Performers learn from each other. On our MA Performance (Music) course, you’ll develop your own specific skill set, but also work with directors, conductors, instrumentalists, and creative producers to develop your work and ideas. Along with students from other MA Performance pathways, you’ll become part of our in-house Bath Spa Productions company – a company of unique talents that are individually and collectively developed.
Our MA Performance (Music) course will help you to understand the wider world of the performance industry and allow you to gain key skills and knowledge in your specific discipline.
Our production house, Bath Spa Productions, offers a range of projects that engage professionals and give opportunities to extend your networks and profile your work.
We usually require candidates to have a good first degree in any academic subject. You may be considered without a first degree if you can demonstrate considerable relevant experience.
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Our graduates work in a wide range of performance-related areas such as:
Trimester one
In the first trimester, you begin two year-long modules, which focus on core technical skills and the mutually beneficial links between research and practice.
From the start of this course, the Skills module immerses you in the practical training necessary to develop your skills as a performer. The Professional Practice module will allow you to strengthen your practice while developing your personal process and approach.
Trimester two
Learn to be an effective collaborator. You’ve laid the foundations for developing your own skills; now you turn your attention to how to apply these in collaborative projects – in teams, in companies, and with artists and other professionals.
Alongside this, you’ll develop a performance company with fellow MA students and create public performances, with opportunities to work on SparkFest, the festival we run in collaboration with Bath Festivals, which takes place on campus, across the city, and online. You continue to develop your work, supported by the weekly seminars, responding to internal and external opportunities and considering the way your work engages with audiences.
Trimester three
The third trimester involves a Major Project, for which you’ll prepare a programme for a substantial public performance. The content and structure of this project will be negotiated with course tutors.
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