Composition Courses

Rebecca is the tutor of a highly successful course on Composing a New Musical, first run at Benslow Music Trust in April 2007.

Over a weekend residential course, members take part in composition workshops on songwriting, writing for theatre, lyric writing, melody writing, and analyse and discuss songs from shows.  Following the workshops, a large-scale collaborative project get underway, with participants being given a script for a new musical, for which they each compose a song.  After group, collaborative discussion, participants each have individual composition tutorials to discuss their individual song.  The weekend ends with a final read and sing-through of the resulting musical.

Benslow 2007 - Titteli Ture

Course participants' feedback:

"The level of teaching was just right - it catered for all our needs"

"This course was totally fantastic!"

"I can't believe we wrote a whole show in such a short time"

"Absolutely brilliant!  It was a really super weekend"

"I knew what I had to achieve and was given the knowledge and tools to do so but was left with enough space for personal creativity.  Rebecca's personality and tutoring style made this possible."

"The exercises to do with process were really useful"

Benslow 2008 - The Lorelei

Course participants' feedback:

"Inspirational course.  I feel I have achieved so much in such a short time."

"First class, well prepared."

"Thanks for a great course!  Excellent and fun."

The course will be running again at Benslow Music Trust, Hitchin this year 12th-14th June 2009.
See www.benslow.org and book your place to come along and write your own musical!

Opportunities for running the course in other venues around the country are being explored - watch this space for more information.