BSc(Hons) Audio and Music Technology receives both accreditation and acclaim from Joint Audio Media Education Support (JAMES), the education arm of the Association of Professional Recording Services (APRS) and the Music Producers Guild (MPG) who describe the course as 'highly relevant to current industry practice'.

This course is ideal if you're passionate about music and the technology behind it, but don't necessarily have formal musical training or prior technical experience.

It allows you to explore and develop advanced knowledge, techniques and technologies for recording, production, musical expression, digital creativity, audio programming and the science of sound (acoustics and psychoacoustics).

Musical opportunities abound on and off campus, through our celebrated Centre for Music and countless venues, groups, studios and projects in one of the UK's most musical cities.

Gain valuable real-world experience and a professional portfolio through a series of placements that prepare you for a career in the music industry.

Bristol Old Vic Theatre School is one of the most successful and well-respected drama schools in the UK. We attract the very best talent in students and staff, and our courses are recognised globally as a benchmark of quality in professional acting, technical, production and management training.


Our vision

Bristol Old Vic Theatre School will be an exemplar in modern international drama training, preparing exceptional young professionals to forge their careers in tomorrow’s creative industries.


Our values

Belong: We are sincere, we accept uniqueness and we adapt to include everyone who is part of our diverse and welcoming cultural community.

Challenge with a safety net: We are always learning in a practical and dynamic way, creating and collaborating within a forward-looking, safe and caring environment.

Identify great talent: We look to all backgrounds and communities to find the creative potential who will join us in setting the tone for excellence in our industry.

Inner confidence: We are proud of our expertise and passionate about passing it on to next generation of industry professionals, knowing they will make a difference.

Work productively and properly: We are efficient, respectful and collaborative and understand that everyone needs down-time.


Our strategic priorities

Support our staff: To encourage and resource our staff to be dynamic in their roles, enabling professional development and providing support for them to be happy, healthy and efficient in their work.

Delivery excellence: Delivering courses that reflect our vision and progressing with changes that ensure our students’ training adapts to the fluidity of the creative industries’ landscape.

Raise profile: To be an integral part of Bristol’s cultural and creative heritage, celebrating and reflecting the diversity of our city; to enhance our local, national and international partnerships in order to create opportunities for our students, share our expertise, learn from our global peers and broaden our multicultural perspectives.

Financial health: To sustain, grow and embed a robust and responsible business model.

Where we work: To occupy spaces that we can learn, thrive, innovate and create in, and that help us to deliver our exceptional conservatoire training.

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