Master of Music (MMus Composition/Performance/Collaborative Piano/Performer Composer)

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.