There's a whole host of options for postgraduate study and this section should help you find the course that is right for you. When applying, make sure you are well prepared, as some courses require you to submit additional supporting resources, such as a portfolio or a research proposal, alongside your application.
Further Study at Leeds Conservatoire
Find out more information about our postgraduate offering on the Postgraduate Study section of our website.
MA/PGDip Music
Our MA/PGDip Music programme offers you the opportunity to collaborate with leading composers, performers and producers as you develop your skills as a professional-level musician.
MA Musical Direction
Part of our brand new suite of Theatre MAs, the MA Musical Direction is designed to fully-prepare highly-skilled musicians to embark upon a career as a musical director. With tailored one-to-one classes, students will hone their musicianship and be exposed to a wide-range of working practices, working alongside key practitioners, companies and industry professionals from across the region.
MA Dramaturgy
Our MA in Dramaturgy focuses on the development of new work and individual artistry through collaborative practice. Whether as a practitioner shaping theatre though storytelling, dance or music, or as a dramaturg in a literary department dissecting text, students will be introduced to a multitude of ways of creating new theatre. Working with leading practitioners and institutions from across the North, students will learn the key components of storytelling, character and structure.
MA Musical Direction
MA Musical Direction is designed to fully-prepare highly-skilled musicians to embark upon a career as a musical director. With tailored one-to-one classes, students will hone their musicianship and be exposed to a wide-range of working practices, working alongside key practitioners, companies and industry professionals from across the region.
MA Musical Theatre Company
The Musical Theatre Company course combines rigorous conservatoire training with continued, collaborative, student-led development of new work, preparing students not only to gain employment in the musical theatre industry, but as artists creating their own work.
MA Musical Theatre Creatives
Our MA Musical Theatre Creatives is an individually-tailored MA for anyone interested in creating new musical theatre and a professional career as a creative in the industry, whether as a composer, writer, choreographer, lyricist or something that has yet to be defined.
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Postgraduate Study at Other Conservatoires and Specialist Institutions
Music
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
- Advanced Certificate
- Artist Diploma
- MMus/MComp in Composition
- MMus/MPerf in Performance
- MMus/MPerf in Performance: Orchestral Artistry
- MA Music Therapy
- MA Opera Making and Writing
- PGCert Performance Teaching
Selection is by audition and applications are accepted using their online application form.
Royal Academy of Music
- MA
- MMus
- PGCert
- Professional Diploma
- Advanced Diploma
- MPhil
Applications are accepted through UCAS Conservatoires.
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
- MMus/PGDip Brass Band Conducting
- MMus/PGDip Choral Conducting
- MMus/PgCert/PgDip Composition
- MMus/PgCert/PgDip Experimental Performance
- MMus/PgCert/PgDip Instrumental Performance
- MMus/PgCert/PgDip Jazz
- MMus/PgCert/PgDip Music Technology
- MA Musicology
- MMus/PgDip Orchestral Performance (Strings)
- MMus/PgCert/PgDip Vocal Performance
Applications are accepted through UCAS Conservatoires.
Royal College of Music
- Graduate Diploma in Vocal Performance
- Master of Performance (MPerf)
- Master of Composition (MComp)
- MMus Performance
- MMus Composition
- MSc Performance Science
- MMusEd Teaching Musician
- Artist Diploma in Performance
- Artist Diploma in Opera
- Artist Diploma in Composition
Applications are accepted through UCAS Conservatoires.
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Music
- Artist Diploma
- Historically Informed Performance Practice
- MA Psychology in The Arts (Music)
- MMus/MA Timpani and Percussion
- MMus/MA Traditional Music
- MMus Keyboard
- MMus Opera
- MMus/MA
- MMus/MA Brass
- MMus/MA Chamber Music
- MMus/MA Composition
- MMus/MA Conducting
- MMus/Ma Guitar and Harp
- MMus/MA Jazz
- MMus/Ma Piano Accompaniment
- MMus/MA Piano for Dance
- MMus/MA Repetiteurship
- MMus/MA Strings
- MMus/MA Vocal Performance
- MMus/MA Woodwind
- Performance and Pedagogy
- Piano Accompaniment
- Repetiteurship
- Strings
Applications are accepted through UCAS Conservatoires.
Royal Northern College of Music
- Master of Music (MMus)
- Master of Performance (MPerf)
- PgDip Advanced Studies
- Conducting
- European Chamber Music Master (ECMAster)
- PGCE in Music with Specialist Instrumental Teaching
- Advanced Orchestral Strings Programme
Applications are accepted through UCAS Conservatoires.
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
- MA Advanced Opera Performance
- MA Arts Management
- MA Jazz
- MA Opera Directing
- MA Stage and Event Management
- MMus Brass Band Conducting
- MMus Chamber Music Performance
- MMus Choral Conducting
- MMus Collaborative Creative Practice
- MMus Collaborative Piano
- MMus Composer-Performer
- MMus Composition
- MMus Historical Performance
- MMus Multi Instrument Woodwind Performance
- MMus Orchestral Conducting
- MMus Orchestral Performance
- Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Professional Practice
Applications are accepted through UCAS Conservatoires.
Trinity Laban
Trinity Laban offers Artist, Professional and Graduate Diplomas, MA Music Education and Performance, and MMus with specialisms of Composition, Jazz, Keyboard, Strings, Vocal Studies, Wind, Brass and Percussion.
Applications are accepted through UCAS Conservatoires.
Institute for Contemporary Music Performance
- MA Music Business
- MA Songwriting
- MMus Popular Music Performance (Guitar, Bass, Drums)
- MMus Popular Music Performance (Vocals)
- MA Creative Music Production
- MA Vocal Studies
- MA Commercial Songwriting and Production
Applications are made using their online Application form.
BIMM Institute
- MA Popular Music Practice
- MA Learning and Teaching in the Creative Industries
Applications are made using their online Application form
University for the Creative Arts
- MA/MSc International Music Management
Applications are made using their online Application Form
The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
- MA Music Industry Management
Applications Made Directly to the institution.
Drama and Performing Arts
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
- MFA Professional Acting
- MA Screen Acting
- MA Drama Writing
- MFA Professional Voice Studies
- MA Drama Directing
Applications are made via UCAS
Drama Studio London
- MA/PgDip Professional Acting
- MFA Professional Acting
Applications Made using their online form
East15
- MA Acting
- MA/MFA Theatre Directing
- MA/MFA Acting for Digital Media
Applications made using their online form
Guildford School of Acting
- MA/MFA Acting
- MA/MFA Movement Direction
- MA/MFA Musical Theatre
- MA Stage and Production Management
- MA/MFA Teaching and Practice of Voice and Singing
- MA/MFA Theatre (Part-time Onlline)
Applications made online through the University of Surrey
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
- PgCert Performance Teaching
- MPhil/PHD Research Degrees
Selection is by audition and applications are accepted using their online application form
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
- MFA Professional Acting
- MA Classical Acting for the Professional Theatre
- MFA Classical Acting: Performance and Practice
- MA Directing
- MA/MFA Musical Theatre
Applications made online via their website
Mountview
- MA Musical Direction
- MA Theatre Directing
- MA Theatre for Community and Education
- MA Site-specific Theatre Practice
- MA Creative Producing
- MA Performance – Acting or Musical Theatre
- PgDip Stage and Production Management
Applications made via their website
Rose Bruford College
- MA/MFA Actor and Performer Training
- MA/MFA Actor Musicianship
- MA/MFA Collaborative Theatre Making
- MA/MFA Contemporary Directing Practice
- MA Queer Performance
- MA/MFA Theatre for Young Audiences
Applications made via their online form
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- MA Musical Theatre (Performance, Musical Directing)
- Professional Graduate Diploma in Musical Directing
- MEd in Learning and Teaching in the Arts
- PG Cert in Learning and Teaching in the Arts
- MA/MFA Classical and Contemporary Text (Acting or Directing)
Application via UCAS
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
- MA Acting for Stage, Screen & Radio
- MA Musical Theatre
- MA Stage and Event Management
- MA Arts Management
Application via UCAS
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- MA Classical Acting
- MA Contemporary Acting
- MA Acting for Screen
- MA/MFA Actor Training and Coaching
- MA/MFA Advanced Theatre Practice
- MA Applied Theatre
- PG Cert Applied Theatre with Young People
- MA/MFA Creative Producing
- MA Drama and Movement Therapy
- MA/MFA Movement: Directing and Teaching
- MA Musical Theatre: Acting and Performance
- MA/MFA Scenography
- MA/MFA Voice Studies: Teaching and Coaching
- MA/MFA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media
Applications made using their online application form
Trinity Laban
Trinity Laban offers a wider range of Dance-led MA, MFA and MSc courses
Application Through UCAS Conservatoires
BIMM Institute
- MA Learning and Teaching in the Creative Industries
Applications using their online Application form
University for the Creative Arts
- PG Cert Creative Education
- MA Filmmaking
- MA/MSc Human Resource Management for the Creative Industries
- MA Screen Acting and Performance
Apply using their online form
Postgraduate Study in West Yorkshire
University of Leeds
Music
- MA Applied Psychology of Music
- MMus Critical and Experimental Composition
- MA Culture, Creativity and Entrepreneurship
- MA Global Performance and Cultural Industries
- MA/PgDip/PgCert Music and Wellbeing
- MA Music Management
- MA Musicology
- MMus/PgDip Performance
Drama and Performing Arts
- MA Applied Theatre and Social Change
- MA/PGDip/PGCert Audiences, Engagement, Participation
- MA Culture, Creativity and Entrepreneurship
- MA Writing for Performance and Digital Media
Applications are made either through UCAS or using the University’s Online application form.
Leeds Beckett University
Music
- MA Sonic Arts
- MA Sound and Music for interactive Games
- MA Music Production
- MA Music for the Moving Image
- MA Sound Design
- MSc Audio and Acoustics
- MA Popular Music and Culture
Drama and Performing Arts
- MA Choreography
- MA Performance
- MA Screenwriting: Feature Film and Continuing Series
Leeds Beckett also offer the opportunity to do a Masters by Research (MRes) in a subject of your choosing, these are dependent on staff availability.
Applications are made either through UCAS or using the University’s Online application form.
University of Huddersfield
Music
- MMus Music Performance
- MA Creative Music Production
- MMus Popular Music Practice
- Secondary Music PGCE with QTS
Drama and Performing Arts
- MRes Drama, Dance and Performance
- Secondary Drama PGCE with QTS
Applications are made either through UCAS or using the University’s Online application form.
Academy of Live Technology
- MA Live Event Design
- MSc Creative Technologies for Live Events
Applications are made either through UCAS or using the Institutions’ Online application form.
