Composition and Creative Music Practice MA

University of Limerick

The MA Composition and Creative Music Practice is a unique, one-year, full-time postgraduate programme for composers, sound artists, improvisers and performers from all music traditions who wish to develop their own individual artistic practice and explore cross-genre, cross-arts and cross-cultural creativity.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.

Irish World Academy of Music and Dance