About you

If you play or sing music in any style(s) - traditional music, classical music, popular music, or other - and you wish to continue to develop your music skills and knowledge of that style (or styles), while broadening your musical horizons through playing and  learning about music from around the world, this is the course for you. We welcome proficient performers of music in all styles, with or without previous formal music education. Applicants will be required to show proficiency in their own music style(s) at audition.  

 

Why study World Music?

This programme will support you to develop your performance skills in your own current, chosen style(s) of music, while offering you the opportunity to explore and play a wide range of global musics. You will also develop your scholarly and theoretical knowledge of music. In order to offer new insights into the world of music and enhance your creative potential, you will be introduced to a wide range of performance practices and scholarly traditions. You will also study a number of vocational modules that will support you in your development of a fulfilling career.  

 

As a student, you will be based at the world-class Irish World Academy, with its cutting-edge performance and rehearsal spaces, and state-of-the-art technological infrastructure. The co-operative education period (Year 3, Semester 1) allows you to construct your own work-experience, providing valuable experience of the opportunities open to you when you graduate. The programme prepares you for many different career paths in areas including professional performance, composition, academia, arts curation and management, media, archive work, music production, and combinations of these.