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Overview
Are you a practising instrumentalist or vocalist? This popular music performance degree is designed to meet your practical, academic and professional needs. We welcome students from all genres...Read more
Musical Composition PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
The research degree in composition aims to foster your skills as you navigate an exciting new musical world, which combines tradition and innovation, bringing together instruments and the latest in high technology. ...Read more
This is a modular course leading to the award of MA in Popular Music. The course will be of interest to those concerned with the exploration of all aspects of performance.
Course overview
This is a...Read more
This programme builds on one of the department’s newest areas for research and teaching. Uniquely, it focuses on popular music in global, diasporic, transnational, and linguistically diverse forms, reflecting...Read more
The MA Music (Popular Music Research) engages with scholarly debates and public controversies around popular music, while examining and developing both traditional and innovative ways of researching popular music. ...Read more
MA in Music (by research): Improvised Music and Jazz
The MA by Research in Improvised Music and Jazz welcomes applicants who wish to pursue a programme of research focussing on the application, or study, of musical processes that prioritise improvisation. ...Read more
Course Details Be part of a lively popular-music research community that embraces everything from metal music to film scores and work alongside performers, composers and studio producers. ...Read more
This course is designed for recent graduates and suitably qualified mature students, our taught postgraduate courses in Jazz provide bespoke advanced-level tuition to Jazz musicians, whether as performers or instigators. ...Read more
This programme is structured according to your individual needs and experience, and operates in tandem with the Musical Theatre programme. This intensive one-year programme leads to MA (Musical Direction and Coaching). ...Read more
Course Overview
Advanced principal study tuition from professional musicians
Advanced tuition in music preparation, including composition and arrangement
Specialist listening and analysis classes,...Read more
Overview
The NFTS trains composers in both live and synth/sample-based music for the moving image in a production context closely modelled on industry working practices.
Students will compose for a...Read more
Introduction
Designed for students interested in furthering their development in jazz at postgraduate level, this specialist pathway is led by internationally renowned jazz saxophonist and composer (and...Read more
The innovative MA Popular Music Practice provides fantastic opportunities for you to explore your own specialism within popular music in line with your personal career aspirations. ...Read more
Overview
The recent launch of our Eastside Jazz Club has helped consolidate the integral role that Royal Birmingham Conservatoire has to play in the city. While Birmingham’s thriving jazz scene has been...Read more
Overview
The recent launch of our Eastside Jazz Club has helped consolidate the integral role that Royal Birmingham Conservatoire has to play in the city. While Birmingham’s thriving jazz scene has been...Read more
This MMus builds on our international reputation in the popular music field, as seen in the success of our BMus graduates.
The programme offers you the opportunity to reflect critically upon your own...Read more
Introduction
Designed for students interested in furthering their development in jazz at postgraduate level, this specialist pathway is led by internationally renowned jazz saxophonist and composer (and...Read more