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Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance

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Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is a music and dance conservatoire based in Greenwich, London, England. It was formed in 2005 as a merger of two older institutions – Trinity College of Music and Laban Dance Centre. The conservatoire has 1,250 undergraduate and postgraduate students based at three campuses in Greenwich (Trinity), Deptford and New Cross (Laban).

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
King Charles Court (Music)
TypeConservatoire
Established
  • 2005 – merger of Trinity College of Music and Laban Dance Centre
  • 1872 – founding of Trinity College of Music
Endowment£6.7 million (2020)[1]
ChairmanAlan Davey CBE
PrincipalProfessor Anthony Bowne
PatronThe Duke of Kent
Students1,230 (2022/23)[2]
Undergraduates945 (2022/23)[2]
Postgraduates285 (2022/23)[2]
Address
King Charles Court, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London, SE10 9JF
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London
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United Kingdom
CampusUrban
Affiliations
Websitewww.trinitylaban.ac.uk

Faculty of Music

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History

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Old Royal Naval College, Queen Mary building

Trinity College of Music was founded in central London in 1872 by Henry George Bonavia 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 Church of England.

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 School of Economic Science.

 
Library at Trinity College of Music, Mandeville Place, 1922

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 Greenwich Palace; it was subsequently absorbed into the Royal Naval Hospital 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

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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

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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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Trinity College London 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 English language learning and teaching. 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

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Trinity College of Music has a historical association with Freemasonry, with the Trinity College Lodge No 1765 being founded in 1878[4] by seven early teaching members of the college who were freemasons, including the founder, the Reverend Henry George Bonavia Hunt. 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, the Duke of Kent, has been Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England since 1968.

 
The Old Royal Naval College, on the south bank of the river Thames in Greenwich, London, viewed from the north side. The Queen's House is in the middle of the picture. The Royal Observatory is visible in the background. King Charles Court is the building in the right foreground.

Faculty of Dance

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History

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Front of the Laban Building, Deptford
 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Laban Dance Centre.

Laban Dance Centre was founded in Manchester as the Art of Movement Studio by Rudolf Laban, an Austro-Hungarian dancer, choreographer and a dance/movement theoretician.

In 1958, the school moved from Manchester to Addlestone in Surrey, and then in 1975 to New Cross 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

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Laban offers undergraduate, postgraduate, 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.[5]

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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Designed by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron (who won the Pritzker Prize in 2001 and who also designed the Tate Modern and the National Stadium in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic Games), the centre's building in Deptford won the Stirling Prize for Architecture in 2003.[6] Herzog and de Meuron collaborated with visual artist Michael Craig-Martin 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 Storm Eunice in February 2022, The Twentieth Century Society 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.[7]

Notable alumni

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Professor John Warriner, chairman 1930–34. Taken in 1933
For a more comprehensive list, see Category:Alumni of Trinity College of Music.

Music

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Dance

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Notable staff

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Current and former staff include:

References

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  1. ^ "Financial Statements 2019–2020" (PDF). Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Where do HE students study?". Higher Education Statistics Agency. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  3. ^ "European Association of Conservatoires - Our Members". European Association of Conservatoires. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
  4. ^ "Trinity College Lodge Plea (Issue 6, July 2003)". Masonic Quarterly. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  5. ^ "Announcement of the London International Screen Dance Festival". Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance.
  6. ^ RIBA Stirling Prize Winner 2003 Archived 3 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Ing, Will (3 March 2022). "Campaigners call for storm-damaged Trinity Laban centre to be listed". Architects' Journal. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  8. ^ "Victoria Oruwari". BalujiMusicFdn. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
  9. ^ "Sophie Fuller". www.trinitylaban.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
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