Performance

· Trimester 1
In Performance 1 you’ll develop your performance skills and technique, and extend your repertoire. Alongside this the Context and Methodology module gives you a thorough grounding in research methodology. Your development as a performer is supported by regular one-to-one lessons with a specialist teacher.

· Trimester 2
The second trimester extends your development as a performer. The Performance 2 module develops performance skills and repertoire while furthering your understanding of performance history and practice. You’ll also explore strategies for marketing yourself.
You’ll have a choice of modules at this stage and the opportunity to work with peers and across subject boundaries in the Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Practice module. Alternatively you could study a Intercultural Musicology module that allows you to study genres across different cultures, or to join an Opera Studies module that culminates in a public performance of an opera or opera excerpts.

· Trimester 3
The third trimester involves a Major Project for which you’ll prepare a programme for a substantial public performance. The content and structure of this project is to be negotiated with course tutors.

Course assessment

You’ll complete individual assignments for each module. Performance based modules are assessed through performance on your instrument or voice, reflective commentaries on your process, or a lecture recital in the case of Performance 2. Musicology and Contextual modules will be be assessed on written submissions.