PgCert
CUKAS Course Code: 500P
The Postgraduate Certificate in Music is a flexible part-time programme offering advanced study in performance or jazz performance. For recent music graduates, the course offers an extra year of focused study in performance with our dedicated team of specialist tutors. Equally, if you’ve been working in music for a few years, it presents an excellent chance to refresh and refocus your performance skills in the light of your career development plans.
Specialist tuition, normally undertaken on an individual basis, is available for 25 hours over the duration of the course. Alongside your first study tuition, you’ll also follow a negotiated programme of supporting activities. You’ll have the chance to configure your own learning experience to suit your professional aspirations through a series of career development tutorials.
You may take part in the broad programme of practical activities offered at the Conservatoire and, normally, audition for places in orchestras, choirs, bands and other elective activities alongside undergraduate students. If you are a vocal student, you will also undertake a specially devised programme of support studies, including languages and stagecraft. You will negotiate your own programme of these optional activities in the light of your individual profile as a musician.
Specialist tuition, normally undertaken on an individual basis, is available for 25 hours over the duration of the course. Alongside your first study tuition, you’ll also follow a negotiated programme of supporting activities. You’ll have the chance to configure your own learning experience to suit your professional aspirations through a series of career development tutorials.
You may take part in the broad programme of practical activities offered at the Conservatoire and, normally, audition for places in orchestras, choirs, bands and other elective activities alongside undergraduate students. If you are a vocal student, you will also undertake a specially devised programme of support studies, including languages and stagecraft. You will negotiate your own programme of these optional activities in the light of your individual profile as a musician.
“I am very proud to be associated with an institution that is fully aware of the modern music world and has made itself entirely able to meet the demands of the younger generation. This is the result of true dedication by members of staff over a long period, with the long-term future of the students in the
forefront of the minds of all those involved.”
Peter Donohoe
Pianist, Conservatoire Vice President, Consultant to the Piano Department
Pianist, Conservatoire Vice President, Consultant to the Piano Department
You will be assessed through performance, including a preliminary exam in January and a semi-public performance in May/June, and through the submission of a portfolio that documents your activities during the year.
The PgCert can be studied as a freestanding course, or as a progression route into further postgraduate study, including our Postgraduate Diploma or Master of Music and Advanced Postgraduate Diploma courses.