Our Music degree will allow you to develop a wide range of creative abilities, whilst deepening your understanding of music and how it works. You’ll be able to explore different styles, genres and traditions, develop as a performer, and create your own music. You'll choose from a range of modules on subjects like popular music, experimental music, film and stage music, world music, music analysis, and early music, and can choose to keep your music studies broad or to specialise as a composer, musicologist or performer.

Why study Music at Huddersfield?

• You’ll study in state-of-the-art professional standard facilities, with access to a range of rehearsal spaces, industry-standard recording studios, two dedicated concert halls, and a large selection of equipment and instruments for you to use.
• You’ll work with experienced tutors, internationally recognised researchers, and visiting industry professionals, including our team of leading instrumental and vocal teachers.
• QS World University Subject Rankings 2021 ranked the University of Huddersfield 8th in the UK for 'Performing Arts', and we were awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize for our ‘world-leading work to promote, produce and present contemporary music to an international audience'.
• You'll be able to explore the latest new music in the annual Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and our label-defying Electric Spring Festival.
• You’ll be encouraged to get involved in large and small ensembles, choirs and bands, including orchestra, symphonic wind orchestra, brass band, various classical and pop choirs, big band, funk, soul, folk and reggae groups, and a huge array of originals bands.

Placements

In addition to the short term (8 week) work placement in your final year Work and Professional Practice module, this course offers you the opportunity to take an optional one-year (48 week) work placement after your second year, in the UK or abroad. Previous placement providers have included BBC Music Magazine, Kirklees Music School, AVID, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Buxton Opera House and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

Your Career

Studying Music at Huddersfield provides numerous opportunities for you to develop the professional skills and connections that will help you succeed in the field as a graduate. Every aspect of our courses - performance, composition, musicology, education, and arts administration - includes significant opportunities to work alongside leading music professionals in workshops, masterclasses, rehearsals and in a working environment.

A selection of companies that have employed Huddersfield graduates in recent years include The Band of Household Cavalry, Elmhurst Ballet School and Nottingham Music School. Many graduates go on to work freelance and establish a portfolio career while many go on to postgraduate study.**