MA Music – Open Pathway with Performance
The Music – Open Pathway with Performance programme from University of Birmingham is more diverse than ever, and musicians and scholars in the 21st century must be prepared to navigate amongst numerous streams of practice and research.
Quick Facts
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Duration: |
1 year (Full-Time) 2 years (Part-Time) |
Starting in: |
September |
Tuition Fee: |
£22,950 per year |
Location: |
Birmingham, United Kingdom |
In consultation with the programme convenor you will design a unique course of study, drawing upon our extensive offerings in Musicology, Composition, and Performance. Modules from outside the discipline (e.g. a language) may also be available if relevant to your individual pursuits.
Full time staff include Director of Performance Ceri Owen, an award-winning collaborative pianist and scholar-performer, and scholar-performer and early music conductor Andrew Kirkman. They join forces with Simon Halsey, renowned chorus master of the CBSO and Berlin Radio Choir, and orchestral conductor Daniele Rosina, plus instrumental and vocal lessons arranged with the faculty of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
The Music – Open Pathway with Performance programme from University of Birmingham offers first class, world-recognised staff who are experts in their fields meaning students learn from people who really are the best at what they do.
Students study within the excellent facilities available with the Elgar Concert Hall, which is one of the most flexible concert halls of its type in any UK university.
Courses included:
- Advanced Performance
- Advanced Studies in Electroacoustic Composition
- Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
- British Music Studies 1850-1975
- Composition Tutorials
- Experimental Music and Sound Art
- Fieldwork Methods
- Historically Informed Performance
- Global Popular Musics