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Music Performance and Education

  • Master of Music
  • 1 Years
  • Full-Time
  • September 2027
  • Undergraduate
City Centre Campus
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Course summary

Do you want to develop your performance skills or music teaching practice? Or are you passionate about pursuing a performance-based research project? Or maybe you would like to perform with industry professionals (e.g. from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra)? Or to professionalise your current profile as a musician and/or teacher?

The MMus Music Performance and Education at the University of Liverpool offers:

• Development of solo and ensemble performance
• Development of teaching practice (solo, group and complementary approaches)
• Development of research skills and research projects appropriate to performance
• Opportunities to perform with members of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for performance assessments
• Opportunities to do other performance work beyond standard recitals (e.g. recording and videos)

In addition to your performance study, you'll explore approaches towards and techniques for teaching Music, and develop the skills to analyse performances of a wide variety of repertoires, enabling you to question assumptions about performances made by performers today.

Performance accounts for 40 of the 180 credits in the flexible modular scheme (20 credits for in each of the two semesters), and involves 1-2-1 tuition as well as weekly group workshops. You will study a further 40 credits in pedagogy, exploring the skills and processes of teaching and learning a musical instrument or voice. The remainder of the taught modules will focus on research skills, preparing you to undertake a Major Project over the summer. Your project may be either a long recital or a pedagogy/research project, depending on your chosen performance studies specialism, and is worth 60 credits of your overall degree.

Please note that the MMus Performance is designed specifically for classical music.

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • City Centre Campus

Study options

  • Master of Music • Full-Time • 1 Years

Start dates

  • September 2027

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Entry requirements

Applicants with an undergraduate degree in Music or other relevant subjects (including joint-honours degrees with another subject) are encouraged to apply. The normal expectation is at least a 2:1. All applicants will normally be interviewed and we shall look at candidates not simply in the light of conventional profiles, but with regard to individual qualities. Hence, students with first degrees obtained from music conservatories (both from EU and Overseas institutions) and mature students with non-traditional backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Applicants will be required to submit video evidence of their performance skills. Please include a link to performance demo in your supporting statement.

Please note: Applicants with an undergraduate degree in an arts and humanities or social science subject (including joint-honours degrees with another subject) are encouraged to apply. The normal expectation is at least a 2:1. We shall look at candidates not simply in the light of conventional profiles, but with regard to individual qualities. Hence, mature students with non-traditional backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Students whose first language is not English will have to fulfil relevant language requirements and complete their chosen course in a satisfactory manner (see below). In addition, written samples of academic work will be reviewed.

International qualifications: Applications from international students are welcome. International qualifications will be evaluated in line with the National Recognition Information Centre (NARIC) guidelines. In addition to the materials described above, international students should also include a transcript of their MAs and undergraduate degree work.

Historical entry grades data

This section shows the range of grades that students who received offers were previously accepted on to this course with (learn more).

It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place.

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Tuition fees

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Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.

Additional fee information

If this is your first degree and you are a Home student applying for entry in 2027, you do not have to pay your fees upfront. Instead, you can take out a tuition fee loan which is paid straight to the University. This is available to most students, no matter what their household income.

Tuition fees are subject to increase each year, subject to the government’s regulated fee limits. For UK students applying for 2027 entry the Tuition Fee is £10,050.

You will find full information about tuition fees in the “Fees and funding” section of all course pages on our website.

Some of our programmes charge less than the full £10,050 fee:
• Psychology BSc (Hons) (2+2 programme with Foundation element), run in collaboration with Wirral Metropolitan College.
• Programmes with a year in industry or a year abroad

Some courses may have course-related costs that are not covered by your tuition fee. You can find information on these at Liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-and-funding/study-costs

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