B.A. Honours in Music

Trinity College Dublin the University of Dublin

Music is a discipline that stretches back to the ancient world. One of the seven original liberal arts, music maintains a place in the university as a subject of broad and passionate interest to composers, musicologists, performers, technologists, and theorists. Performing Arts at Trinity was ranked in the top 100 subjects worldwide in the QS Rankings 2022, reflecting the quality of our teaching and learning. Trinity’s Music Department is Ireland’s oldest and most internationally renowned venue for the study of music. With a distinguished team of academics and practitioners, the department attracts Irish and international students of the highest calibre. Alumni include Derek Bell, harpist in the Chieftains Niall Doyle, Head of Music at the Arts Council Deborah Kelleher, Director of the Royal Irish Academy of Music Kerry Houston, Head of Academic Studies, TU Dublin Conservatoire Donnacha Dennehy, composer and Professor of Music at Princeton University Eleanor McEvoy, singer-songwriter and Fergus Sheil, founding artistic director of Irish National Opera. A particular strength is the department’s commitment to small-group teaching, with some subjects taught in groups of ten students or fewer.

Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences