Music with Integrated Foundation Year

About this programme

The music industry is an ever-evolving landscape. How will you shape it? Our undergraduate degrees in Composition, Performance, and Jazz with Integrated Foundation Year provide you with an additional, preliminary year of conservatoire training, preparing you for successful study on the BMus degree . The course is designed to give you the tools you need to define your artistic voice and use it to lead the arts beyond convention. Please note that we will not be recruiting new students to this programme from September 2027. During the Integrated Foundation Year, your training will be rooted in studio and practice-based activity, developing foundational skills required by the contemporary profession with a focus on Western Art Music. By the end of the year, you will be able to perform and / or create music as an instrumentalist, vocalist or composer at a level appropriate for entry to the conservatoire BMus course. Your individual artistic voice and personality will be consolidated as appropriate to a range of performance settings. The course will provide you with a broad skill set suited to diverse further training routes in music. You will maintain a personal development portfolio of key documents in your progress and will have termly tutorials to review and discuss these documents. Enhancing your instrument / vocal performance will also be a priority, with 1-1 lessons, departmental classes, performance workshops, audition classes, and more. You will participate in CoLab and your academic study will be refined through a critical thinking seminar and the Music, History, Soc