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Music study trips

Music is learned by listening, playing and asking how it was made. These trips take students into concert halls, conservatories, instrument workshops and composers' homes to study how a place shaped its sound. Students attend live performances, join workshops with working musicians and teachers, and leave with a deeper ear for how history, craft and culture become music.

On the trip

What students explore

  • The classical tradition

    Vienna, Salzburg, Leipzig and Berlin, the cities where Mozart and Bach worked.

  • Opera and the violin in Italy

    La Scala in Milan, Stradivari's Cremona, Vivaldi's Venice and Florence, where opera began.

  • A national sound in the Czech Republic

    Prague and Brno, where Dvořák, Smetana and Janáček built music from folk melody and Czech speech.

  • Flamenco, jazz and choirs

    Flamenco in Andalusia, and the jazz and choirs that carried South Africa's history.

5 trips

Music trips

  • Music

    Austria & Germany: The Classical Tradition

    Vienna · Salzburg · Leipzig · Berlin

    Duration
    10 days
    Price
    Priced to your group size and dates.
    Group size
    Up to 25 students

  • Music

    Italy: Opera, Strings & Song

    Milan · Cremona · Venice · Florence

    Duration
    9 days
    Price
    Priced to your group size and dates.
    Group size
    Up to 25 students

  • Music

    Spain: Flamenco & the Sound of Andalusia

    Barcelona · Granada · Seville

    Duration
    9 days
    Price
    Priced to your group size and dates.
    Group size
    Up to 25 students

  • Music

    South Africa: Jazz, Choirs & Resistance

    Johannesburg · Cape Town

    Duration
    8 days
    Price
    Priced to your group size and dates.
    Group size
    Up to 25 students

Learning outcomes

What students gain

Students will be able to:

  • Explain how a place and its history shaped a musical tradition
  • Describe how instruments are made and how musicians are trained
  • Connect a composer's work to the city and the times they lived in
  • Listen to live performance with a clearer ear for form, style and craft
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