The MMus Performance course focuses on developing your musical performance in classical, jazz and popular styles at an advanced level. As a performer, you will benefit from one-to-one tuition with our team of internationally acclaimed professional performers, playing and learning with other students in workshops and masterclasses, and taking part in London College of Music’s lively musical environment.
Developing your individual approach to performance, you will hone your critical thinking and listening skills through practical workshops and classes exploring research skills, performance practices and the psychology of performance. Our range of option modules allow you to focus on areas of interest relevant to your career choices.
Throughout the course there are opportunities to work with students form the wider LCM community, enhancing your learning experience and widening your network of like-minded industry professionals.
View some of our students’ recent work.
Academic requirements
You need:
an honours degree (2:1 or above) in music with performance, performance or another relevant subject
an unedited recording of two contrasting pieces of music.
Essay question for applicants
To assess your suitability for the course, we ask you to write a 1,000 word essay on the following topic (roughly 1, 000 words):
If you were asked to develop a project which used your practice as research what would you do? Identify and explain some of the distinctions between practice based and conventional research. In your work give some examples of research methods that might be employed in practice based research. Using this as a foundation, outline a practice based research project that you might undertake which focused on your areas of interest.
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