Program Overview

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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.

This course is

open

to

International

students.

What's covered in this 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

P

rincipal

S

tudy 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).

I had a wonderful time on the course – it was intense but also very fulfilling. I felt my singing came on enormously with teachers and coaches who nurtured and challenged me, and performances that really moved me forward. I also enjoyed the variety of academic modules to choose from, which were all well taught and supported and felt relevant to my practice.

Katie Gilbert, Soprano

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Studying with us during the Covid-19 pandemic

The University has put in place

measures in response to Covid-19

to allow us to safely deliver our courses. Should the impact of the pandemic continue in future years, any additional or alternative arrangements put in place by the University will be in accordance with the latest government public health advice, health and safety legislation, and the terms and conditions of the

student contract

.