Choral Conducting - MMus
Postgraduate
In Birmingham
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
Birmingham
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Duration
2 Years
Designed for recent graduates and suitably qualified mature students, our taught Master of Music (MMus) and Postgraduate Diploma (PgDip) Choral Conducting courses provide the technical training, collaborative opportunities and podium time necessary to help you prepare for a career as a professional conductor. Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is currently the most exciting destination for choral conductors, with an active recording and concert schedule.
You'll work across the whole spectrum of the Conservatoire’s music making, from core contemporary repertoire and student composition projects, through the central romantic and classic masterpieces back to period performance techniques.
It's normal for conducting students to be proactive in presenting performances of projects that they've generated themselves. You'll receive support and professional advice in pursuing such projects, which should be viewed as an essential element of your studies. Both PgDip and MMus courses provide excellent opportunities to develop other skills relevant to a future career in the music profession.
You'll have full access to our superb £57 million facilities, including our Concert Hall, 150-seat Recital Hall, our black box performance space known as The Lab, and more than 70 practice rooms, ensemble rooms and workshops; all acoustically designed to provide a music-making environment that is world class.
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About this course
UK students should normally hold an honours degree, ideally but not necessarily in Music.
Non-UK students should hold a Bachelor's degree or a similar degree-equivalent diploma, ideally but not necessarily in Music.
All applicants for this course will be auditioned.
Home student auditions will be scheduled live in Birmingham.
At Royal Birmingham Conservatoire we provide a friendly and supportive environment in which you can pursue your postgraduate studies. This is a time when you need to think particularly carefully and strategically about the direction of your developing career as a musician. We therefore encourage you to be ambitious in pursuing your aspirations, and endeavour to provide you with the flexibility to mould your course to your individual needs, both within your Principal Study area and in complementary modules.
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Subjects
- Music Technology
- Composition
- Music Management
- Music
- Music Composition
- Writing Music
- Keyboard Performance
- Critical Editing
- Conducting
- Orchestral
- Jazz Improvisation
Course programme
In order to complete this course a student must successfully complete THREE CORE modules (totalling 140 credits):
- Career Development
- Principal Study 1: Choral Conducting
- Principal Study 2: Choral Conducting
- THREE Professional Development modules (20 credits each), and
- ONE MMus optional module (40 credits)
- Optional modules
Additional information
UK students
Award: MMus Starting: Sep 2021
Mode - Part Time
Duration - 3 years
Fees - £7,400 per year
International students
Award: MMus Starting: Sep 2021
Mode - Full Time
Duration - 2 years
Fees - £23,600 per year
Choral Conducting - MMus