Music (Performance) BA (Hons)

About This Course

We are unable to accept applications for September 2024 entry or September 2025 entry. Interested in courses starting in September 2024 or September 2025? Please take a look at our Music BMus.

This Music (Performance) BA (Hons) degree combines conservatoire-style training in instrumental or vocal performance with university-style academic music studies. It is an ideal course for those wanting to be equipped for a career as a professional musician while keeping open the option to explore a wider range of future career paths within and beyond music.

This course takes advantage of advanced practical musical training within a traditional university setting, and a close integration with our BMus and BA Music degrees. Half your credits in each year of the course will be in instrumental or vocal performance (individual tuition, ensembles and professional development); the other half will be in academic music studies.

Why Choose Bangor University for this course?

• Our teaching grows out of staff performance, research and creative practice, much of which is internationally excellent or world-leading in quality.
• Our state-of-the-art resources recently benefitted from a £2.5 million investment in equipment and teaching facilities and a £480k investment in the Music studios, and now includes five Steinway and two Bösendorfer grand pianos .
• Welsh medium teaching is offered as an option in all music subjects across all levels.
• Alongside performance studies, flexibility is built into our degree programmes, enabling students to build on their strengths.

Course Content

Home to the Department of Music, Drama and Performance, the Music building is situated at the heart of the University. Teaching is provided through a combination of one-to-one performance tuition with a professional musician, group coaching for chamber music and ensembles, seminars, lectures and tutorials.

What will you study on this course?

The Music (Performance) BA (Hons) is designed to train musicians in advanced practical skills while also instilling broad and specialist knowledge and understanding of musical repertoires, and to develop your skills as an independent critical thinker.

At least half of the modules in each year focus on developing you as a performer. You can also choose additional performance-related modules and a range of options in musicology, composition, music pedagogy and health and well-being.

You will learn advanced skills in musical performance, but will also gain historical and stylistic knowledge of periods, repertories and composers of western music (both ‘classical’ and popular), including Welsh music.