Course summary

Enhance your musical creativity with the Master of Music at Canterbury Christ Church University. Designed for performers, composers, producers, and scholars eager to refine their craft and advance their careers, you'll study in a UNESCO World Heritage Site with outstanding facilities and internationally active staff. What you’ll learn

• Refine your musical practice through specialist study in performance, composition, production, or written research.

• Develop advanced creative, analytical, and research skills under the guidance of expert practitioners.

• Collaborate with artists across disciplines to produce innovative and industry-relevant work.

• Undertake an independent project or dissertation to showcase your professional and creative vision.

• Enhance your employability and prepare for careers or PhD study through mentoring and industry engagement.

• Performance areas on campus include the Anselm Studio theatre space (featuring a fully fitted professional sound and lighting rig) and the Students’ Union bar alongside rehearsal and performance spaces in the Daphne Oram Creative Arts building and St. Gregory’s Centre for Music - a venue which seats 150 and can be used for performances and recordings. In addition, students have opportunities to perform at external venues such as the prestigious Ramsgate Music Hall.

• The university recording studios, in our dedicated creative arts building, are kitted out with in-house instruments and state-of-the-art control rooms centred around Audient in-line desks with additional industry standard hardware and mic collection.

• Mac labs are equipped with software such as Logic, Ableton Live and Adobe Creative Cloud.