Postgraduate Music Departments
About Our Postgraduate Music Programmes
The masters programmes in music at the Conservatoire encompass both highly-focused specialisms and a rounded view of the contemporary musician. Our vision is for graduates of the programmes to be able not just to re-create the music of the past, but create the music of the future.
The Principal Study module is centred on your core musical discipline. A wide range of assessment options allow you to tailor the programme to your own individual needs and interests, whether as a performer, composer or conductor.
The complementary Graduate Studies and Options modules offer the opportunity to develop both within and beyond your discipline, as a rounded musical artist with the capacity to perform, compose, record, curate, direct, collaborate and innovate
Our practice-based approach to research methodology encourages you to develop a critical approach to the process of making music, offering a route to doctoral study.
The MMus/MA Performance degree is offered with principal study in Brass, Guitar and Harp, Keyboard, Strings, Timpani & Percussion, Vocal Performance and Woodwind.
The MMus/MA Performance and Musicology and MMus Performance and Pedagogy degrees cover the same range of instrumental and vocal disciplines, with additional emphasis on academic research and instrumental/vocal teaching respectively.
Three specialist piano-based degrees are available: MMus/MA Collaborative Piano, MMus/MA Repetiteurship, and MMus/MA Piano for Dance.
The MMus/MA Chamber Music is designed primarily for existing ensembles who wish to take the programme as a group.
Four distinct degrees cater to particular disciplines and genres: MMus/MA Jazz, MMus/MA Traditional Music, MMus/MA Composition and MMus/MA Conducting.
A small number of students are accepted onto the MMus/MA Joint Principal Study, where there is potential for masters-level work in more than one discipline.
The Advanced PGDip in Music is designed for students with an existing postgraduate degree to undertake further study at masters level.
The Advanced Artist Diploma and Advanced Artist Diploma in Opera are one-year doctoral level programmes leading to an award from the University of St Andrews.
