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My personal ambition as a musician is to pursue a professional career as a performer. I would say that a strength of mine is my song writing, but particularly performance is my strongest ability. This makes me want to enrol in a university course that is based mostly on performance as this would allow me to expand my potential as a performer. My choices in university courses is slightly limited because of the field and because I want to stay in London.

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A course that I am particularly interested in is performance and music management at the university of West London. This is because the course also focuses on song writing and arrangement, whilst developing my marketing skills as a musician and giving me opportunities to perform. The university has a lot of great facilities for musicians and is close to home which is a big factor for me. This courses required grades are achievable for me.

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The institute of contemporary music performance

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The institute of contemporary music performance

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This university offers a course on popular music performance, this is something that I would especially benefit from as it would focus on expanding my skills as a guitarist and vocalist to reach my full potential as a performer and give me skills that I will need in my future career. This course also teaches valuable music business and revenue information which is essential. This university is in London and the required grades are achievable for me.

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Music performance and music business is another course at BIMM that I am interested in for the same reasons. I would be able to continue expanding my performance ability whilst learning valuable knowledge about the music industry and making connections that could help further my career. BIMM also has a lot of good resources that I would benefit from having access to. The required grades for this course are achievable for me.

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Music BA Honours
This course is a much broader study of music and focuses on all elements, including theory, context, performance, production and business. This could be a good choice to give me a better understanding of music in a much larger field. Having this knowledge would be beneficial for me in the music industry.

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A university course that I am interested in is popular music performance and song writing at the Birmingham institute of music. This course would be ideal for me as it's available at the London campus and is focused on my strongest abilities as a musician. The required grades are achievable for me and so this is a strong potential choice for me.

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Another course at BIMM that I am interested in is popular music performance and event management. I feel that this course could be incredibly beneficial for me in expanding my performance ability whilst also teaching me valuable knowledge about the events industry. This could be a better choice for me as I could still pursue my song writing in my personal time, and develop important industry knowledge and skills and gain connections. The required grades for this course are achievable for me.

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Gabrielle Reece personal statement draft

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For this task I am going to lead a workshop on building confidence in performing as a musician, through breathing exercises, and tips for rehearsing songs. I have created a power point to help me lead this workshop and I will demonstrate breathing techniques to the class.

Aim
- to teach how to improve confidence in performance

Objectives
- Optimising rehearsal time
- Learning breathing exercises

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Task 1
I think that i have successfully prepared for the university application process and that i’m ready to submit my personal statements to the universities i am considering.

Task 2
My workshop went well and I confidently shared my skills with the class, the planning i made was useful and helped me to teach the workshop with ease. I feel that I delivered my lesson in a professional manner as the brief requests. The class participated in the warm up exercise that I had planned and ultimately i feel that the workshop was received well by the class.

Task 3
Working on my portfolio helped me to decide how I want to be viewed as an artist and how to express this in a professional manner. I think that I could have included more if i had better recordings and photographs of my performances and the process behind my songwriting. This is something that i will consider when making a professional portfolio for auditions and applications after this project,  I will make sure to prepare as much of my best work possible and include it to share with possible employers or universities what my ability is.

Overall evaluation
This project has helped me to streamline my options and make the choice between whether I would like to go to university or do an apprenticeship and I’ve decided that I would like to go to university.