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Vocal Performance - MMus / PgCert / PgDip

Birmingham City University

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  • Qualification

    Mmus/MusM - Master of Music

  • Location

    Birmingham Conservatoire

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    23-SEP-24

  • Duration

    2 years

Course summary

Advance your skills as a singer with a postgraduate programme in Vocal Performance at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

Whether you're a recent graduate or returning to study after a break, our postgraduate programmes in Vocal Performance provide you with advanced-level training in singing. You're encouraged and enabled to increase your experience as a performer and to broaden your repertoire, though you can also take the opportunity to specialise if you wish.

Alongside your vocal studies, our courses provide excellent opportunities for you to develop other skills relevant to a future career in the music profession. A separate postgraduate pathway is available for Jazz vocalists.

You'll receive specialist vocal tuition from leading UK and internationally renowned performers and teachers. In addition, you'll enjoy regular opportunities to sing in a variety of contexts, both as a soloist and in ensembles with other performers. Such opportunities include not only classes and masterclasses (these last being led by distinguished guest performers), but also in concerts and on the operatic stage.

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.

What's covered in the course?

Regular individual specialist vocal tuition from leading UK and internationally renowned performers and teachers.
Regular vocal classes, including song classes, repertoire classes, and historical performance practice classes.
Bespoke language, stagecraft and dance classes.
Access to masterclasses with distinguished visiting guest artists.
Frequent chances to perform, including solo and ensemble
The chance to audition for our operas and musicals, which are fully staged productions in a professional venue, and frequently double-cast to allow the maximum number of students to benefit from the experience.
In PgDip and MMus, a core career development module designed to get you thinking about your future professional plans.
At PgDip and MMus levels, the flexibility to choose from a broad menu of Professional Development modules designed to help you work towards achieving your personal career aspirations.
In MMus, a core module designed to develop your skills as a researcher or informed practitioner.
In PgCert, the ability to focus wholly on the Principal Study area.
The possibility of transferring between PgDip and/or MMus (as appropriate) once you've begun your studies (but before completion of your original course).

Tuition fees

Students living in United States
(International fees)

£ 26,195per year

Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.

University information

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Birmingham City University

  • University League Table

    90th

  • Campus address

    Birmingham City University, University House, 15 Bartholomew Row, Birmingham, Birmingham, B5 5JU, England

Live and study in an affordable multicultural city with a diverse multi-ethnic population.
Many master's courses offer international students six-month professional placements towards the end of their studies.

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    80th out of 98 1

    21st out of 83 5

  • Entry standards

    / Max 187
    138 70%

    33rd

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    51.0 51%

    65th

    37
  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 5
    3.99 80%

    34th

    33
  • Entry standards

    / Max 217
    156 73%

    24th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    70.0 70%

    26th

    6
  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 5
    4.01 80%

    32nd

    14

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