MMus Composition (Intensive) Master of Music - MMus

The MMus Composition programme is available over two years, full-time. In exceptional cases a one year intensive programme is available. For more information, please see our website: http://www.rwcmd.ac.uk/composition

Course overview 

In this advanced course, you’ll work with professional musicians offering specialist tuition in creative compositional approaches and individual support in your personal development as a composer. 

This one-to-one tuition (which we call principal study) will be supported by seminars and practical classes, where you’ll receive feedback from staff and your peers. 

You’ll also take part in skills-based composition tutorials and workshops, as well as advanced performance and recording classes, usually with students from a range of disciplines. 

The focus is on expanding your fluency with instrumentation, style or genre. But you’ll also develop your individual and collaborative artistry and confident communication skills as a musician. 

Opportunities to showcase your work run through the entire programme of study. You can collaborate with industry professionals, work on our drama productions or be invited to pitch to write for College ensembles. To allow you to put into practice what you’ve learnt, your course culminates with a substantial performance of your work in the final term of study. 

Here, you’ll be treated as an individual, working to build your skill set and diversify your work – and, perhaps most importantly, cultivate a future-facing creative outlook that will equip you with the ability to tackle developments and challenges as they arise.