MA Music

Kickstart your music career with our Music MAs. These practical postgraduate degrees are designed to develop your art form and enhance your musical skills, professional approach and innovative thinking, equipping you for the dynamic nature of today’s music industry. You can choose a route that suits your interests, specialising in Classical, Composition, Film, TV and Games, or Jazz. 

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MA Music Production 

Launch your career as a highly skilled, pioneering music and audio producer with our Music Production Masters degree.

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MA Popular Music

Launch your career in music with our MA in Popular Music. Designed to empower you with a blend of musical expertise, a professional mindset and creative ingenuity, this postgraduate performance degree will prepare you to enter the ever-changing landscape of the modern music industry. Choose a route that’s perfect for you, specialising as a performer, songwriter, writer-performer or writer-producer.

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MA Musical Direction

Part of our suite of Theatre MAs, the MA Musical Direction is designed to fully prepare highly-skilled musicians to embark upon a career as a musical director. With tailored one-to-one classes, students will hone their musicianship and be exposed to a wide range of working practices, working alongside key practitioners, companies and industry professionals from across the region.

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MA Directing

This degree will give you contemporary, practical training to become an integral part of the next generation of theatre directors. Through skills classes and project-based learning, you will be given the time, resources, and rehearsal room access you need to develop your craft. Teaching will be delivered by industry practitioners and Masterclass guests, with mentorship and placement opportunities. Each is designed to support you in clearly defining your artistic voice, aligning your passions, skills, and ambitions, and preparing for a portfolio career.

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MA Dramaturgy

Our MA in Dramaturgy focuses on developing new work and individual artistry through collaborative practice. Whether as a practitioner shaping theatre through storytelling, dance or music, or as a dramaturgy in a literary department dissecting text, students will be introduced to a multitude of ways of creating new theatre. Working with leading practitioners and institutions from across the North, students will learn the key components of storytelling, character and structure.

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MA Musical Direction

MA Musical Direction is designed to fully prepare highly-skilled musicians to embark upon a career as a musical director. With tailored one-to-one classes, students will hone their musicianship and be exposed to a wide range of working practices, working alongside key practitioners, companies and industry professionals from across the region.

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MA Musical Theatre Company

The Musical Theatre Company course combines rigorous conservatoire training with continued, collaborative, student-led development of new work, preparing students not only to gain employment in the musical theatre industry but as artists creating their work.

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MA Musical Theatre Creatives

Our MA Musical Theatre Creatives is an individually-tailored MA for anyone interested in creating new musical theatre and a professional career as a creative in the industry, whether as a composer, writer, choreographer, lyricist or something that has yet to be defined.

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See more about the offers available for alumni continuing or returning to their studies with us on the Postgraduate Scholarships & Bursaries page