Music

This flexible and challenging programme will allow you to specialise and develop your own musical interests while acquiring a solid, broad-based education in aesthetics, analysis, composition, ethnomusicology, music history and performance.

ELP programs are offered by universities or pathway institutions to assist students in achieving the language proficiency required for academic studies. You can get admitted to your course with a lower language requirement if you do an ELP program.

The skills developed within a music degree help our students to progress to a wide range of careers, both within and beyond the music profession. graduates have gone on to careers with the bbc, arts councils, glyndebourne opera, english national opera, universities, oxford university press, the national trust, and london symphony orchestra, along with a range of other industrial, commercial, educational, and charitable organisations. employability skills are embedded in modules at the school of music so that you will learn both music-specific and academic skills that are transferable to other domains, especially the workplace. our second-year modules on the business of music are designed to help you better understand different branches of the music profession and provide an opportunity to undertake a short placement in a music-related or arts-related area. our annual series of talks on careers in music offer a great chance to meet professionals active in a range of fields such as performance, music education, music journalism, arts and artist management, production and licensing, and composing for media.

Work while you study

You can also work on a UK student visa, from 10 to 20 hours per week during the academic year, 40 hours per week or full-time during vacations.

Partnerships

Most universities in Wales have partnerships with different companies and organisations to ensure their students get enough professional training as students. In addition to increasing their students' chances to get hired by one of the universities. Cardiff University has partnerships with the following companies: