Master of Arts - Music: Open Pathway (With Performance)

Music as a discipline is more diverse than ever, and musicians and scholars in the 21st century must be prepared to navigate amongst numerous streams of practice and research.

The MA Music: Open Pathway offers students the opportunity to chart their own route within this exciting world. In consultation with the programme convenor, students will design a unique course of study, drawing upon the University of Birmingham's extensive offerings in Musicology, Composition, and Performance. Modules from outside the discipline (e.g. a language) may also be available if relevant to students' individual pursuits.

Full time staff include Director of Performance Ceri Owen, an award-winning collaborative pianist and scholar-performer, and scholar-performer and early music conductor Andrew Kirkman. They join forces with Simon Halsey, renowned chorus master of the CBSO and Berlin Radio Choir, and orchestral conductor Daniele Rosina, plus instrumental and vocal lessons arranged with the faculty of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

The MA in Music at Birmingham offers first class, world-recognised staff who are experts in their fields meaning students learn from people who really are the best at what they do.

Students study within the excellent facilities available with the Elgar Concert Hall, which is one of the most flexible concert halls of its type in any UK university.