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Mmus/MusM - Master of Music
Main Campus
Full Time
SEP-25
1 Year
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Mmus/MusM - Master of Music
Main Campus
Full Time
SEP-25
1 Year
Mmus/MusM - Master of Music
Main Campus
Part Time
SEP-25
2 Years
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This MMus Performance course is ideal for proficient instrumental or vocal performers who wish to further enhance their musical and artistic development through focused study. On this programme you will refine your technical and interpretative skills on your chosen instrument or voice. This MMus Performance allows you to acquire a deeper understanding of contemporary and historical contexts relating to instrumental or vocal pedagogy, and develop pathways and methodologies to undertake specialist practice-based research. You will also hone high-level transferable skills in critical thinking, conceptual thinking, problem-solving, analysis, communication, self-direction and originality.
You can work closely with professional tutors, accompanists, and established researchers, many of whom have international profiles.
Careers
The MMus in Performance will widen your experience of performing and will develop your academic skills in relation to your practice. The programme will equip you for further study of performance and/or musicology at PhD level and beyond. It will also equip you with skills in creativity, self-discipline, analysis and communication which are valued by employers both within and outside the field of music. Recent graduates have pursued successful careers as professional performers, concert promoters, arts administrators, teachers, educational advisers, performers, and business people.
A first degree at 2.ii standard or higher (or equivalent) is required.
Candidates for this programme must be able to demonstrate excellent performance skills; most will have either an excellent grade in an undergraduate final-year recital (good 2.i or higher), a high mark in DipABRSM (or equivalent) or at least a pass at LRSM (or equivalent).
Applicants will be asked to audition, or, where this is not feasible, to provide a recorded video performance featuring contrasting repertoire (25-30 minutes) which can be in the form of links to content on YouTube or Dropbox, or by uploading video files (PLEASE NOTE: your face must be clearly visible in any submitted videos)
Students living in
Domestic
£10,500 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)
£10,500 per year
Students from Other UK
The above-mentioned fee is for the Isle of Man and the Republic of Ireland
£10,500 per year
Students from Channel Islands
£26,000 per year
Students from EU
The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from somewhere in the EU.
£26,000 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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