Our Music Production, Performance and Business BA prepares you for a dynamic career across all facets of the music industry. This course not only covers the essential areas of music production, performance, and business, but also emphasises the importance of collaboration within these fields.
At the heart of our curriculum are authentic group projects that mirror real-world music industry practices. These collaborative projects provide you with hands-on experience, allowing you to assume specific roles within a team and enhance your skills in teamwork, negotiation, and creative synergy. Such experiences are vital in today’s industry.
Whether you aim to be a music artist, producer, performer, songwriter, composer, musicologist, journalist, DJ, technologist, entrepreneur, business specialist, or educator, this course nurtures your aspirations through a blend of practical experience and academic study. Reflective practice and contextual studies are integrated into the course, positioning our graduates as pioneers and thought leaders in the ever-evolving music industry.
Our strong industry connections within London's vibrant music scene enable us to offer guest lectures from top professionals and maximise networking opportunities. These connections are further enriched through interdisciplinary collaborations with peers from film, TV, radio, fashion, and media studies.
Located at the Harrow Campus, the course facilitates a unique collaborative environment not just among music students but also across various creative disciplines. This interdisciplinary approach provides a broad spectrum of opportunities, preparing our graduates for diverse careers in the creative industries and ensuring they have the skills and contacts necessary to expand their professional network and enhance their creative potential.
On this course you will study a wide range of makeup application skills and techniques, you will also learn how to style and dress hair and wigs.
You will take part in a range of exciting work experience placements which will build on your portfolio and build connections with employers. We also support our students to enter WorldSkills UK competitions each year, where you can showcase your creative skills and technical expertise.
On this course, you will explore an exciting range of styles including tap, ballet, jazz, street and contemporary (including Graham, Cunningham and Limon technique). Dancers will also discover their creative voice through choreography and improvisation workshops.
We have exciting opportunities for dancers to participate in including:
HSDC is proud to be working in partnership with the University of Winchester to support our Performing Arts students with masterclasses, audition preparation, collaboration projects and progression opportunities.
This course is ideal for School Leavers who want to pursue a career in the music and music technology industry. This programme is equivalent to three A Levels and provides a route into university or higher education.
Whether you are looking to succeed as a musician or would like to work behind the scenes, you will need talent, creative ability, passion, and determination to make it into the competitive world of music. This course is designed to develop your skills and understanding of music and music technology, as well as the wider music industry.
At Farnborough, you will learn in a very practical environment and be taught by highly experienced industry professionals. You will work in our Mac suite, perform live on stage around the college and at various events, and will record songs in our professional studio. You will also cover areas such as music marketing and business, learning how to use a variety of industry standard equipment and software.
This course is ideal for School Leavers who want to pursue a career in the music and music technology industry.
This qualification is designed to introduce you to music and music technology. You will learn in a very practical environment and be taught by highly experienced industry professionals, using the Mac suite for your computer music work, performing live on stage and around the college at various events, and recording in our professional studio. You will cover a broad number of topics including the music business, studio recording and live sound mixing. You will have the benefit by being surrounded with performing arts, creative arts and media students and staff.
Who is this programme for?
This course is aimed at aspiring musicians who want to make a start in the music and music technology fields and wish to get the basics down before progressing on to a Level 3 course in Music and Music technology. If you are looking to further your knowledge and experience of music and music technology in a very practical and exciting way, in our purpose built recording studio and live stage performance spaces, this course will essentially give you all the skills that you will require to progress. For students who have a passion for this subject area and are very well motivated this could be the beginning of a truly exciting and rewarding experience.
Cost: The course is free for school leavers up to the age of 18, and all students will be expected to own and maintain good quality instruments, and will also need a good quality set of over ear headphones and a min 4GB USB Drive.
This course is ideal for School Leavers who want to pursue a career in the performing arts, or other areas of work where performance skills are useful. It is equivalent to three A Levels and provides a route into university or higher education.
This qualification aims to develop your skills and understanding of acting, dance and performance by learning in a practical environment with industry professionals. You will perform frequently in our on-site theatre and rehearse in our dance studio, surrounded by music, creative arts and media students and staff.
Always loved performing and want to improve your creative skills ready for a career in this competitive world? Then this is the course for you. Bring a production to life – and be involved from backstage to front of house.
You’ll be developing your skills in drama, dance, singing and production. At your side will be our expert tutors, passing on their professional advice as you put on shows and performances.
You’ll perform in College and at local theatres, taking your work to live audiences across our local community. On campus, in Watford, we have everything you need to bring your creativity to life. Alongside our fully-equipped theatre space, there’s a green room, plus costume stores and dance studios.
The main ingredient for success on this course is a deep love of music and a willingness to work hard. You will develop academic, technological, creative and performance skills.
This career-focused course will prepare you for working in the industry by developing professional skills, many of which are transferable to different careers. As well as the technical, performance and production elements you’ll be busy refining your skills across management, marketing, networking, theory and many more.
Leading it all is a team of tutors with exceptional experience both as performers and in technical fields including studio construction, production in analogue, virtual and visual environments. Fees listed are per year.
HNC/Ds provide nationally recognised qualifications that offer career progression, professional development, employment opportunities and further progression within Higher Education. The qualifications are made up of compulsory units and specialist units studied during the first year (HNC) and second year (HND).
This two-year course is designed to develop your practical and academic skills so you can either progress onto university or directly into the industry
Performance pathway:
Production pathway
This course consists of an exciting rage of performance, composition, theoretical and contextual units that will provide you with exciting experiences whilst you develop industry relevant skills and abilities
You will spend time preparing materials and rehearsing both individually and as a member of a group as well as researching your subject, writing reports and essays, presenting your findings and keeping a practice and development journal.
