Popular Music Performance with Foundation BMus

This course is a brand-new offering within the London College of Music’s portfolio, and focusses on developing the creative, entrepreneurial, musicianship, and technical skills needed to cultivate a career in the eclectic and diverse field of popular music performance.<br/><br/>During the course, you will:<br/>- Receive bespoke 1:1 tuition with our team of internationally acclaimed professional performers<br/><br/><br/>- Develop your musicianship and interpretation skills<br/><br/><br/>- Engage with current theories in historical and social popular musicology and performance practice<br/><br/><br/>- Deepen your understanding of today’s popular music industry<br/><br/><br/>- Nurture the entrepreneurial skills required for the contemporary musician.<br/><br/><br/>Throughout the course, there are opportunities to collaborate and work with students from across LCM’s vast creative community, enhancing your learning experience and developing your network of like-minded industry professionals.<br/><br/>Complementing LCM’s existing popular music performance-based degree courses, the BMus (Hons) Popular Music Performance programme provides future popular music professionals with a thorough, industry-facing educational experience. This degree offers you the opportunity to cultivate performance-focussed skills which are vital to you as a contemporary musician. This includes a secure technical foundation, a high level of performing ability, a strong creative drive, an advanced knowledge of musical concepts – including secure music literacy and critical listening skills – as well as an exploration of the placement of popular music as a broader sociological construct. This diverse provision will ensure that you are equipped with a strong, creative, and entrepreneurial drive, and an ability to employ a wide range of employable skillsets.<br/><br/>The course’s philosophy takes a developmental and strategic approach focussing on investigation, evaluation, and creation. This begins with a range of subjects designed to develop knowledge of performance, music scholarship, and musical arrangement before shifting to a more critical performance training; engaging with practice research methods as you learn to manage more advanced collaborative performance scenarios. In your final year, you will direct self-guided performance projects that demonstrate your acquisition of industry-standard skills and conceptual considerations. As a graduate from this course, you will be a pioneer and innovator; recognising contemporary industry practices to build, drive, and maintain a career as a versatile and employable musician.<br/><br/>This course includes a foundation year.