Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is a

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and dance

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based in

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. It was formed in 2005 as a merger of two older institutions – Trinity College of Music and Laban Dance Centre. The conservatoire has

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and

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students based at three campuses in

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(Trinity),

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and

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(Laban).

Faculty of Music

History

Trinity College of Music was founded in central London in 1872 by

Henry George Bonavia Hunt Rev Henry George Bonavia Hunt FRSE FRAS FLS (1847–1917) was a British Anglican cleric and the founder of the Trinity College of Music in London. Life He was a British subject born on 30 July 1847 in Valletta, Malta, the son of William Hunt, ...

to improve the teaching of church music. The College began as the Church Choral Society, whose diverse activities included choral singing classes and teaching instruction in church music. Gladstone was an early supporter during these years. A year later, in 1873, the college became the College of Church Music, London. In 1876 the college was incorporated as the Trinity College London. Initially, only male students could attend and they had to be members of the

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. In 1881, the College moved to Mandeville Place off Wigmore Street in Central London, which remained its home for over a hundred years. The college took over various neighbouring buildings in Mandeville Place. These were finally united in 1922 with the addition of a Grecian portico, and substantial internal reconstruction to create a first floor concert hall and an impressive staircase. However, other parts of the college retained a complicated layout reflecting its history as three separate buildings. The building is now occupied by the

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. Trinity moved to its present home in Greenwich in 2001. The east wing of King Charles Court was constructed by John Webb as part of a rebuilding of

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; it was subsequently absorbed into the

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complex, designed in part by Sir Christopher Wren, which had later become part of the Royal Naval College (RNC). To make the buildings suitable for Trinity's use and remove the accretions of a century of RNC occupation required a substantial refurbishment programme. Work to provide new recital rooms revealed that the building's core incorporates masonry from the Tudor palace. The overall cost of the move to Greenwich was £17 million.

Junior Trinity

Many of the college's staff also teach at Junior Trinity, a Saturday music school for exceptional young musicians who are keen on pursuing a musical career. Junior Trinity offers instrumental and vocal tuition for children and young people ages 5–19, along with GCSE and A-Level courses in Music and Music Technology for older students. Many students of Junior Trinity often continue their musical studies at top conservatoires and universities across the country. Trinity was the first music college to create such a department, and many conservatoires have now followed in Trinity's steps.

Admission

Admission into the Faculty of Music is by competitive auditions, held annually in November or December and March or April. The Faculty of Dance asks for similar qualifications and entry is also by audition; auditions are held at Trinity Laban itself and also at selected venues across Europe and the US. The Conservatoire has an acceptance rate of around 9.9% making Trinity Laban one of the most selective schools in the UK and Europe.

Trinity College London

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was founded in 1877 as the external examinations board of Trinity College of Music. Today, the board's examinations are taken by students in over 60 countries, giving external students the opportunity to attain qualifications across a range of disciplines in the performing arts and arts education and

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. Trinity College London is based at the Blue Fin Building in central London. Trinity College London validated Trinity College of Music's Graduate Diploma (the GTCL) before it was replaced by the BMus model in 1997.

Trinity College of Music's historical association with the Masonic Order

Trinity College of Music has an historical association with

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, with the Trinity College Lodge No 1765 being founded in 1878 by seven early teaching members of the college who were freemasons, including the founder, the Reverend

. In the past, freemasonry was an important though private feature of the life of the College, among both members of staff and the undergraduate and postgraduate men. Trinity College Lodge is no longer associated with the college, since no member of the college belongs to it. However, by co-incidence, the College's patron,

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, has been Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England since 1968.

Faculty of Dance

History

Laban Dance Centre was founded in

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as the Art of Movement Studio by

Rudolf Laban Rudolf von Laban, also known as Rudolf Laban (German; also ''Rudolph von Laban'', hu, Lábán Rezső János Attila, Lábán Rudolf; 15 December 1879 – 1 July 1958), was an Austro-Hungarian, German and British dance artist, choreographer and ...

, an Austro-Hungarian dancer, choreographer and a dance/movement theoretician. In 1958, the school moved from Manchester to

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in Surrey, and then in 1975 to

in London, where it was renamed the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance. In 1997, it was renamed the Laban Centre London. In 2002, the centre moved to newly built premises in Deptford and was renamed Laban.

The faculty today

Laban offers undergraduate, postgraduate (including Transitions), among other courses. The Faculty of Dance also provides classes for adults and young people on the local community, including the Centre for Advanced Training. In 2019, the London International Screen Dance Festival was introduced by the institution. Laban Creekside (Deptford) includes 13 purpose-built dance studios; eight with ballet barres, the 300-seat Bonnie Bird Theatre, a smaller studio theatre, and a dance library. Laban Laurie Grove (New Cross) also has a number of studios and performance laboratories.

Architecture award

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and

Pierre de Meuron Herzog & de Meuron Basel Ltd.,
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(who won the Pritzker Prize in 2001 and who also designed the

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and the National Stadium in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic Games), the centre's building in Deptford won the

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for Architecture in 2003. Herzog and de Meuron collaborated with visual artist

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to create the building. The building includes an eco-technological roof known as a "brown roof". After parts of the building's cladding were damaged by

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in February 2022,

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repeated 2020 calls for the Deptford building to be listed, so that any repairs respected the building's design quality. If it was added to the Heritage List for England it would become its first 21st century building.

Notable alumni

Music

Howard Arman Howard Arman (born 1954 in London) is an English choral conductor and opera director. He won the Handel Prize of the Handel Festival, Halle, in 1996, shaped the festival's orchestra and conducted operas of George Frideric Handel. He is a condu ...

(conductor) * Peter Arnold (pianist) * Sir Granville Bantock (composer) *

Sir John Barbirolli Sir John Barbirolli ( Giovanni Battista Barbirolli; 2 December 189929 July 1970) was a British conductor and cellist. He is remembered above all as conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, which he helped save from dissolution in 194 ...

(conductor, CH) * Helen Bower (violinist) * Thomas Bowes (violinist) * Mairead Carlin (singer) * Edith Coates (mezzo-soprano, OBE) * Avril Coleridge-Taylor (pianist, conductor, composer) * Deva (composer, singer) *

Wilberforce Echezona Wilberforce William Chukudinka Echezona was a Nigerian musicologist and a pioneer teacher of music in Nigerian universities. He was the first Igbo man to be educated at London's Trinity College of Music, and the first African to obtain a degree ...

, musicologist *

Predrag Gosta Predrag Gosta (Cyrillic Alphabet, Cyrillic: ''Предраг Госта'') is a Serbian-American conducting, conductor, harpsichordist, and baritone. Life and career Predrag Gosta was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (present day Serbia), on 14 Janu ...

(conductor, harpsichordist) *

Gavin Greenaway Gavin Greenaway (born 15 June 1964) is an English music composer and conductor. He is the son of Roger Greenaway. Early life and career Educated at Strode's College and Trinity College of Music, Greenaway started working with his father befo ...

(composer) *

Heather Harper Heather Mary Harper (8 May 1930 – 22 April 2019) was a Northern Irish operatic soprano. She was active internationally in both opera and concert. She performed roles such as Helena in Benjamin Britten's '' A Midsummer Night's Dream'' at the R ...

(soprano,

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

) * Stjepan Hauser (

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) (cellist) * Ilaiyaraaja (composer, singer, songwriter) *

Albert Ketèlbey Albert William Ketèlbey (; born Ketelbey; 9 August 1875 – 26 November 1959) was an English composer, conductor and pianist, best known for his short pieces of light orchestral music. He was born in Birmingham and moved to Lon ...

(composer) * Fela Kuti (musician, activist) * Sunny Li (pianist) *

Amaal Mallik Amaal Mallik (born 16 June 1990) is an Indian music director, composer, singer, music producer, arranger, background scorer, performer and lyricist. He is the elder son of Daboo Malik and Jyothi Malik, and grandson of Sardar Malik. He debute ...

(composer, singer) *

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Andrew Matthews-Owen (pianist / accompanist) *

Cecilia McDowall Cecilia McDowall (born 1951 in London, England) is a British composer, particularly known for her choral compositions. Life and career McDowall read music at the University of Edinburgh, continuing her studies at Trinity College of Music, Lond ...

(composer) *

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(composer) *

Mickey J. Meyer Mickey J. Meyer is an Indian music composer and singer known for his works predominantly in Telugu Cinema. He has received two Filmfare Awards South, and three state Nandi Awards for the Best Music Direction. An alumnus of Trinity College of ...

(composer) *

Tom Misch Thomas Abraham Misch (born 25 June 1995) is an English musician and producer. He began releasing music on SoundCloud in 2012 and released his debut studio album ''Geography'' in 2018. In 2020, he released his second studio album '' What Kinda Mu ...

(producer, composer, singer, guitarist) * Eric Parkin (pianist) *

Margaret Price Dame Margaret Berenice Price (13 April 194128 January 2011) was a Welsh soprano. Early years Price was born in Blackwood, near Caerphilly in South Wales. Born with deformed legs, she underwent surgery at age four and suffered pain in he ...

(soprano, DBE) * Marcella Puppini (singer) * A. R. Rahman (composer, singer, songwriter) * Anirudh Ravichander (composer, music director, singer, songwriter, record producer, arranger, instrumentalist, conductor) * Amy Shuard (soprano,

) * Iyad Sughayer (pianist) *

Lana Trotovšek Lana Trotovšek (born September 5, 1983) is a London-based Slovenian violinist. She is a soloist and chamber musician performing in U.S.A., U.K., China, Japan, Germany, France, Finland, Sweden, Lithuania, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, Croatia, and Se ...

(violinist) *

Philip Turbett Philip Turbett (born 15 June 1961 in Omagh, Northern Ireland) is a British bassoonist and clarinettist also specialising in historically informed performance. Orchestral career Turbett has been a bassoonist with Orchestra of the Age of Enlighte ...

(bassoonist) *

Barry Wordsworth Barry Wordsworth (born 20 February 1948, Worcester Park, Surrey, U.K.) is a British conductor. Wordsworth is Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Ballet and has had a long relationship with company. He was first appointed as Assistant Cond ...

(conductor)

Dance

Lea Anderson Lea Anderson MBE is a British choreographer and artistic director. She co-founded The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs dance companies with Teresa Barker and Gaynor Coward, at which she has choreographed over 100 works. She was appointed ...

(choreographer, artistic director, MBE) *

Radhika Apte Radhika Apte (born 7 September 1985) is an Indian actress. She works predominantly in Hindi films, and has appeared in a few Tamil, Marathi, Telugu, Bengali, and English-language films. She began acting in theatre and made her film debut with a ...

(actress) *

Cressida Bonas Cressida Curzon Bonas (born 18 February 1989) is an English actress and model, known also for her relationship with Prince Harry between 2012 and 2014. Early life and education Bonas was born in Winchester, Hampshire, the only child of 1960s ...

(actress) * Sir

Matthew Bourne Sir Matthew Christopher Bourne (born 13 January 1960) is an English choreographer whose work includes contemporary dance and dance theatre. Choreographer In 2007, Bourne contemplated a gay version of ''Romeo and Juliet''. Despite the succ ...

(choreographer, KBE ) * Bilinda Butcher (vocalist/guitarist of My Bloody Valentine) * Chisato Minamimura (Japanese dancer and choreographer) * Anjali Jay (actress and dancer) *

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(dance educator) *

Nighat Chaudhry Nighat Chaudhry (Urdu: نگہت چودھری) is born on 24 February, in Lahore, Pakistan and moved to London when she was one year old. She is a trained Kathak, Sufi & Mystique Kathak classical dancer. She started her journey from London and ...

(Kathak Dancer)

Notable staff

Current and former staff include: *

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piano, Head of Piano Department 2007–2016,

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BM, MSc, student of

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and Gyorgy Sandor *

Richard Arnell Richard Anthony Sayer Arnell (15 September 191710 April 2009) was an English composer of classical music. Arnell composed in all the established genres for the concert stage, and his list of works includes six completed symphonies (a seventh w ...

former Professor of Composition * Peter ArnoldProfessor of Piano * Mulatu Astatkeconga drums * Issie Barrattcomposer * Gabriele Baldocci- piano * Andrew Bernardi-violinist * Oliver Butterworthformer Professor of Violin * Nicholas Claptonsinger (former Professor of Singing) *

Natalie Clein Natalie Clein (born Poole, Dorset) is a British classical cellist. Her mother is a professional violinist. Her sister is the actress Louisa Clein. Early life and education Clein started playing the cello at the age of six, and attended Ta ...

cello *

Christine Croshaw Christine Croshaw is a British pianist and a professor at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London, England. Career Croshaw studied initially with Harold Craxton through an award from the composer Arthur Benjamin and was later award ...

Professor of Piano, Chamber Music and Accompaniment *

Alison Crum Alison Crum (born 23 November 1949, in the United Kingdom), is an English viol player. Biography She got her first viol while studying music at Reading University, and went on to study at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with Wieland Kuijk ...

Professor of

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, member of the Rose Consort of Viols *

Meredith Davies (Albert) Meredith Davies CBE (30 July 1922 – 9 March 2005) was a British conductor, renowned for his advocacy of English music by composers such as Benjamin Britten, Frederick Delius and Ralph Vaughan Williams. His co-conducting, with the com ...

Principal 1979–88 *

Graham Anthony Devine Graham Anthony Devine (born 1971 in Liverpool, Merseyside) is an English classical guitarist. Devine studied with Gordon Crosskey at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester. He moved to Brazil at the age of nineteen and quickly became known t ...

classical guitar *

Terry Edwards Terry Edwards (born 10 August 1960) is an English musician who plays trumpet, flugelhorn, saxophones, guitar and keyboards. Biography Edwards gained a degree in music from the University of East Anglia in 1982, where he was also a founding me ...

conductor * Myers Foggin CBEPrincipal * Philip Fowkepiano * Sophie FullerMusicology * Harry Gabborgan professor * Henry Geehlconductor, composer, pianist *

Rivka Golani Rivka Golani ( he, רבקה גולני , born 22 March 1946) is a world–renowned Israeli-born viola player. She has performed as soloist with many orchestras throughout the world including the Boston Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Royal Conc ...

viola * Philip Jonesformer Professor of Trumpet (founder of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble) * Mark Lockheartjazz saxophonist * Joanna MacGregorpiano (honorary Professor) Andrew Matthews-Owen pianist and coach * Stephen Montaguecomposer * Andrew Poppycomposer *

Joan Rodgers Joan Rodgers C.B.E. (born 1956, Cleator Moor, Cumbria, England) is an English operatic soprano. She was married to the conductor Paul Daniel, and married Alan Samson in 2013. She studied singing with Audrey Langford. She made her professional ...

soprano *

Daryl Runswick Daryl Runswick (born 12 October 1946) is a classically trained English composer, arranger, jazz musician, producer and educationalist. Career Runswick was born in Leicester, and educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys and Corpus Christi Co ...

composer *

Yonty Solomon Jonathan "Yonty" Solomon (6 May 193726 September 2008) was a South African pianist. He played with many of the world's best-known orchestras. Biography Solomon was born in Cape Town, the youngest of seven children of a family from Lithuania. At ...

pianist (Professor of Piano) * Stephen Stirlinghorn *

John Tavener Sir John Kenneth Tavener (28 January 1944 – 12 November 2013) was an English composer, known for his extensive output of choral religious works. Among his best known works are '' The Lamb'' (1982), ''The Protecting Veil'' (1988), and '' Song ...

composer (former Professor of Composition) * David Thomassinger (bass) * John Ashton Thomascomposer *

bassoon (modern and historical) * Jan Van Dykedance * Vasko Vassilevviolin * Marguerite Wolffpiano

References

External links

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
– official website

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