London College offers degree in Indian Music

London College offers Degree in Indian Music

Bangalore: Trinity College of Music, London, in partnership with Bharathiya Vidhya Bhavan is offering a degree course in Indian Music, validated by the University of Westminster.

The four-year course will be at the Bhavan’s Kensington campus. Announcing the launch of the course, honorary general secretary of BVB London, John Marr said, “ We were invited by the Trinity College of Music to set up a course because the passion for Indian Music in London was immense.”

The College, which already offers a five-year diploma course in Indian Music, has sufficient teaching faculty to offer the new course. Renowned Indian musicians would visit the college every year to offer summer course for the diploma students and serve as external examiners for the degree course, he added.

The course included both the Hindustani and the carnatic music, so that a student, while following his chosen instrumental and stylistic specialism, will be working in an environment where he will be made aware of the underlying common ethos of Indian music, Marr said.

The curriculum is organized into two modules: Performance Studies, which is one-to-one lesson with a specialist professor for the chosen Principal study instrument or voice, and Contextual Studies, which provide the historical necessary for understanding of Indian music.

The various components in performance and contextual studies will be assessed through performance examinations, coursework portfolios and seminar presentations, a BVB release said.

The main criterion for admission is suitability for advanced, a specialist performance training.

Selection is therefore on the basis of an audition and interview. The college would admit six students every year and the course fees was fixed at 11,000 pounds per year.

For more details on entry requirements for the course, log on to http://www.mvspace.com/indianbmus or e-mail deqree@bhavan.net.

London College offers degree in Indian Music

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