Course summary

The University of Chichester Conservatoire has one of the largest and liveliest performance departments in the UK with a community of over 900 student performers. You will get to showcase public performances with professional production teams for regional tours, major art festivals and to create and premiere new commissions. The course provides employers with talented graduates in an area where skilled practitioners are in demand and where jazz band instrumentalists, jazz singers, piano/vocalists and guitar/vocalists in particular are welcomed. Train to perform on cruise ships, in stage shows and hotels around the world by developing your practical skills in jazz performance with an equally strong emphasis on preparing you for work on cruise ships and wider entertainment contexts. You will have access to auditioning for full scale production work as well as being guaranteed to take part in fully staged cabaret floor shows. Working with jazz industry professionals and performers who have headlined for some of the most prestigious cruise companies in the world, such as Holland America, Royal Caribbean, Cunard, Crystal, Radisson, Princess, NCL, Saga and Fred Olsen, you will develop the vital skills needed to be competitive in this rapidly expanding entertainment sector. We have a well developed network of employers and agents with whom we can work to efficiently introduce you to for career opportunities in the industry, with special relationships with leading agent and booker, Sonic Artists.