Teaching
Laurence Kaye is an experienced teacher and workshop leader. He has worked in a variety of contexts including schools, further and adult education. The fields he teaches in are song, composition, choir, music theory and history.
Significant projects in the UK have included composition workshops based on the music of Harry Partch for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, a residency with MA students at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, and a 10 week course with Burnley Youth Theatre.
Since 2001 Laurence has been the main music lecturer at GITIS Scandinavia Drama School in Århus, the Danish department of the highly respected GITIS Moscow. Here he teaches song interpretation, choir, music theory and history. As well as delivering and planning these courses, he has been responsible for directing concerts there and presenting students' work.
Other education work after his move to Denmark has included courses and workshops for AOF Århus (adult education), Folkeuniversitet (the Open University), Den Ny Musik Skole (the New Music School), Sceneforum and SGK theatre foundation course. He was leader of the LAB experimental music course based at Daghøjskolen Fokus, Aalborg during 2002. This was an innovative technology based programme to develop students' creativity, drawing on elements of both popular and contemporary classical music.
Drawing on his extensive experience, Laurence has developed a comprehensive theoretical basis and working practice. He shares this approach in relation to song interpretation in his masterclass "Sing Like You Mean It!". His take on recent music history and the effect of technology on the world of sound is the lecture "iPod Killed the Video Star", based on work at GITIS and LAB.
Masterclass- "Sing Like You Mean It!"
Laurence Kaye's solo song interpretation masterclass aimed at more experienced performers. It is a journey in to the heart of sung performance, digging deeper and moving away from the obvious choices. The goal is to unite the world of the song with the right musical expression.
Contents include:
- Text analysis and its relation to song
- Finding meaning through play with sound qualities
- Bringing physicality to song
- The relation to the audience
Students must bring their own material to work on. Come and sing like you mean it!
Lecture- "iPod Killed the Video Star"
"iPod Killed the Video Star" is an entertaining and provocative look at the effect of recent technological developments on music. Our listening experience has radically altered over the last 10 to 15 years.
Has downloading tracks made the album obsolete? Who actually owns music in the age of sampling? Is listening to a surround sound digitally remastered Beethoven's 9th in fact better than going to a concert? Will home CD burning really destroy the music industry?
Laurence Kaye ranges widely over both classical and popular music in this stimulating talk. "iPod..." is available as a single lecture or a more in depth series of 4 talks.
To book or for more information contact Laurence Kaye.
