Popular Music Performance MA

Leeds Beckett University

MA Popular Music Performance course helps you sharpen your skills, define your creative identity, and build a thriving career in today's music industries.

You'll explore performance as both a creative and research-informed discipline. Through live practice, recording, interdisciplinary projects, and critical reflection, you'll develop advanced technical, expressive, and entrepreneurial skills to create music that's widely appealing and accessible.

The course encourages experimentation, collaboration, and self-directed growth, ensuring your work is original, professional, and relevant. You'll engage with current professional practices while drawing on cutting-edge research, giving you the tools to adapt, innovate, and lead in an ever-changing arts sector.

As part of this course, you'll:

• Design and deliver original performance projects across live, recorded, and audio-visual formats
• Explore diverse musical influences to shape your unique artistic identity
• Apply research methods and reflective practice to inform and evolve your creative approach
• Collaborate across disciplines, including with staff and peers from production, film, and performing arts
• Build the entrepreneurial skills to sustain a dynamic music career in the arts