Music

Discover who you are as a musician and develop the skills you need to thrive in your future career.
- Learn through making music every day: perform, workshop, improvise, devise, write, play, and discuss with your fellow students and your tutors.

- Make a difference: use music as a force for personal and social change in wellbeing, community, and education settings.

- Build a viable, sustainable, career: connect your musical skills with broad areas of the industry.

Starting with your own interests as a musician, our Music degree develops your core skills as an artist (singer, songwriter, performer or composer), and explores the many ways you can build a sustainable career in music.

This is a broad and hands-on course. Throughout your studies, you'll delve deeper into your own musical interests and explore various genres and styles. Our experienced staff will help you develop your own sound and become a confident performer.

Most of what you produce for assessment could be used beyond your studies in support of your future career. In other words, what you make for us you also make for you. You’ll learn new skills in areas such as:

- Performance, improvisation and ensemble musicianship

- Composition, arrangement and music for media

- Recording, documenting and music production

- Blogging, podcasting and online media

- Music teaching and coaching, including leading workshops

- Event management, marketing, freelancing and the business of music.

All this develops your key professional skills and experience and enables you to build an impressive CV of evidence that appeals to employers, preparing you for a range of careers in the music industry.