COURSE OVERVIEW
This professionally focused, 12-month practice-based master’s degree in music performance aims to help students develop specialist skills as a performer, musical director, composer and arranger to an industry-leading standard through the creation of a significant body of original work demonstrating a distinctive artistic personality. Over the course of the year on this music performance degree, students will refine their instrumental skills, lead ensembles and create new compositions and arrangements through a range of individual lessons and group workshops and lectures. Additionally, students will devise and test strategies to launch, market and continuously develop their professional personas and then undertake a major body of creative and professional work over the summer as part of the Mmus, which could culminate in the performance of a new body of work or the completion of an industry placement.
Overall, the programme aims to:
- refine your specialist performance skills and creative practice;
- enable instrumentalists to develop a significant body of original creative work;
- develop a distinctive artistic personality or voice;
- prepare to lead and continuously develop in professional performance-based industry settings.
What will you learn?
Our MMus in Music Performance is rooted in the deep practice of contemporary performance, musicianship and professional ability and provides a specialised practice-based programme for aspirational career musicians within contemporary music.
Progression
This course is designed to equip you with the skills, theoretical knowledge and connections necessary to establish a lasting career in music. The list below highlights a non-exhaustive list of the options available:
- Professional session musician
- Arranger
- Musical director
- Band member
- Songwriter
- Film scoring
- Executive, manager, administrator, officer in the music or wider entertainment industry
- Executive, manager, administrator, officer in any business
- Music industry entrepreneur
- Instrumental music teacher
- Project manager
Upon graduation, students would be well-placed to pursue a PhD or other advanced degrees in music-related subject areas. Students will also achieve PgCert and PgDip exit awards during this course.