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2 Welcome
Welcome to LCM Live!
This is my final welcome as Director of LCM as I am now Michael John LaChiusa. This is challenging and ambitious work
delighted to introduce and welcome the new Director – which will showcase our students in the best possible light. We
Prof. Nicholas McKay. are delighted that the LCM Show Band goes from strength
to strength and will support the Musical Theatre casts deliver
He joins us from Canterbury Christ Church University where he memorable performances.
held the post of Head of the School of Music and Performing
Arts and Head of the Graduate school. He has substantial We are also delighted to present a special lunch time concert
experience in all aspects of music and I know he will bring his featuring the Cello Sonata composed by LCM Prof. Francis Pott
own particular strengths and knowledge to further advance with Joseph Spooner (cello) and not to forget, the ever popular
the London College of Music. evening of Jazz on 15th April. UWL Arts Festival 2019 takes
place in May and is the Celebration of our arts students across
The third LCM live programme of the year always features our London College of Music and London School Film, Media and
graduating students and therefore many “lasts and finals”. Design. Tickets will be available via uwl.ac.uk.
This is a chance to show our support to them as they venture
forth into their careers. I wish them all the very best of luck The final event of this academic year passes over to the younger
and every success. generation, with Junior LCM students concert on Saturday 6 July.
Our actors undertake their final performances in April with On behalf of the staff an students of London College
Caucasian Chalk Circle and Romeo and Juliet, both with of Music I would like to thank you all for the support
a modern twist. Camerata who gave a most wonderful you have given LCM Live.
performance earlier in March with the Welsh Guards Band,
give their final lunchtime concert of the year. Musical Theatre Sara Raybould
will dedicate their final productions to the American composer Pro Vice-Chancellor Student Experience
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LIVE
PERFORMANCES
London College of Music Live performances are
open to the public. Unless otherwise indicated,
booking for events may be done by emailing
lcmlive@uwl.ac.uk
or email us at lcmlive@uwl.ac.uk
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Live Performances
London College of Music
Wednesday 3 April Saturday 6 April
Lunchtime Concert Production
Featuring Cello Sonata (1995, revised in 2001) BA Actors
composed by LCM Professor Francis Pott Romeo and Juliet
Joseph Spooner (cello) and Francis Pott (piano) For tickets visit uwlsu.ac.uk/lcmlive
Time: 1.10pm Time: 2pm
Location: St Mary’s Church, St Mary’s Road Location: Lawrence Hall, Ealing Site
Friday 5 April
Production
BA Actors
Romeo and Juliet
For tickets visit uwlsu.ac.uk/lcmlive
Time: 7pm
Location: Lawrence Hall, Ealing Site
Twelfth Night
Live Performances
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Wednesday 10 April Friday 12 April
Lunchtime Concert Evening Concert
Advanced Performance Project Live Electronic Music Performance
‘Jazz at Lunchtime’ B2B³
Andy Lightfoot and Her Majesty’s Welsh Guards Time: 7.30pm
Band Location: Lawrence Hall, Ealing Site
Time: 1.10pm
Location: Weston Hall, Ealing Site Monday 15 April
Evening Concert
Wednesday 10 April An Evening of Jazz
Evening Concert Time: 7pm
Opera Scenes Location: Lawrence Hall, Ealing Site
Classic Opera Hits including Excerpts from
Mozarts Magic Flute Wednesday 17 April
Time: 7pm Lunchtime Concert
Location: Lawrence Hall, Ealing Site LCM Camerata
Time: 1.10pm
Location: St Mary’s Church, St Mary’s Road
Coldstream Guards
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Wednesday 24 April Saturday 27 April
Lunchtime Concert Junior College Open Day
Voice in Performance Students Individual, Group Classes & Ensemble Taster
Time: 1.10pm Sessions
Location: St Mary’s Church, St Mary’s Road Time: 9am – 2pm
Location: University of West London
Thursday 25 April For more info visit uwl.ac.uk/lcmjuniorcollege
Production
BA Musical Theatre Saturday 27 April
First Lady Suite Production
For tickets visit uwlsu.ac.uk/lcmlive BA Musical Theatre
Time: 7pm First Lady Suite
Location: Lawrence Hall, Ealing Site For tickets visit uwlsu.ac.uk/lcmlive
Time: 2pm
Friday 26 April Location: Lawrence Hall, Ealing Site
Production
BA Musical Theatre
First Lady Suite
For tickets visit uwlsu.ac.uk/lcmlive
Time: 7pm
Location: Lawrence Hall, Ealing Site
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Saturday 27 April Saturday 4 May
Production Production
BA Musical Theatre BA Musical Theatre
First Lady Suite Bernada Alba
For tickets visit uwlsu.ac.uk/lcmlive For tickets visit uwlsu.ac.uk/lcmlive
Time: 7pm Time: 2pm
Location: Lawrence Hall, Ealing Site Location: Lawrence Hall, Ealing Site
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Friday 10 May Wednesday 15 May
Production UWL Arts Festival 2019
BA Musical Theatre Exhibition of experimental film and audio featuring
The Wild Party work from London School of Film, Media and Design
For tickets visit uwlsu.ac.uk/lcmlive and London College of Music students.
Time: 7pm Time: 5pm
Location: Lawrence Hall, Ealing Site Location: Ealing Site
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Saturday 18 May
Junior College Open Day
Individual, Group Classes & Ensemble Taster
Sessions
Time: 9am – 2pm
Location: Ealing Site
For more info visit uwl.ac.uk/lcmjuniorcollege
Saturday 22 June
Junior College Open Day
Individual, Group Classes & Ensemble Taster
Sessions
Time: 9am – 2pm
Location: Ealing Site
For more info visit uwl.ac.uk/lcmjuniorcollege
Saturday 6 July
Junior College End of Year Concert
Time: 3pm-4pm
Location: Ealing Site
For more info visit uwl.ac.uk/lcmjuniorcollege
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PERFORMANCE
PROJECTS
Final year students present a wide range
of self-managed projects as part of their
performance-based modules. These
performances are the pinnacle point of the
students’ time with us at LCM and are varied
in genre and approach - they promise to be
an exciting and eclectic mix!
The Gondoliers
Performance Projects 11
Wednesday 3 April Wednesday 10 April
Serena Campos (jazz vocals) Andy Lightfoot (clarinet)
‘Boy Meets Girl’ ‘Jazz At Lunch’
Time: 8.30pm Time: 1.10pm
Location: The Woodman, N6 5UA Location: Weston Hall, Ealing Site
Friday 5 April
Anthony Kitchen (saxophone) and Julian Sandford
(Windsor Brass Quintet)
‘Saxophone recital & Brass Quintet’
Time: 7pm
Location: The Old Court, Windsor
Alina Bistricka
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Friday 12 April Wednesday 17 April
Laurence Edwards (classical voice) Jack Dawkins (jazz saxophone)
‘Classical Singing recital’ ‘A jazzy evening of bluenote and bop’
Time: 7.30pm Time: 7pm
Location: Vestry Hall, Ranelagh Road Location: Lawrence Hall, Ealing Site
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Wednesday 24 April Friday 26 April
Benny Ma (percussion) Charlotte Grant (saxophone)
‘It’s Percussion!! Your Easter Treat’ ‘The Joy of Composing – a showcase of female
Time: 7pm composers for the saxophone’
Location: St Mary’s Church, St Mary’s Road Time: 6.30pm
Location: St Cuthbert’s Church, SW5 9EB
Thursday 25 April
Jack Charles (voice and guitar) Saturday 27 April
Time: 7pm Denis Gravina (piano)
Location: The Underbelly, Hoxton Square ‘Music without Words’
Time: 7pm
Thursday 25 April Location: Ealing Green Church, W5 5QT
Marvin Dawe (guitar), Elizabeth Andrews (vocals),
Aaron Dawson (drums) Tuesday 30 April
Time: 7pm Mengfei Xue (piano)
Location: The Underbelly, Hoxton Square ‘The Piano’s Journey’
Time: 5.30pm
Thursday 25 April Location: St Mary’s Church, St Mary’s Road
Johannah Chambers (classical voice)
‘One of a Kind – a concert to celebrate women’
Time: 7.30pm
Location: St John the Baptist, SW19 4NZ
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Tuesday 30 April Thursday 2 May
Yiwen Wang (violin) Ellie Jayne (pop vocals)
‘The Strings’ World’ Time: 7pm
Time: 7.30pm Location: The Slaughtered Lamb, EC1V 0DX
Location: St Mary’s Church, St Mary’s Road
Thursday 2 May
Wednesday 1 May Esme Lees & Zoe Georgiou (voice and piano)
Harry McNabb (piano) ‘Painting with Music’
‘Music from my Youth’ Time: 7.30pm
Time: 7pm Location: Vestry Hall, Ranelagh Road
Location: Vestry Hall, Ranelagh Road
Thursday 2 May
Marian Bango (violin)
‘Gypsy Romance’
Time: 6pm
Location: Ealing Green Church, W5 5QT
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UWL Arts 15 May 2019
LSFMD Fashion Show,
Festival
7pm, Weston Hall
16 May 2019
Check uwl.ac.uk/lcmlive
for more information
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Urinetown
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PERFORMING
ARTS
Lysistrata
Performing Arts 25
First Lady Suite The first piece, the staccato, yet hauntingly lyrical
Over Texas, takes place aboard Air Force One on
November 22nd, 1963. Mary Gallagher, the First
Lady’s personal secretary, and Evelyn Lincoln,
Musical by Michael John LaChiusa personal secretary to the President, are trying to
relax as they fly into Dallas. Mary is coaxed into
Thursday 25 April, 7pm napping by the cool, collected, Evelyn. Mary’s
Friday 26 April, 7pm dreams become portentous nightmares as they are
Saturday 27 April, 2pm haunted by a ghostly Jackie and an eerie Lady Bird.
Saturday 27 April, 7pm The brassy, bouncy Where’s Mamie? takes place in
Ike and Mamie’s bedroom at the White House, yet
Lawrence Hall, Ealing Site quickly turns into a time-travel fantasy as Mamie,
Tickets from uwlsu.com/lcmlive melancholic and alone on her birthday, is paid a
visit by the celebrated opera star Marian Anderson.
Marian whisks Mamie off to Algiers to confront Ike
about an affair, and warn him of the racial strife
he’ll face later in life as President. The comical Olio
presents first daughter Margaret Truman at a recital
Michael John LaChiusa’s FIRST LADY SUITE is an trying her best to sing as she’s constantly upstaged
enthralling look into the lives of some of history’s by First Lady Bess. The final piece of the Suite,
most neglected figures, the wives of U.S. presidents. Eleanor Sleeps Here, is a heart rending examination
They are: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Mamie of the relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt
Eisenhower, Bess Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt. and Lorena Hickok as they’re being flown over
FIRST LADY SUITE has a distinct structure. Washington by Amelia Earhart.
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Bernarda Alba BERNARDA ALBA is a masterwork by Michael John
LaChiusa, which a musical voice to Federico Garcia
Lorca’s final 1936 masterpiece, The House of Bernarda
Alba, through pulsing castanets, trilling Spanish guitars
Music and words by Michael John LaChiusa and resounding rhythmic stomps.
Based on the play “The House of Bernarda Alba”
by Federico Garcia Lorca BERNARDA ALBA tells the tales of a powerful matriarch,
Bernarda Alba was originally produced by Lincoln who imposes a strict rule on her household following
Center Theater, New York City, 2006 her second husband’s funeral: ‘Not a breath of
outside air is going to enter this house. It’s going to
Thursday 2 May, 7pm feel like we’ve bricked up the doors and windows,’
Friday 3 May, 7pm she proclaims. Bernarda’s five daughters, however,
Saturday 4 May, 2pm struggle with her cold wishes. The girls’ dreams and
Saturday 4 May, 7pm desires challenge their mother’s harsh rules and the
outside world begins to slowly permeate their isolated
Lawrence Hall, Ealing Site existence.
Tickets from uwlsu.com/lcmlive
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The Wild Party Manhattan decadence in the 1920’s provides the
backdrop for this tough musical fable. Queenie, a
vaudeville chorine, hosts the blow-out of the title with
her vicious lover, a black-face minstrel. The guests are a
Music and Lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa vivid collection of the unruly and the undone: Queenie’s
Book by Michael John LaChiusa and conniving rival; a cocaine-sniffing bisexual playboy;
George C. Wolfe a washed-up boxer; a black brother act; a diva of
Based on the poem by Joseph Moncure March indeterminate age and infinite life experience; the fresh-
off-the-farm ingénue whose naïveté quickly evaporates;
Thursday 9 May, 7pm a lesbian actress and her comatose girlfriend; and the
Friday 10 May, 7pm bargain basement Valentino who catches Queenie’s
Saturday 11 May, 2pm roving eye. The jazz and gin soaked party rages to a
Saturday 11 May, 7pm mounting sense of threat as artifice and illusion are
stripped away. When midnight debauchery leads to
Lawrence Hall, Ealing Site tragedy at dawn, the high-flying characters land with a
Tickets from uwlsu.com/lcmlive sobering thud, reminding us that no party lasts forever.
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London College of Music
Partnerships
The London College of Music is always pleased to be able to work
with a wide range of cultural partners. In 2019 these include:
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2019 Season
at Investec Opera Holland Park
Secrets, lies,
political intrigue
and obsessive love
Manon Lescaut Puccini
Un ballo in maschera Verdi
L’arlesiana Cilea
Double Bill: Il segreto di Susanna Wolf-Ferrari
and Iolanta Tchaikovsky
www.operahollandpark.com
Opera Holland Park Theatre, Holland Park,
London W8 6LU
If you studied at University of West London, or one of our predecessor institutions, then you are a member of
the UWL Alumni Association.
Membership is automatic after graduating, free and you can enjoy a range of benefits:
• Exclusive alumni networking events
• Lifelong careers support
• Professional development workshops, careers fairs, webinars and courses
• Alumni communications: Annual Alumni magazine, social media updates, e-newsletter
• Alumni card for access to the campuses and library after graduation
• Special alumni discounts
• Volunteering opportunities
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London College of Music
Bursary Fund
The LCM Bursary Fund provides vital
support to students facing financial
hardship, enabling them to complete
their studies successfully. All donations
make a huge difference to the lives of
our talented and deserving students.
To lend your support, please visit
alumni.uwl.ac.uk/lcmdonation
Each course lasts for 8 -10 weeks, and is delivered on Saturday mornings from 9.30am to 12.30pm
(Thursday 5pm-8pm for Cake and Bake).
Courses include:
• Basic culinary skills, including garnishing and presentation skills
• Food Hygiene and basic culinary science
• Teamwork and organisation
£10
per week
Opening Times
Lunch – 12.00pm until 2.30pm
Dinner – 6.30pm until 9.00pm
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London College of Music
LCM Junior College
Overview
LCM Junior College is a performing arts department
that has a history of 60 years providing expert tuition
for in excess of 150 students aged 5-19. Performance
is at the heart of learning and students can perform
in a number of concerts throughout the year.
Students at LCM Junior College are also encouraged
to take LCM graded theory and performance
examinations to support their learning.
Exams cover a wide range of classical, jazz, pop/rock and traditional music subjects.
They are available for candidates of all levels: from beginner Steps through 8 grades
to professional diplomas in performance and teaching.
LCM Exams are regulated by Ofqual, and higher grades are awarded UCAS tariff points.
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St Mary’s Road
W5 5RH
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Ranelagh Road
W5 5RJ
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Ealing
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Walpole
Park 1
Lammas
Park 2
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Photo credits
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