MUSIC PRODUCTION, PERFORMANCE AND BUSINESS BA Honours
Course summary
Our Music Production, Performance and Business BA degree will equip you for a successful career in all areas of the commercial and popular music industries.
Our course will inspire you to develop expertise and experience in the key fields of commercial music: music production, music performance and music business/enterprise. In today's industry, only by having knowledge and understanding of all three specific areas will you be sufficiently prepared for employment and a career in music.
Whether you aspire to be a music artist, producer, performer, songwriter, composer, musicologist, journalist, DJ, technologist, entrepreneur, business specialist or educator, our course will nurture your aspirations and ensure you develop a broad range of transferable, music-related skills.
We incorporate a strong focus on reflective practice and contextual studies, meaning that our graduates are positioned to become innovators and thought leaders for the future of the constantly evolving music industries.
Our music industry links in the thriving London community allow us to provide guest lectures from leading professionals and maximise opportunities for you to network and begin your career while on the course.
Based at Harrow Campus, the course also offers unique opportunities to collaborate with students from other academic disciplines including film, TV, radio, fashion and media, and provides networking opportunities with relevant professional societies and organisations. As a result, our graduates have excellent employment opportunities and the ability to build successful careers in many diverse areas of the creative industries.
CAREERS
Our graduates have gone on to have huge and diverse success. Our alumni include members of the bands Rudimental, The Feeling, Plan B and Arctic Lake as well as successful artists such as Jamie Woon, Tom Baxter, Emmy The Great, globally established trance act Above and Beyond, and Grammy Award-winning Al Shux.
Work experience
We have strong links with various record labels, publishers, writers and managers, as well as the music rights organisations PRS and PPL. We encourage as many students as possible to attend industry events to grow their contacts and seek work opportunities, by providing many students with free passes to attend industry conferences, workshops and expos.
We invite industry professionals to speak at events on campus, providing students with additional opportunities to extend their networks and to ask key questions.
Our students have completed internships for various record labels and artist management companies, which in the past have included:
- AEG
- All Points East
- Beggars Banquet
- Big Sync Music
- British Summer Time Festival
- East City Management
- Full Time Hobby
- Mute
- Solar Management
Job roles
Our course equips you for diverse career opportunities, allowing you to follow a specific career path, while also gaining the transferable skills needed for employment in all areas of the music industry.
You'll be encouraged to develop your professional status while studying on the course, and to incorporate professional and industry-focused activities into your academic work.
University of Westminster music graduates have gone on to have successful careers as:
- Academics
- Artist managers
- Branding and marketing experts
- Entertainment lawyers
- Film sound designers
- Freelance musicians
- Live music promoters
- Music artists
- Music educators
- Music journalists
- Music producers
- Music publishers
- Music therapists
- Music venue managers
- Record label executives
- Social media managers
- Songwriters
- Studio engineers
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