Music
Music
The musical focus at Brunel is firmly in the present, making the most of recent developments and changes, and looking creatively at the future. Brunel offers four undergraduate programmes in music, all firmly focussed on the music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Brunel does not ignore music of the past, but views it through the prism of contemporary musical activity, while providing a strong base of knowledge and craft to enable students to be flexible, skilful and creative 21st century musicians.
Exceptional staff
Staff include some of the leading figures in European contemporary music: composers John Croft, Christopher Fox and Colin Riley, ensemble music innovator and improvisation leader Peter Wiegold, renowned musicologist Bob Gilmore, jazz musician Frank Griffith, electronic music experimentalists Harald Muenz and Carl Faia and leading contemporary pianist Sarah Nicolls.
Flexible, original courses
Brunel offers a number of undergraduate (BMus and BA) programmes, and supervision is also offered at MPhil and PhD levels.
Whether you are interested in performing, composing, or studying the music of today, whether using traditional instruments or new technologies, Brunel offers a programme which will provide you with both the necessary professional skills and a rigorous academic grounding. Many ‘specialist’ music degrees are simply pathways through a generic music degree; but at Brunel we offer specially designed programmes focussing on the skills needed by a composer, performer, sonic artist, or musicology. But in all of these degrees you also have the opportunity to pursue other areas, with options in performance, composition, popular music and music technology, regardless of which degree you choose.
All programmes also give you the opportunity to study the social, perceptual, and theoretical aspects of music, and to undertake a practical or written special project of your own choosing at Level 3.
