The Diploma in Music Teaching and Performance trains effective and confident practical music teachers in the one-to-one teaching setting. The course offers a professional Diploma qualification accredited by Trinity College Dublin.
You can complete the course as a full time student over one year, or part-time over two years. The academic year is 30 weeks with lessons and classes coming to about 12 hours per week. Part-time students would have an approximately 6 hour weekly load over two years.
The Diploma in Music Teaching and Performance course provides students with three alternative study pathways:
It can act as a stand-alone course, attracting advanced school leavers who wish to spend a year studying music intensively. It will provide you with a high standard of playing, solid musicianship and teaching techniques, and a qualification that allows you to teach your Instrument/Voice
It can act as a one-year post-degree qualification for those postgraduate students who didn't specialise in music performance but wish to immerse themselves in a seriously focussed performance programme prior to Masters studies, or becoming an instrumental/vocal teacher
It can act as a direct pathway into year 2 the RIAM B.Mus. Performance degree subject to reaching the required performing standard
