Program Overview

With a sector-leading 20 hours per year of weekly individual instrumental or vocal tuition, modules in instrumental or vocal teaching, and ear-opening music history modules which will broaden your musical horizons, this course allows you to pursue your passion for music in ways that lead to many career pathways.

The music facilities at Northumbria situate brand new musical instruments inside carefully considered spaces. Our world-class Steinway Model B piano is in The Great Hall, located in the Grade II Listed Sutherland Building, which is also where new and spacious practice facilities are to be found.

Facilities are shared between small class sizes, meaning that you can readily access practice rooms to play, compose, critique, conduct, plan, prepare, experiment, coordinate, and improvise.

Performance modules offer 20+ hours per year of weekly 1-to-1 tuition, provided by highly qualified and experienced tutors, as well as seminars covering performance anxiety, how to practise, how to work with an accompanist, and many opportunities to perform in front of others in a supportive environment.

You will learn in a close-knit community of staff and students where all teaching is interactive and takes place in small groups, often of no more than ten.

Modules in teaching your instrument are designed in association with the Education Department at Northumbria University, with the opportunity to go on placements supported by Music Hubs in the North East of England.

Fresh, new facilities include the new Steinway grand piano in the Great Hall, which hosts the weekly Northumbria Lunchtime Concerts series, and large practice rooms for individual practice that can also accommodate groups of students working together.

You will broaden your knowledge of music from medieval times to the present day, getting ‘hands on’ experience of doing music history, visiting libraries and museums, working with our world-leading Montagu Collection of global musical instruments, and being supported to research the music that you’re passionate about.

You will develop musical skills such as theory, techniques of composition, piano-playing/keyboard skills, and conducting.

You will find out more about working as a freelance musician and will be able to access entrepreneurship support.

Find out more about the Music Scholarships we offer: Instrument Scholarship and Choral Scholarship.

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