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Bath Spa University
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Great opportunities for music-making and an exciting and varied programme in classical, jazz, musical theatre, opera and world music.

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This is a highly practical course. Every week a day is dedicated to ensemble performance and related activities for students in all years - these include choirs, orchestras, wind band, big bands and gamelan. There are also numerous other ensembles including brass, wind and string groups and an experimental ensemble called Material. There are regular student performances through the year, both at the Michael Tippett Centre, and in Bath as well as beyond. Each year, the School promotes opera and musical theatre productions, in which music students …

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Great opportunities for music-making and an exciting and varied programme in classical, jazz, musical theatre, opera and world music.

Performance

This is a highly practical course. Every week a day is dedicated to ensemble performance and related activities for students in all years - these include choirs, orchestras, wind band, big bands and gamelan. There are also numerous other ensembles including brass, wind and string groups and an experimental ensemble called Material. There are regular student performances through the year, both at the Michael Tippett Centre, and in Bath as well as beyond. Each year, the School promotes opera and musical theatre productions, in which music students take part. Recent operas have included Philip Glass's Satyagraha, Mozart's The Magic Flute, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Handel's Semele and Puccini's Il Trittico. Musical theatre productions have included Sondheim's Into the Woods, CompanyA Little Night Music and Seussical.

Composition

Composition students work in a wide variety of musical styles and genres and have regular opportunities of working with professional performers. Recent visiting ensembles who have performed student work have included Ensemble Bash, Plus Minus, the Kreutzer Quartet and the New London Chamber Ensemble. There are also regular opportunities for performances of student work by our own student ensembles and there is a commission project for all final year composition students.

Visiting performers and composers

We have regular visits from high-profile international performers and composers. Recent visitors have included Peter Donohoe, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Judith Weir, Joanna MacGregor, Tim Hugh, David Matthews, Trevor Wishart, Denis Smalley, Graham Fitkin and Kathy Hinde.

Facilities

Based at the Michael Tippett Centre, we have excellent facilities including:

  • A purpose-built concert hall with superb acoustics
  • 17 practice rooms, three with electronically variable acoustic
  • A wide range of medieval, renaissance and baroque instruments, and a large collection of percussion and orchestral instruments
  • A Javanese Gamelan
  • A high spec music technology laboratory
  • Five recording studios 
  • Two band rehearsal rooms
  • Large well-stocked Music Library and a wide range of online musical resources

Bath and nearby Bristol are busy centres for performance with many international music festivals, touring operas, concerts and shows. Bath particularly has an extensive semi-professional and amateur life with many opportunities for students to join in music-making in the city.

Partnerships

We are proud to have very valuable partnerships with a variety of organisations in the region. These enable our student work to reach a wide audience and they also facilitate student placements and professional networking. They include:

  • Bath International Music Festival
  • Bath Philharmonia
  • Bath Abbey
  • The Holburne Museum
  • Iford Arts
  • Wiltshire Music Centre
  • Bath Young Recital Artists Trust

Why study Music?

There is a strong practical element to the course. Each year there are music-making opportunities ranging from large works for choir and orchestra (such as Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, Faure’s Requiem, and Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms) through to opera and musical theatre productions. There are regular opportunities for students to perform in prestigious venues off campus - recent venues have included the Assembly Rooms, Guildhall, Bath Abbey, Wells Cathedral, Bath Pump Room and Oxford's Holywell Room. Our jazz students perform widely too, including in our arts centre Burdall's Yard. There are also opportunities to develop teaching and community music skills, to explore musicology and to develop interdisciplinary creative projects with students from other courses within the university.

Ratio of applications to places

In 2011-12 we have had 290 applications to 42 places

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