Students are satisfied with this course For the second successive year our music provision has achieved the highest score for overall student satisfaction The 92 score puts BCU 8 higher than the second placed music college You will work with some of the greatest musicians and study on modules that have been specifically and skilfully designed for jazz musicians You will experience significantly more one-to-one tuition time than on a typical academic university music course or indeed any other conservatoire courses We are proud to be a festival partner of the Cheltenham Jazz Festival a partnership that gives our students an insight into how festivals are run and some invaluable performance opportunities Our Jazz course has a partnership with Jazzlines a leading jazz promoter and key contact for international masterclasses Our course prepares you for a portfolio career on the contemporary music scene with performance at its centre It will also give you transferrable skills including team-working adaptability self-promotion time management and critical thinking You ll have full access to our superb 57 million facilities including our Concert Hall 150-seat Recital Hall our black box performance space known as The Lab seven recording studios and more than 70 practice rooms ensemble rooms and workshops all acoustically designed to provide a music-making environment that is world-class We have countless partnerships and long-established professional relationships with organisations including the Cheltenham Jazz Festival City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra the Welsh National Opera Birmingham Royal Ballet Orchestra of the Swan and the Royal Shakespeare Company In 2018 19 RBC musicians collectively earned over 43 000 by being hired to play at events through our Book a Musician service

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