Composition and Creative Music Practice MA

As a one-year full-time or two-year part-time postgraduate programme, the MA Composition and Creative Music Practice is designed to develop individual artistic practice and facilitate collaborative exploration of cross-genre, cross-arts and cross-cultural creativity. Students create acoustic and/or electronic music through an inclusive range of composition, improvisation and performance practices. The programme welcomes students from all music traditions (traditional, folk, popular, world, classical) and sound art practices, working with and/or without music notation.

The MA Composition and Creative Music Practice is:

• Ideal for creative musicians and artists who wish to work within a particular tradition and/or at the intersections of Irish traditional music, classical music, ‘new’ and experimental music and sound art, popular music and global musics.
• Progressive and interdisciplinary in its approach to creativity, supporting cross-arts exploration, collaboration and inventiveness.
• Designed to develop the complementary creative music practices of composition, performance, improvisation, and sound art.
• Committed to developing oral/aural creative processes and/or score-based practices towards the creation of acoustic and/or electro-acoustic music and sound art.
• Inclusive of diverse, local and global traditions and practices.

Please note that due to visa requirements, the two-year part-time version of the programme is only available to those who qualify for visa free study in Ireland.