We have a new MMus in performance running for the first time in 2010-11 which I'm coordinating with pianist Charles Wiffen.
Music at Bath Spa University is part of a vibrant School of Music
and Performing Arts with outstanding facilities (website here). There is an exciting
and creative programme of student performance and composition, which
combines with our professional concert series based at the Michael
Tippett Centre concert hall. BA Music offers specialist modules in
classical and jazz performance and composition. Performance
opportunities include annual staged musical theatre and opera
productions and a range of ensembles from big band to wind band, early
music to gamelan ensemble as well as several choirs.
With around
120 students on BA Music, and 60 students taking music combined with
another subject, we are large enough to take on performance projects
such as the recent British premiere of Philip Glass's opera Satyagraha
and Karl Jenkins' oratorio The Armed Man, but small enough to have a
real sense of community, helped in no small part by the beautiful
campus and surroundings. The Music team is keen to make you feel
involved in the subject, and you'll have plenty of opportunity to
contact your tutor formally and informally.
The BA Music course
emphasises creativity through performance and composition, and is also
alive to the constantly changing needs of the job market. The
instrumentalist as teacher and performer, the composer in education,
arts administration, music promotion and music in the community are
just some of the career possibilities that Bath Spa University will
open up to you. You can be creative and productive in the Bath Spa
University environment while developing new and useful skills and
experience. |