Music Master's degrees
Join a creative hub of music learning, research and creativity with high-specification purpose-built studio, rehearsal, and performance spaces.
Define your sound
Our Music Master's programmes are designed to transform your passion into expertise and direct your ambition on to the right path for you.
We support a wide range of musical traditions - from Western Classical and global folk to contemporary popular music as well as Indian and Chinese music - ensuring you're exposed to a full spectrum of sound.
Guided by expert staff and industry professionals, you can develop not just as a musician, but as a leader, educator, and innovator equipped to make waves in the world of music, education and creative industries.
Our Music Master's degrees
Postgraduate funding and scholarships
Postgraduate scholarships, prizes, and bursaries are often available to UK, EU, and international students.
Some of these are University-wide and subject to eligibility, whereas others are subject-specific.
You can find out more about the funding and scholarships that are available to you on the University's Scholarship and Bursaries website.
Connection and impact
We have expertise in classical, popular, and folk music. Our expertise ranges from established mainstream approaches, to the more exploratory edges of musical activity. Our one-to-one instrumental and vocal teachers include the best in the region.
Music is a socially-engaged activity, ranging across:
- education
- community music
- politics
- policy
- social and environmental justice
Our expert staff will help you to see how you can make a difference in the world.
The city as your stage
Newcastle is unrivalled as a centre for DIY music activities. It hosts classical choirs, underground electronica, and folk sessions all on our doorstep, and we have excellent connections across the city.
This immersive approach to studying music has been hugely successful, with many of our graduates going on to work in an impressive array of different occupations.
