Hello, I'm Oded Ben-Tal. I'm a composer and I'm
also the Course Leader for Composing for Film and TV at Kingston University
and I'm joined by my colleague Cynthia who will introduce herself.
Hi, I'm Cynthia Stephens-Himonides. I'm a pianist, music educator and researcher.
I course lead Music Education and Music Performance, as well as the MA Music.
So. we hope to welcome you to our vibrant musical community at Kingston University.
In Music Education we take advantage of the diverse community
through our study of music education in different cultures
and contexts as part of one of the modules.
Of course, you're working on practical and theoretical knowledge
as well as research skills.
Oded, tell us about Composing for Film and TV.
So, Composing for Film and TV is a smaller course than the Music Education.
Music Education usually has about 30 students,
Composing for Film and TV has about 10 to 15 each year.
But again, kind of diverse international mix of international and UK students.
You will be studying some techniques of composing in general,
typically composing for media from small TV, sports and adverts,
to how films work and compose some music for film scenes, animation and documentaries.
Cynthia. What about the Performance degree that we offer?
Yeah, same. Again a quite diverse group of students.
Not as many as Music Education. About 25 students.
We do create opportunities to perform for our performance students,
but also for all of our MA students interested in performing.
We also have an MA Music program in which students can pick
and choose the modules they would like to take for their postgraduate program
and this has become quite popular with our with our students.
As far as the performing, we have a lovely Visconti Studio.
And actually , Oded tell us about that.
So the Visconti Studio is the main central studio that we host.
It's both a performance area, teaching space and a recording studio
that mixes analog and digital recording facilities.
It's state of the art, and it's large enough to host a variety of ensembles and concerts.
In addition to that, we have some smaller recording studios, both for teaching and for use.
We have practice rooms, some of them with piano,
some of them equipped for bands.
And teaching rooms and computer rooms in our facilities.
All the building is open during the day and usually weekends.
Then students can book. So you can book your own practice time or recording time when you are here.
Finally Cynthia, why don't you tell us something about Kingston and London where you will be studying?
Right, well, there are three campuses at Kingston and we're at Kingston Hill,
which is the lovely green leafy campus of Kingston University, very close to Richmond Park.
The biggest park in London by the way.
And of course, Kingston itself. The Kingston Center offers some nice shopping.
But of course if you want to be in the center of it all, you're only 20 minutes from London,
which is of course the world class arts base.
So you have the best of both worlds at Knigston University.
Thank you for joining us for this brief introduction and hope we will welcome you to Kingston in the future.
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