Discover how to turn your passion for music into a rewarding career. Whether you want to be a performer or producer, engineer or songwriter, DJ or rock guitarist, this course is a starting point for all those careers. To develop your skills, enhance your academic ability and enjoy your music through study, you’ll work with a small group and try many different genres and techniques.
- Work as a team with other musicians and producers to create your own unique sound
- Utilize practical performance skills and technical production skills
- Build skills in your chosen specialist area in our outstanding facilities
- Gain confidence in your ability as a musician
Progression may include a level 2 qualification, an apprenticeship, or relevant employment.
In partnership with Wiltshire College and University Centre, we deliver Level 2 and Level 3 Performing and Production Arts Course accredited by UAL.
If you have a passion for Performing or Production Arts, are keen to explore these fields further, develop your own skills and have ambitions to work in the performing arts or related industries, this is the course for you!
Students are trained at Wiltshire Creative venues, spending two days a week learning in the professional environments with further sessions taking place in the well-equipped college campus studio. There is the opportunity to take a Performing or Production Arts pathway.
Alumni destinations: Some of the exciting destinations for our brilliant students who have completed the course include:
Performing Arts: Rose Bruford, Goldsmiths University, Chichester University, Bath Spa University, East15
Production Arts: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, LAMDA, LiPA, GSA
How will I learn?
This is a vocational course, where students work on five practical projects throughout the year, presenting in the Salberg, Salisbury Arts Centre, and on a schools' tour.
Students see a variety of productions throughout the year and often partake in talks and workshops from Wiltshire Creative staff and visiting practitioners, including the Artistic and Associate Directors, Production and Company Stage Managers.
The innovative MA Performing Arts provides fantastic opportunities for you to explore your own specialism within performing arts in line with your personal career aspirations. It allows you to stand apart from others in your chosen field and lead the discussion in the performing arts sector.
Are you a performing arts practitioner – either a performer, choreographer, director, or entrepreneur – with innovative ideas and a desire to work together with students from different fields?
During your MA, we’ll help you turn your ideas into reality. We’ll introduce you to cutting-edge research and assist you with broadening your network within the industry.
This MA gives you the opportunity to work alongside and make connections with outstanding industry professionals, while developing your own style as a creative practitioner.
Studying the MA Performing Arts is the next step if you want to further develop yourself academically, creatively and professionally after your degree.
A Level Music Production explores how music is written and then shaped in the studio, covering a wide range of areas from the foundations of sequencing, recording and composing through to mixing music in a professional environment.
You will be introduced to sequencing using Logic Pro on Apple iMac digital audio workstations, producing your own multi-track recording using a high-quality analogue mixing desk in one of our outstanding studios.
Topics covered can include:
- Recording and production techniques for both corrective and creative purposes
- Principles of sound and audio technology
- The development of recording and production technology
Create. Collaborate. Innovate.
USW’s Music Producing degree is based at our purpose-built campus in the creative centre of Cardiff.
This exciting and innovative course is a highly practical programme, where you will identify, examine and refine your creative music production process. You’ll be provided with a fast-tracked learning experience through access to USW’s industry-standard studio facilities, extensive tutor expertise and unique collaborative learning environment.
Through masterclasses with industry professionals and real-world briefs, we’ll help you become experts in the latest audio production technology, manage your workflow and forge careers within the creative industries of music, film, television and game audio.
This course nurtures professional development and functions to build the relevant skillsets required for the next generation of music producers, beat makers and recording artists.
