BMUS (Hons) Popular Music Performance & Songwriting
DURATION
3 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
If you wish to forge your own, exciting path by performing and composing your music then BMus (Hons) Popular Music Performance & Songwriting degree is right for you.
Perform and compose music with our BMus Popular Music Performance and Songwriting degree. Throughout the course, you’ll learn the necessary skills to have a sustainable and successful career in the music industry of today – and tomorrow.
You’ll gain invaluable stage experience as well as build expertise around performing music, creating parts, and interpreting songs. You’ll focus on core topics of performance, technique, musicianship, theory, and technology. These topics will ensure that you have all the necessary tools to be articulate and expressive in your chosen musical and compositional output.
Once you have this foundational knowledge under your belt, you can tailor your course according to your own goals and aspirations via our range of optional modules. Our optional modules allow you to specialize in certain areas that interest you the most. These include creative performance, complementary instrument skills, global music styles, technology, writing for media, recording, teaching, and research. By the time you graduate, you’ll have a broad portfolio of skills to succeed in whichever career you choose.
Day-to-day learning will take place in large live rooms, smaller studio settings, and lecture-based classrooms. You’ll also have the chance to collaborate with other aspiring industry professionals. These collaborations are possible because of our flourishing BIMM community that brings together talented students from all areas of the music industry.
Key Facts
- Mode of Attendance: Full-time
- Length of course: This course is taught as a three-year course at levels four, five, and six.
- Awarding institution: BIMM University (UK)
- Campus delivery: Berlin
- Language of study: English
- Final award: BMus (Hons) in Popular Music Performance and Songwriting
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Early Confirmation Discount
An early confirmation discount for study in the UK of £2,000 or €2,000 for study in Germany or Ireland for each year of study is available to all international students ineligible for home (domestic) fees who have an offer to study with us at any of our campuses in the UK, Germany or Ireland.
Discount eligibility
To be eligible for the Early Confirmation Discount, you must:
- Be an overseas applicant ineligible for home (domestic) fees
- Apply and receive an offer to study a BIMM University course
- Accept your offer
- Pay your deposit, if applicable, by the deadline of 15th June 2024
- The scholarship will automatically be deducted from your fees when you enroll.
This discount cannot be used in conjunction with any other discount, offer, or scholarship.
Future Talent Scholarship
Launching for September 2024 entry, the new Future Talent Scholarships provide a full 3-year tuition fee for undergraduate students studying courses in music, film, acting, or creative technology. These scholarships are aimed at candidates from low-income households and/or groups under-represented in the creative industries. We are looking to support those who demonstrate talent in their chosen discipline, strong creative potential, and a high motivation for a career in the creative industries.
The scholarship offers financial support, a supportive training environment, and a skills and career development program designed to support progression to future careers in the creative industries.
Curriculum
Our undergraduate degree courses allow you to define your own route to success via a range of optional modules. First, you’ll learn the necessary employability skills and find where you’ll fit in the industry. Then, you’ll be able to build your course according to your interests and career aspirations.
Year 1
- The Creative Industries
- Core Instrument Skills
- Performance Skills
- Songwriting Techniques
- The Creative Industries & You
- Applied Instrument Skills
- Collaboration and Performance
- Digital Arrangement for Songwriters
Year 2
- Defining Your Practice in Context
- Interpretive Instrument Skills
- Music Creation with Technology
- Exploring Practice Through Collaboration
- Digital Performance Portfolio
- Songwriting & Arrangement
Year 3
- Final Project
- Performance Showcase
- Showcase & Showreel
- Final Project
- Professional Portfolio
- 3 option modules
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Progression
Graduates can progress directly to employment in the recording industry, the live music industry, the film and TV industry, the audio post-production industry and education industry.