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Dr. Catherine Laws: Practical music making is not regarded as separate to the more
academic study or theoretical study of music. We teach that way using one
to enhance the understanding of the other.
Prof. William Brooks: The real education takes place in rehearsals in ensembles,
in productions and especially in the dozens and dozens of activities every
term that are entirely student driven. And entirely student generated.
Woman 1: Every year you get fantastic opportunities to play in places
like York Minster and the National Centre for early music. And it's really
unique to York as a place.
Woman 2: There are ensembles that have been to China, that tour around Europe.
And there're very regularly concerts around other cities around the UK.
Bruce Cole: Students have the opportunity to go out into the community
working a wide range of settings.
Man 1: We can organise our own workshops and it's really fulfilling
seeing something we've produced in the community.
Prof. William Brooks: We have a lunchtime series of concerts. 2 concerts each week,
that are run completely by students. The wonderful thing for the staff is
that we can take credit for these wonderful productions, which have just
come about because the students have blossomed.
Dr. Nicky Losseff: What we're really looking for when we interview people is a bit
of boldness, a bit of creativity, a bit of initiative. Because we know
that's what going to take our students through the course best.
And it's also what's going to keep York alive in the way we love it to be alive.
Dr. Aine Sheil: I will say a York student has a lot of initiative. And is a
very practical minded student but one that has a lot of academic curiosity as well.
Woman 3: Why is music so important to us? How does it become so
meaningful to our lives? Coming to York you join a group of people who are
all trying to explore those questions in different ways.
Man 1: If you're passionate about something, the department will help
you explore it. For my under graduate research, I wanted to make a film
which allowed me to go to Paris, Nice, Toulouse, which is amazing.
Rachel Nicholls: If it wasn't for the staff here, some of whom are still here,
there is no way I would be doing opera for a career now. So to get the
chance to come back and make music with the students here and to teach some
of the students here as well, is absolutely fantastic and I'm a little bit
sentimental about it now actually.
Dr. Ambrose Field: The creativity, diligence, and professionalism that you're find
in music will set you up for a wide variety of careers. We have have
students currently in top positions in the BBC and Arts administration.
And in completely unrelated careers such as computing and banking.
There is perhaps something in the logicality of music that enables our students to go
far and wide.
Prof. William Brooks: Now this a York student. We don't produced clones, we don't
produced technicians, we're not interested in training people in the narrow
professional sense. We're interested in bringing out their own creativity
in ways that will surprise them. We hope.