Course summary

Advance your skills as a performer with a postgraduate course in Instrumental Performance at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Our postgraduate courses in Instrumental Performance provide you with advanced-level training in your Principal Study area, preparing you for a solo, chamber or orchestral career, alongside excellent opportunities to develop other skills relevant to future employment in the music profession. This course is open to performers of orchestral, keyboard and other instruments such as recorder, guitar and saxophone. There is also a Chamber Music route for string ensembles. You'll receive specialist tuition from leading UK and internationally renowned performers and teachers. In addition, you'll enjoy regular performance opportunities, as well as having the chance to participate in masterclasses led by distinguished guest artists. 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. We provide a friendly and supportive environment in which you can pursue your postgraduate studies. This is a time when you need to think particularly carefully and strategically about the direction of your developing career as a musician. We therefore encourage you to be ambitious in pursuing your aspirations, and endeavour to provide you with the flexibility to mould your course to your individual needs.

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