LANDOR CONDUCTING ACADEMY
Classes, workshops, masterclasses and individual tuition, for beginner to advanced, in Central London
Director and Principal Instructor: John Landor
MA (Oxon), ARAM, SPk cert. (Prof. I. Musin)
'A conductor must make music visible to the musicians with their hands'. — Ilya Alexandrovich Musin
Why Choose
Landor Conducting Academy?
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Achieve your potential
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Flexible modular courses
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Learn one-to-one and with peers
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Short-term or long-term
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Work with piano, ensembles and orchestras
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Network with colleagues
What Will You Learn?
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Powerful and effective conducting techniques
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How to convey musical emotions
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Leadership and rehearsal skills
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The dynamics between conductor and orchestra
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How to learn and memorise scores
Who's It For?
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professionals
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students
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music educators
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community orchestra conductors
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composers
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music theatre directors
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choir and band directors
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and more!
Welcome to the Landor Conducting Academy
Whether conducting is your lifelong passion, or you simply want to improve your effectiveness, the Landor Conducting Academy is here to help you achieve your goals. With John Landor's expert guidance, you will gain valuable skills and new insights, through practical experience, observing your colleagues, discussion and exploration.
John Landor has extensive experience working with orchestras, choirs, and opera companies in the UK and internationally. He was Music Director of London Musical Arts Orchestra, based at St Martin-in-the-Fields, for over 30 years. He holds a MA in Music from Oxford University and is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in London where he studied conducting with George Hurst. He later studied conducting at the St Petersburg Conservatory of Music under Ilya Musin. He has taught conducting for over ten years to students, professional and amateur conductors and performers, composers, music teachers, music theatre directors, choral directors, etc.
John says: "My philosophy and method of instruction is inspired by my teacher Ilya Musin, the great Russian conducting pedagogue of the Leningrad/St Petersburg Conservatoire, whose influence on me was transformative. He taught the means to achieve an almost palpable contact with the sound that enables a conductor to mould the music with the greatest precision, while encouraging vivid characterisation, dramatic realisation, and powerful narrative flow. At first it can feel counter-intuitive compared to some more orthodox approaches, but once you ‘get it’, it’s so effective that it’s impossible not to embrace it."