Learning from a team of distinguished professional performers, you will develop into a well-rounded musician, entering the profession fully-equipped with all the necessary skills to succeed.

Overview

The Guitar and Harp Department is structured to reflect musical realities in the 21st century. Most successful musicians live varied musical lives. The MMus and MA Programmes will prepare you for the profession, providing opportunities to acquire a broad range of skills to become excellent musicians and interesting, expressive artists.

Regular individual and group tuition, chamber music and orchestral performances are a focal point of the department. The programmes incorporate regular collaborations with composers in creating new repertoire; side-by-side opportunities with all of Scotland’s national orchestras; classes in technique and performance practice, history and repertoire, improvisation, business skills, and teaching; alongside regular masterclasses with visiting international soloists.

The Guitar and Harp department consists of an exciting, forward-looking team of lecturers who are all experienced soloists, chamber musicians, orchestral players and teachers in their own right. They are on hand to give invaluable advice and tuition informed by their own experience of life as professional musicians.