Musical Composition (Research)

Discover your own path as a composer. We welcome traditional and innovative composition styles, offering you opportunities to combine instruments and the latest technology to produce new compositions.

On this course, you can create musical and sonic artworks using electroacoustics and computer technology, traditional (or not so traditional) instrumental and vocal composition, or a combination of these. We're also excited by projects involving interactive systems, multimedia, and sound installations with a range of music facilities on campus for you to use.

Join a university with the specialist music facilities to enhance your compositions and lots of opportunities for you to use our facilities for experimentation.

Our outstanding facilities include:

the Bramall Music Building which includes a 450-seat concert hall
Electroacoustic studios
University Music Hub
Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre (BEAST), our world-recognised c. 100 loudspeaker immersive electronic music presentation system.
You'll also benefit from our research centres, including the Centre for Electronic Music.