Start your career as a creative and entrepreneurial musician. You'll respond to challenging artistic briefs while developing innovative, critically informed approaches to the business of making a living from your music.

This course offers the skills and opportunities to make unique and contemporary popular music that is commercially viable. As a performer, songwriter and self-producer, you'll play a diverse range of styles and explore how connecting with other art forms can enhance the future of your sound.

• Live performance and regular music showcases in our high-spec Academy for Music and Theatre Arts
• Studio recording and production with state-of-the-art equipment
• Key industry links with studios, record labels, promotion companies and venues
• Frequent, high profile visiting lecturers, eg Adrian Utley (Portishead), Darcus Beese (Island Records)