Creative Music Technology - BMus (Hons)

University of Surrey

- We're ranked top of all the creative music technology courses in the UK (Guardian University Guide 2025). - You’ll be taught by creative music technology experts and creative practitioners, and work in a unique environment using world-class professional facilities. - Take the opportunity to get industry-ready with our award-winning Professional Training placements. - Join our vibrant, creative community with collaboration across all courses, facilitating outstanding performance and composition opportunities. - Our Music and Media’s Performing Arts Technology Studios underwent a £1.7m refurbishment and expansion in 2022.

On this practice-led course you’ll study the creative use of music technology using a wide range of specialist software and hardware, preparing you for a broad range of careers in the creative industries.  You’ll choose from areas of study such as electronic music creation and performance, recording and production, sound design, music for moving image and creative music programming. Traditional music skills are also an important part of the course, and you may also choose to study traditional instrumental music, including performance.  Our vision is to create ‘thinking musicians’. We’ll work with you to develop analytical and interdisciplinary approaches to composing, performing and working with technology to produce a strong portfolio of creative work.   The skills that you develop will prepare you for professional opportunities in the creative industries, as well as future postgraduate education.