music for Children
- Boyce Trio Sonata in D minor
- Brahms Sextet Op 18
- Hamburg String Quartets
- Haydn String Quartets: Op 20 No 4: Op 33 No 3: Op 33 No 6 Piano Trios
- Hewitt Jones Serenade
- Mozart String Quartets: K156: K171
Piano Quartet in G minor - Shostakovich String Quartet No 1
AUDITIONS
Auditions for the International Chamber Music Academy are held across the country at times throughout the year.
Pro Corda North Music