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Popular Music Performance with Foundation at University of West London - UCAS

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Course summary

This course is a brand-new offering within the London College of Music’s portfolio, and focusses on developing the creative, entrepreneurial, musicianship, and technical skills needed to cultivate a career in the eclectic and diverse field of popular music performance. During the course, you will:

  • Receive bespoke 1:1 tuition with our team of internationally acclaimed professional performers
  • Develop your musicianship and interpretation skills
  • Engage with current theories in historical and social popular musicology and performance practice
  • Deepen your understanding of today’s popular music industry
  • Nurture the entrepreneurial skills required for the contemporary musician.
Throughout the course, there are opportunities to collaborate and work with students from across LCM’s vast creative community, enhancing your learning experience and developing your network of like-minded industry professionals. Complementing LCM’s existing popular music performance-based degree courses, the BMus (Hons) Popular Music Performance programme provides future popular music professionals with a thorough, industry-facing educational experience. This degree offers you the opportunity to cultivate performance-focussed skills which are vital to you as a contemporary musician. This includes a secure technical foundation, a high level of performing ability, a strong creative drive, an advanced knowledge of musical concepts – including secure music literacy and critical listening skills – as well as an exploration of the placement of popular music as a broader sociological construct. This diverse provision will ensure that you are equipped with a strong, creative, and entrepreneurial drive, and an ability to employ a wide range of employable skillsets. The course’s philosophy takes a developmental and strategic approach focussing on investigation, evaluation, and creation. This begins with a range of subjects designed to develop knowledge of performance, music scholarship, and musical arrangement before shifting to a more critical performance training; engaging with practice research methods as you learn to manage more advanced collaborative performance scenarios. In your final year, you will direct self-guided performance projects that demonstrate your acquisition of industry-standard skills and conceptual considerations. As a graduate from this course, you will be a pioneer and innovator; recognising contemporary industry practices to build, drive, and maintain a career as a versatile and employable musician. This course includes a foundation year.

How to apply

31Jan

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Course code:
W323
Institution code:
W05
Campus name:
Main site - West London
Campus code:
M

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Foundation

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

There are no qualification requirements for this course.

Student Outcomes

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77%
Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs)
95%
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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

England £9250 Year 1
Northern Ireland £9250 Year 1
Scotland £9250 Year 1
Wales £9250 Year 1
Republic of Ireland £9250 Year 1
International £16250 Year 1

Additional fee information

No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
Popular Music Performance with Foundation at University of West London - UCAS