Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Commercial Modern Music

Leaving Certificate Requirements

Minimum Number of
Subjects	Higher
6 at F2/O6/H7	2 H5's
Other Grade Requirements
Applicants must attend an assessment/audition.

Additional Requirements

Applicants welcome to make a late application by 1st May at 5.15pm or use CAO change of mind before 1st July at 5.15pm

You must attend an assessment/audition to establish your playing standard and eligibility for the course.

Video auditions can be arranged for applicants who may be living overseas.

QQI/FET Requirements

QQI/FET Award Required	Additional Requirements
Any full Level 5 or 6 award	Level 5: Distinctions in 5 modules is required AND Audition Level 6: Audition Required

In addition to the QQI minimum entry requirements, QQI quotas and QQI points apply. The max QQI points awarded is 390. Further details at www.tudublin.ie/qqi

As with all courses at BIMM, the BA (Hons) in Commercial Modern Music is designed to help students establish a sustainable career within the music industry.

At BIMM Institute Dublin 85% of our 2017 group of graduates were employed within six months of graduation, working in the music industry as artists and performers, session musicians, in artist management, record labels, music publishing, social media entrepreneurship and live music production. Many graduates have also gone on to pursue postgraduate studies in fields such as performance, music research, composition and teaching.

Graduates have toured the world with high-profile artists such as James Vincent McMorrow and Dua Lipa. A number of Dublin graduates have embarked on successful careers such as The Fontaines DC, Maria Somerville, Thumper and AE Mak and Peter Walsh who has a successful career in music publishing and Gemma Bradley who is now a DJ on BBC Radio 1 in the UK.

Shortly after graduating from BIMM Institute Dublin, Fontaines D.C. signed with the highly revered independent label Partisan Records. The band's debut LP Dogrel was released to critical acclaim in April of 2019, reaching no.4 in the Irish album chart and no.9 in the UK and was nominated for both the Mercury Music Prize in the UK and the Choice Music Prize in Ireland. Later that year it was selected as Album Of The Year by Rough Trade and BBC6 Music. Their second studio album, A Hero's Death, entered the UK and Irish album charts at no.2 in April 2022, which brought the band a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Act 2021. The bands third and most recent album, Skinty Fia, soared to no.1 in the Official Album Charts in the UK and Ireland in early 2022.  

BIMM group students have scored an unprecedented 30 UK Top 40 singles and Top 20 albums, including George Ezra and James Bay. Other graduates have gone on to have successful careers in the wider music industry such as booking agent Natashia Bent who works with Foals and First Aid Kit.

Graduate Job Titles:

This course enhances student employability prospects in a variety of areas in the music and creative industries including the following: commercial band performance, live session playing, playing on recording sessions, band management, music journalism, live TV and radio broadcasting, tour management, stage management, film, game and multimedia licensing and music composition, performing in both wedding and cover function bands, musical theatre, working in a variety of roles in music venues, event promotion, Artiste and Repertoire and record labels, working in live music agencies and teaching music.

Graduate Employers:

• Aiken Promotions
• Ali Coffee Casting
• Atlantic Records
• BBC (The Voice)
• Disney Land USA
• Faction Records
• Festival Republic.
• First Music Contact
• IMRO,
• ITV (X factor)
• Liebbman Promotions,
• Lindsey Holmes Publicity
• MCD Productions
• Music Maker
• Music Network,
• Philip McGee (Producer)
• PIAS, Downtown Music Publishing,
• Premier Entertainment International (Cruise Ships)
• Sky
• Patrick's Festival
• The Abbey Theatre
• The Button Factory
• Ultra Music Publishing & Records,
• Warner Music,
• Whelans