Master of Music (MMus) (Taught)

The Master of Music (MMus) programme is designed for students wishing to be professional musicians: performers and composers. It aims to equip students with the necessary musical skills, insight and and experience required by the contemporary profession in its widest sense but with a focus on the Western Classical and Jazz traditions; the Composition, Ensemble, and Performance pathways each offer discrete comprehensive specialist training.

Key Features

• Provides advanced musical training at postgraduate level which encourages the demonstration of individual musical talent and scholarship.

• Enables musicians of proven ability, and with the potential for further training, to advance and refine their skills and specialism/s and deepen their professional expertise.

• Acknowledges the significance of musical context, highlighting the relationship of music to wider artistic, historical, philosophical, cultural and/or social practices, issues and/or phenomena.

• Cultivates musicians who have the ability to work in a variety of complex musical groupings and to exercise leadership in professional practice.

• Creates an environment which encourages risk and nurtures creativity and innovation, reflecting cutting-edge thinking within the profession.

• Produces enterprising, entrepreneurial musicians equipped both for today’s diverse, internationalised and ever-changing music profession.