Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Commercial Music with foundation year

Wherever students' passion in music lies, this course offers them plenty of opportunity to hone their skills and study areas of commercial music that are new to them.

Popular music is at the heart of this course and they'll be developing strong skills in performance, instrumental technique, songwriting and composition.

As students progress through the degree, they'll have opportunities to perform, record, produce and compose music in specialist facilities, and they'll study creative, technological and work-related elements of the music industry. Students will also have regular one-to-one vocal and/or instrumental lessons.

The Commercial Music course aims to prepare students as a creative practitioner in performance, production or commercial composition (as a songwriter, or for media, for instance). Graduates have, for example, gone on to work as freelance performers and producers, DJ’s, songwriters, web designers, live sound engineers and freelance instrumental and vocal tutors. Some graduates have elected to continue their education by progressing on to Masters’ degree qualifications and others have decided to train to teach in schools or further education.