Music Specialised with Professional Placement Year

About this programme

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: 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. A talented group of BA (Hons) Music students recently flew to Brazil to perform in a major music festival in Pelotas. On this course, you’ll have regular music-making opportunities and be able to explore your personal musical identity through making original work. You’ll develop your creative skills as a practitioner in a wide range of musical styles and contexts. BA Music aims to provide you with access to a broad range of careers in music. You’ll undertake practical training and work experience and take music beyond concert venues and into schools, community organisations, health and social care settings and musical societies.