With a strong emphasis on experiential learning, improvisation, song writing and listening, this flexible and highly regarded course is aimed at giving you the knowledge and practical skills to enter an existing practice or start your own.
With a strong focus on experiential learning and improvisation, this course is informed by psychodynamic and person-centred principles and equips you with the clinical, theoretical, and practical skills needed to enter the profession.
You'll develop an improvisational approach and gain experience in both individual and group music therapy practice.
In the first year, you'll work with children and adolescents, the second year focuses on adults, and the third year explores more complex areas, such as palliative care, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), and forensic services.
This flexible programme allows you to study while working. You'll learn from experienced tutors and research staff with strong connections within the profession. Regular visiting lecturers provide insights from a broad range of practice.
The course leads to registration as a music therapist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
Gain valuable experience in actor training techniques for stage and screen, write and devise performance projects, and learn about the contexts of production to prepare you for a range of careers in the creative industries.
Performance is a part of our everyday lives, from live theatre and cinema, to television, radio, and digital storytelling.
Studying BA(Hons) Drama, Acting and Performance at UWE Bristol enables you to understand the production contexts, learn actor training techniques, and build confidence to communicate effectively across a range of formats.
Performance is a significant contributor to the global economy, and enriches audiences with culture, entertainment, education, and information. It needs creative thinkers to become the makers of the future.
This creative course is ideal for you if you're passionate about making compelling drama.
Develop and refine your creative process using inspiration from past and present composers. Express and apply this in different areas using a broad range of techniques and technologies. Recognised as the 'most musical city' in the UK (per capita) it is a fantastic place to study all genres of music.
BSc(Hons) Creative Music Technology is accredited by 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'.
Explore composers and artists past and present, taking inspiration from Bach to Boulez, The Beatles to Hans Zimmer.
Refine and define your own creative process. Develop programming skills and learn how to enhance the sound and quality of audio using technology.
Study composition and enhance your formal musical training in music theory and performance. Get involved with inspiring musical projects in the community, for schools and with local media companies.
Perform in events organised by our celebrated Centre for Music. Activities range from big band, to chamber ensembles and a full symphony orchestra.
Gain valuable real-world experience and a professional portfolio through a series of placements that prepare you for a career in the music industry.
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.
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.
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.
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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