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Advanced PgDip

The Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Music (Professional Performance) is the most intensive and demanding of our postgraduate performance courses and is intended for outstanding musicians in possession of a postgraduate qualification in performance and already on the threshold of a professional career. The course aims to provide you with the opportunity to progress your existing musical skills to professional performance standard and to develop originality and artistry in the presentation of musical styles. As well as deepening your musical comprehension and interpretative skills, the course also offers the chance to enhance your presentation and communication skills.

The AdvPgDip is available in one of four divisions:

• Instrumental Performance
• Piano Accompaniment
• Opera Repetiteur
• Vocal Performance

Specialist tuition is available for 45 hours over the duration of the course, and may include the study of related second instruments and lessons with more than one teacher, as appropriate. In common with PgDip/MMus students, you will undertake a support programme of Performance Practice lectures and a Professional Portfolio module. The latter consists of tutorials which help to guide the design of a programme of supporting activities in the context of your career aspirations.

You will undertake three major assessments, normally in public performance conditions. Options include solo recital, chamber music, and performance with orchestra (subject to availability).

“The ‘APD’ is a course like no other I know of; the opportunities are superb: well-publicised recitals examined by top international players and the opportunity to play a concerto with the Conservatoire orchestra, for example. Michael Harris is quite simply a legend of the orchestral clarinet world, having appeared on countless recordings with many different orchestras and as for Tim Lines... well, it’s not anywhere that you can study with a former principal of both the LSO and the CBSO. It’s fantastic to be given such great opportunities, which keep me constantly challenged and improving.”