Bachelor of Music: BMus(Hons)
The four year BMus(Hons) balances training in solo, chamber and orchestral performance with critical enquiry into music past and present: the study of music in context, contemporary cultures and a range of courses developing practical and applied skills.
Key features
- Weekly lessons on your Principal Study
- Opportunities for instrumentalists to undertake Related Study on an instrument related to your Principal Study (e.g. cor anglais or baroque oboe for oboists)
- Second Study tuition is available (audition at start of programme necessary) and students with an equally high level of ability in two areas may undertake Joint Principal Studies
- Faculty-based activities, including chamber music and duo performance coaching, an orchestral training programme, performance classes, language classes (singers), music technology (composers) and improvisation (organists)
- Orchestral and choral projects, workshops and masterclasses in all areas including period instruments
- A range of core units in historical, technical, practical and vocational subjects to provide breadth and depth to your study and help develop key skills such as oral and written communication, team working and problem solving
- A comprehensive range of options in Years 3 and 4, allowing you to specialise in particular areas of interest and expertise
- Career development and advice from the renowned Woodhouse Professional Development Centre
- Exchange opportunities, as part of your RCM studies, with leading international conservatoires. BMus(Hons) students can take a junior year (third year) exchange to the USA or to Australia. Year 3 and 4 students often study in Europe for a term
- The award, to successful students at the end of the programme, of the internationally recognised BMus(Hons) degree under the RCM’s own Royal Charter
Download the PDF below for an overview of the course structure:
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