| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-18 | - |
Program Overview
Overview
This BA (Hons) Jazz and Cabaret Performance degree will develop your solo performance skills in jazz singing or playing as well as your skills as an ensemble performer to prepare you for careers in cruise, hotel, and entertainment performance.
You will receive individual tuition in your specialist vocal or accompaniment discipline throughout your studies and have the opportunity to join one or more of our six orchestras, five choirs and nine other taught performance ensembles. You will be trained in the art of performance itself and can choose to study the Alexander Technique, yoga and other skills alongside a wide choice of contextual modules.
Working with industry partners TAG (Talent Artistic Group) and Sonic Artists and with professionals from the West End, jazz venues, BBC Radio, chart topping recording artists and the most prestigious cruise companies in the world, you will develop vital skills to be competitive in this rapidly expanding entertainment sector.
In addition to weekly tutor led Jazz nights on campus, you will be guaranteed a place in our Cabaret floor shows as a soloist or showband member. In your final year you will develop your professional showreel and perform in an industry showcase.
On this course you will:
Partnerships
Jon Perry
Director, Sonic Artists "Sonic Artists have a wide range of opportunities for musicians and performers in the cruise, leisure and holiday industries ideal for Jazz, Musical Theatre, Songwriting and Cabaret Performance. We are committed to helping the University of Chichester develop this talent and eventually guide them into the job market."Program Outline
Teaching and Assessment
How you will learn
You will study using lecturers, seminars, practical classes and workshops. You will learn from a core team of experienced and qualified tutors alongside a wide-ranging team of more than 60 specialist instrumental and vocal teachers.
You will be assessed through a range of assignments including essays, exams, exhibitions, performance and practical work, project work, presentations and seminar discussions.
Saara Sofia Paakko
Conservatoire student "The atmosphere at the university is lovely due to the small size of the institution, and I love being around like-minded people."The Course
What you will study
You will study a selection of core and optional modules in each year. Each module is worth a number of credits is delivered differently, depending on its content and focus of study.
This list is indicative and subject to change.
Select a year
Cabaret Skills
Ensemble
History of Cabaret
Introduction to Jazz Theory
Jazz Repertoire
Performance Development
Professional Resilience
Professional Skills
Cabaret Skills
Cabaret Skills
With a rigorous focus on developing your individual skills, this all year module puts your technique into practice in the development of performance in a variety of styles and contexts.
As a solo singer you will have the choice of regular vocal repertoire classes in addition to a good amount of group dance/movement tuition, arranging, and join the Cabaret showband as a soloist. As an instrumentalist you will join the Cabaret showband, study arranging and musical direction.
Your classes will give you the fundamental techniques for your chosen route and encourage you to push yourself out of your comfort zones in exploring repertoire choices from not only Musical theatre, but also (where suitable) classical, pop, jazz, rock, Disney and swing.
The performance of song and/or instrumental studies allied to engaging with the audience is a vital skill that is explored in this module.
Ensemble
Ensemble
You will produce a professional standard performance, demonstrating confidence within your chosen repertoire(s) and technical and expressive maturity. You will need an appropriate balance in programming and the ability to lean towards either a supporting or leadership role and develop your skills in hosting events and presenting the work to others.
History of Cabaret
History of Cabaret
To develop an individual voice as a cabaret performer it is important to understand the traditions of entertainment from which the role derives.
This module allows you to understand and learn from the key figures in the history of cabaret entertaining either with a view to working within a particular chosen style, or breaking away from the tradition from an informed position.
This module looks at the evolution of the role and changes in the way cabaret has been consumed from the 19th century and earlier through to more current models.
Introduction to Jazz Theory
Introduction to Jazz Theory
Jazz theory is an important part of the overall development and toolbox of the developing jazz musician. This module will explore harmony, melody and rhythmic aspects of jazz theory and will seek to demonstrate through group analysis, how these components can be applied to standard jazz repertoire.
Jazz Repertoire
Jazz Repertoire
This module will explore a different composer and selected compositions each week. You will analyse selected work both theoretically and contextually and examine different versions and arrangements of the piece.
Performance Development
Performance Development
This includes your 1 to 1 tuition in your selected instrumental or vocal study.
Professional Resilience
Professional Resilience
This module will explore a range of different strategies designed to offer support to the emerging arts practitioner and will introduce students to a number of different models of successful self-development.
Professional Skills
Professional Skills
Supporting the Cabaret Skills module, this year long programme of study is focused on professional practice, developing the different skills needed for cabaret performance, as well as developing a good sense of technical knowledge.
As part of this, you will work under the direction of specialist teachers, preparing them towards professional careers.
Cabaret Skills
Ensemble
History of Modern Jazz
Masterclass
Performance Development
Professional Skills
Self-Employment, Employment and Visualising Success
The Roots of Jazz
Cabaret Skills
Cabaret Skills
With a rigorous focus on developing your individual skills, this all year module puts your technique into practice in the development of performance in a variety of styles and contexts.
As a solo singer you will have the choice of regular vocal repertoire classes in addition to a good amount of group dance/movement tuition, arranging, and join the Cabaret showband as a soloist. As an instrumentalist you will join the Cabaret showband, study arranging and musical direction.
Your classes will give you the fundamental techniques for your chosen route and encourage you to push yourself out of your comfort zones in exploring repertoire choices from not only Musical theatre, but also (where suitable) classical, pop, jazz, rock, Disney and swing.
The performance of song and/or instrumental studies allied to engaging with the audience is a vital skill that is explored in this module.
Ensemble
Ensemble
You will produce a professional standard performance, demonstrating confidence within your chosen repertoire(s) and technical and expressive maturity. You will need an appropriate balance in programming and the ability to lean towards either a supporting or leadership role and develop your skills in hosting events and presenting the work to others.
History of Modern Jazz
History of Modern Jazz
This module will look at jazz from two perspectives.
Initially, the module will look at the history of jazz, starting with its birth in New Orleans and examining its stylistic developments concentrating on a number of key figures and movements in its evolution up to present day. However by the 1960’s, the free jazz movement began to blur the boundaries and definitions of what jazz is.
Therefore, this module will also address the issue of the process that jazz has fore grounded as an evolving art form which constantly borrows from other musical influences to create ever-renewing hybrid forms of music. In looking at these two perspectives, the answer to the question ‘what is jazz?’ will be clarified alongside an appreciation for its rich and varied musical legacy.
Masterclass
Masterclass
This module continues to develop your performance and communication skills and your sense of performance context. You will develop your repertoire, your understanding of style and your skill in preparing for audition or performance.
Performance Development
Performance Development
This includes your 1 to 1 tuition in your selected instrumental or vocal study.
Professional Skills
Professional Skills
Supporting the Cabaret Skills module, this year long programme of study is focused on professional practice, developing the different skills needed for cabaret performance, as well as developing a good sense of technical knowledge.
As part of this, you will work under the direction of specialist teachers, preparing them towards professional careers.
Self-Employment, Employment and Visualising Success
Self-Employment, Employment and Visualising Success
This module explores the local and national marketplace and will introduce you to a number of different models of successful positioning within it.
A successful career as a music professional needs to be informed, alongside musical and communication skills, by an understanding of the nature of self employment in business.
This module will seek to develop this, and to encourage a confident approach to the world beyond university, enabling a tailored financial and business planning which encourages an awareness of local markets and circumstances.
The Roots of Jazz
The Roots of Jazz
You will explore the roots of jazz and focus on the development of jazz between 1890 and 1930 as you critically analyse the social, political and cultural context in New Orleans.
Arranging for Jazz
Cabaret Performance Showreel
Ensemble
Performance Development
Personal Study
Post Modern Jazz
Venues and Organisations
Arranging for Jazz
Arranging for Jazz
You will develop your ability to take standard repertoire from the jazz canon and rearrange it into your own personal vision, which is a key skill within the jazz domain. You will develop a personal repertoire of arrangements and compositions to prepare you to secure gigs in the future.
Cabaret Performance Showreel
Cabaret Performance Showreel
This large all-year module incorporates a huge array of classes specific to your specialisms, including:
Working with a wide range of tutors, this module will encourage you to look at how to present your own work on camera, how you market your skillset in the profession and help you to reflect on positioning yourself to a professional standard to agents and bookers.
Ensemble
Ensemble
You will produce a professional standard performance, demonstrating confidence within your chosen repertoire(s) and technical and expressive maturity. You will need an appropriate balance in programming and the ability to lean towards either a supporting or leadership role and develop your skills in hosting events and presenting the work to others.
Performance Development
Performance Development
This includes your 1 to 1 tuition in your selected instrumental or vocal study.
Personal Study
Personal Study
In this module you will select an area of music to research theoretically and practically over a period of time.
Post Modern Jazz
Post Modern Jazz
You will seek to find answers in a postmodern jazz world and ask if the intrinsic identity of jazz has been lost and where it can go from here. You will gain an understanding of its evolution since Coltrane by listening, playing, and analysing jazz from the 50’s to the present day.
Venues and Organisations
Venues and Organisations
In this module, you will conduct self-analysis in your knowledge of and skills in accompaniment, clowning, magic and comedy, as you discuss with confidence aspects of practice relevant to their individual choice of or combination of discipline development.
Careers
Where you could go after your studies
This BA (Hons) Jazz and Cabaret Performance degree prepares you for a range of careers after you graduate. You will benefit from our industry relationships throughout your degree and we will help you explore career opportunities with our network of employers and agents.
Past graduates have performed in:
Graduates have also secured roles as stage managers, arts managers and producers, picking up contracts in the UK and around the world.
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to see some of our graduates.Further Study
You could choose to continue your studies at postgraduate level.
Study options at the University of Chichester include:
University of Chichester alumni who have completed a full undergraduate degree at the University will receive a 15% discount on their postgraduate fees.