London College of Music

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name = London College of Music

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established = 1887
type = Public
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chancellor = Lord Bilimoria
vice_chancellor = Professor Peter John 1 July 2007
students = 52,890cite web |url=http://www.hesa.ac.uk/holisdocs/pubinfo/student/institution0506.htm |title=Table 0a – All students by institution, mode of study, level of study, gender and domicile 2005/06 |work=Higher Education Statistics Agency online statistics |accessdate=2007-03-28]
free_label = Further education
free = 32,965
undergrad = 17,935
postgrad = 1,990
city = Ealing, Reading and Slough
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country = UK
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website = http://music.tvu.ac.uk/
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The London College of Music was founded in 1887 and existed as an independent music conservatoire based at Great Marlborough Street in central London until 1991, when it moved to Ealing, west London, to become part of the newly-formed Thames Valley University.

In 1996 Thames Valley University created a school called the London College of Music and Media (LCMM) to encompass LCM and a diversification of media related areas such as: music technology, radio, journalism, and creative and digital arts. LCMM was renamed the TVU Faculty of the Arts (FOTA) in 2005. As of March 2007, the music department of FOTA began once again to operate under the title of London College of Music.

Former principals of the London College of Music (in its various incarnations) include Bromley Derry, Reginald Hunt, William Lloyd Webber, John McCabe, Linda Merrick and Colin Lawson. The current Head of Music is Christopher Batchelor, and the Chair of Composition and Head of Research Development is Professor Francis Pott.

The external examinations department of the London College of Music is known as London College of Music Examinations (LCM Examinations) and is currently a department of Thames Valley University.

The music technology department of LCM incorporates possibly the largest concentration of recording studios in the world (25 of them) plus the Native Instruments Labs (containing 40 Mac computers). Aside from offering music technology courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level, LCM is also an official Native Instruments training centre and offers Apple certified Logic training courses. The music technology teaching staff includes two Grammy Award winning record producers (Pip Williams and Mike Howlett).

Recent Alumni include Matt Tong of Bloc Party, Matthew Hodson (founder of the London Synthesis Orchestra), Ben Salter (who worked with Nile Rodgers in the United States), Paul Andrews (working as a senior field support technician for Digidesign), Daniel Roe (house engineer for Peter Gabriel), James Buttery (house engineer and studio manager at the Royal College of Music), Rob Orton (working with Trevor Horn) and Nadin Hadorn (recently signed a worldwide publishing and production contract with Warner Bros. Records).

References

External links

* [http://music.tvu.ac.uk London College of Music website]