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The London College of Music was founded in 1887 and existed as an independent music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
 conservatoire based at Great Marlborough Street
Great Marlborough Street

Great Marlborough Street runs west to east through the western part of Soho in London. At its western end it joins Regent Street. Carnaby Street also runs off it on its way east to meet Berwick Street Market....
 in central London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 until 1991, when it moved to Ealing
Ealing

Ealing is a town in the London Borough of Ealing. It is a suburban development situated 7.7 miles west of Charing Cross. It is one of the major metropolitan area centres identified in the London Plan and is often referred to as the "Queen of the Suburbs"....
, west London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, to become part of the newly-formed Thames Valley University
Thames Valley University

Thames Valley University is a United Kingdom New Universities based on campuses in Slough, Reading, Berkshire in Berkshire, and Ealing in west London....
.

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
Music technology

Music Technology is a term that refers to all forms of technology involved with the musical arts, particularly the use of electronic devices and computer software to facilitate playback, recording, musical composition, Computer data storage, and performance....
, radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
, journalism
Journalism

Journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and editorial via a widening spectrum of Media . These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and, more recently, the cellphone....
, and creative and digital arts.






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The London College of Music was founded in 1887 and existed as an independent music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
 conservatoire based at Great Marlborough Street
Great Marlborough Street

Great Marlborough Street runs west to east through the western part of Soho in London. At its western end it joins Regent Street. Carnaby Street also runs off it on its way east to meet Berwick Street Market....
 in central London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 until 1991, when it moved to Ealing
Ealing

Ealing is a town in the London Borough of Ealing. It is a suburban development situated 7.7 miles west of Charing Cross. It is one of the major metropolitan area centres identified in the London Plan and is often referred to as the "Queen of the Suburbs"....
, west London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, to become part of the newly-formed Thames Valley University
Thames Valley University

Thames Valley University is a United Kingdom New Universities based on campuses in Slough, Reading, Berkshire in Berkshire, and Ealing in west London....
.

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
Music technology

Music Technology is a term that refers to all forms of technology involved with the musical arts, particularly the use of electronic devices and computer software to facilitate playback, recording, musical composition, Computer data storage, and performance....
, radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
, journalism
Journalism

Journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and editorial via a widening spectrum of Media . These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and, more recently, the cellphone....
, 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. Since 1994 Tech Music Schools
Tech Music Schools

Tech Music Schools is comprised of Drumtech, Vocaltech, Guitar-X and Keyboardtech and is situated in Acton, West London. It is a group of contemporary music schools that trains musicians for the music industry in the following disciplines: drums, vocals, guitar, bass guitar and keyboard....
 have been running popular music courses in association with Thames Valley University and LCM.

Former principals of the London College of Music (in its various incarnations) include Bromley Derry, Reginald Hunt, William Lloyd Webber
William Lloyd Webber

William Southcombe Lloyd Webber was an England organist#Classical and church organists and composer.The son of William Charles Henry Webber, a self-employed plumber, he was fortunate, from a musical point of view, that his father was a keen organ 'buff' who spent what little money he had travelling to hear various organs in and around the...
, John McCabe
John McCabe (composer)

John McCabe CBE is an English composer and pianist....
, 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
Francis Pott

Francis Pott, born 25 August 1957, is a British composer, pianist, senior academic and university administrator.He held open music scholarships at Winchester College and Magdalene College, Cambridge, studying composition at the latter with Robin Holloway and Hugh Wood while also pursuing piano studies as a private pupil of Hamish Milne in L...
.

The external examinations department of the London College of Music is known as London College of Music Examinations
London College of Music Examinations

London College of Music Examinations is an examinations board offering graded and diploma qualifications in music, and in drama & communication....
 (LCM Examinations) and is currently a department of Thames Valley University
Thames Valley University

Thames Valley University is a United Kingdom New Universities based on campuses in Slough, Reading, Berkshire in Berkshire, and Ealing in west London....
.

The music technology
Music technology

Music Technology is a term that refers to all forms of technology involved with the musical arts, particularly the use of electronic devices and computer software to facilitate playback, recording, musical composition, Computer data storage, and performance....
 department of LCM incorporates possibly the largest concentration of recording studios in the world (25 of them) plus the Native Instruments
Native Instruments

Native Instruments is a music software production company whose products are mainly aimed at electronic musicians. The company was founded in 1996 in Berlin by Stephan Schmitt and Volker Hinz....
 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
Pip Williams

Pip Williams, is a record producer, arrangement and guitarist, best known for producing albums for Status Quo and The Moody Blues.Career...
 and Mike Howlett
Mike Howlett

Mike Howlett is a Fijian-born musician and Record producer based in the United Kingdom.In the late 1960s Howlett was the bassist in Sydney pop band The Affair which travelled to England after winning a music competition....
).

Recent Alumni include Matt Tong of Bloc Party
Bloc Party

Bloc Party are a UK indie rock band, composed of Kele Okereke , Russell Lissack , Gordon Moakes and Matt Tong . Their brand of indie rock has been compared to bands such as The Cure, Gang of Four and The Strokes....
, 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
Digidesign

Digidesign is an American digital audio technology company. It was founded in 1984 by Peter Gotcher and Evan Brooks. The company began as a project to raise money for the founders' band, selling EPROM chips for drum machines....
), Daniel Roe (house engineer for Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel is a Grammy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated England musician and songwriter. He first rose to fame as the lead vocals and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis ....
), James Buttery (house engineer and studio manager at the Royal College of Music), Rob Orton (working with Trevor Horn
Trevor Horn

Trevor Charles Horn is an English pop music record producer, songwriter and musician. He was born in Hetton-le-Hole, England.Horn has produced commercially successful songs and albums for numerous British and international artists....
) and Nadin Hadorn (recently signed a worldwide publishing and production contract with Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an United States record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. It is also affectionately known as "Warners" and 'the Bunny', based on the Bugs Bunny cartoons released by Warner Bros....
).

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