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MA - Master of Arts
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Full Time
SEP-26
1 Year
Ignite your professional career as a musical director with our industry-focused MA. Designed for experienced and ambitious musicians, this programme offers personalised one-to-one coaching, intensive skills development, and direct engagement with leading practitioners, companies, and creatives across the region.On top of working with the full suite of MA courses, you’ll gain invaluable hands-on experience by observing and working directly with our BA Musical Theatre students in their acting-through-song classes, singing technique sessions, and practical performance projects. This integrated learning environment gives you a unique lens into performer training and the collaborative processes at the heart of contemporary musical theatre.Throughout the course, you’ll explore and challenge the evolving role of the musical director, shaping your own artistic identity through continuous collaboration and the creation of new work. You’ll develop the practical, creative, and leadership skills essential for today’s theatre landscape.With collaboration and individual artistry embedded in every aspect of our Theatre MAs, you’ll graduate confident, adaptable, and ready to make your mark-equipped not only to thrive in a changing industry, but to help shape its future.
A good honours degree in any subject, with a 2nd (2:2) classification or equivalent, usually theatre, music or theatre/music-related, but qualifications in other fields will also be reviewed and considered or Equivalent professional experience may also be accepted and reviewed at application and audition stages. All suitable applicants are invited for interview and/or audition.
Students living in
Domestic
£9,500 per year
Students from Domestic
This is the fee you pay if the University is in the same country that you live in (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)
£14,800 per year
Students from EU
The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from somewhere in the EU.
£14,800 per year
Students from International
The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from a country outside the EU.
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