The Master of Music (MMus) programme is designed for students wishing to be professional musicians: performers and composers. It aims to equip students with the necessary musical skills, insight and and experience required by the contemporary profession in its widest sense but with a focus on the Western Classical and Jazz traditions.

Our named Awards: Collaborative Piano, Composition, Ensemble Artistry, Jazz, Performance and Performer-Composer each offer comprehensive specialist training pathways. (Find out more in Course Details).

Key Features

- Provides advanced musical training at postgraduate level which encourages the demonstration of individual musical talent and scholarship.

- Enables musicians of proven ability, and with the potential for further training, to advance and refine their skills and specialism/s and deepen their professional expertise.

- Acknowledges the significance of musical context, highlighting the relationship of music to wider artistic, historical, philosophical, cultural and/or social practices, issues and/or phenomena.

- Cultivates musicians who have the ability to work in a variety of complex musical groupings and to exercise leadership in professional practice.

- Creates an environment which encourages risk and nurtures creativity and innovation, reflecting cutting-edge thinking within the profession.

- Produces enterprising, entrepreneurial musicians equipped both for today’s diverse, internationalised and ever-changing music profession.

- Explores the application of artistic research within a clearly defined are of music.

Entry Requirements:

- Good 2:1 pass in a BMus (Hons)

- Or an equivalent qualification such as a Performer’s Diploma (LTCL, LRAM, LRSM, ARCM etc.)

- Other equivalent qualifications and/or relevant prior experience may be considered

Applicants must demonstrate through the application, audition and interview procedure the potential to carry out detailed investigations of topics in which they have a particular interest, and to communicate their ideas coherently and effectively to others. They will show the capability to deliver, at the end of the relevant programme, a series of performance, written and/or oral submissions, which will display critical awareness and the ability to communicate their ideas effectively.