A new book about female composers in the 19th and 20th centuries misses an opportunity to cast its net wider in the pool of female musical talent and fails to prove the claims of its title.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is a music and dance conservatoire based in London, England. It was formed in 2005 as a merger of two older institutions – Trinity College of Music and Laban Dance Centre. Today the conservatoire has 1,195 undergraduate and postgraduate students based at three campuses in Greenwich (Trinity), Deptford and New Cross (Laban).
Trinity College of Music was founded in central London in 1872 by the Reverend Henry George Bonavia Hunt to improve the teaching of church music. The College began as the Church Choral Society, whose diverse activities included choral singing classes and teaching instruction in church music. Gladstone was an early supporter during these years. A year later, in 1873, the college became the College of Church Music, London. In 1876 the college was incorporated as the Trinity College London. Initially, only male students could attend and they had to be members of the Church of England.
In 1881, the College moved to Mandeville Place off Wigmore Street in Central London, which remained its home for over a hundred years. The college took over various neighbouring buildings in Mandeville Place. These were finally united in 1922 with the addition of a Grecian portico, and substantial internal reconstruction to create a first floor concert hall and an impressive staircase. However, other parts of the college retained a complicated layout reflecting its history as three separate buildings. The building is now occupied by the School of Economic Science.
Trinity moved to its present home in Greenwich in 2001. The east wing of King Charles Court was constructed by John Webb as part of a rebuilding of Greenwich Palace; it was subsequently absorbed into the Royal Naval Hospital complex, designed in part by Sir Christopher Wren, which had later become part of the Royal Naval College. To make the buildings suitable for Trinity’s use and remove the accretions of a century of RNC occupation required a substantial refurbishment programme. Work to provide new recital rooms revealed that the building’s core incorporates masonry from the Tudor palace. The overall cost of the move to Greenwich was £17 million.
The Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is internationally recognised as a leading school for music and dance training. The school has been ranked ninth in the world’s top 10 music schools.[5] The website shareranks.org listed it as 11th (out of 77) in a list of Best Music Colleges/Conservatories in the world (in March 2018).[6]
In The Guardian University Guide 2011 (published in June 2010), Trinity Laban was ranked joint 1st (with Warwick University) out of 87 institutions in drama and dance, 8th out of 71 institutions in music, and 5th out of 35 in the specialist institutions league table.
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