'Perfect Fifth' the performance included 'Shape of My Heart' by Sting

L-R Michelle Yu (piano), Wendy Lewis (violin), Harriet Green (violin), Jack Halsey (cello), Crystal Pang (clarinet).

Set: Final Music Recitals April 2010

'Link' playing at the Venue 1/12/09

Matthew Bickerton, George Currie, Aneurin Rees, Daniel Vale, Adam Overton, Adam Leeson.

Set: Big Night Out

Music at Oxford Brookes

The Music Department at Oxford Brookes offers a choice of Undergraduate Music BA (Hons) as a single or combined honours degree and three Postgraduate / Graduate courses:  MA in Music, MA in Composition and Sonic Art and MA in Contemporary Arts and Music, with the last two taught as part of the Interdisciplinary Arts Practices MA programme. The Department also offers Post-Doctoral Research in a number of areas including Composition and Musicology. We have a reputation for innovation and excellence in teaching and research.

Excellent programmes and teaching

All of the academic staff in Music are active in Research with interests ranging from Opera and Popular Music to Acoustic and Electroacoustic composition.

We offer a broad-based approach to the subject, covering the music of both the past and the present, both ‘classical’ and ‘popular’. We aim to help students understand music critically and creatively, the latter through live performance and composition, or mediated through music technology.

Music is one of several programmes of study offered by the Department of Arts which is part of the School of Arts and Humanities at Oxford Brookes.

Music BA (Hons)

The Music BA (Hons) course has Composition and Musicology at the heart of the teaching. Performance is not compulsory for Music students at Brookes, though most do opt to take this route. We mediate between students’ very different experiences of music before coming to university and provide them with the necessary skills to meet the demands of today’s employment market and the changing nature of the music industry.

Piano Migrations; Kathy Hinde, Interdisciplinary Arts Practices MA programmes (2008)

Postgraduate Study in Music

The MA in Music allows students to choose between pathways in Music and Popular Culture, Music on Stage and on Screen, or Contemporary Practice in Composition.

The MA in Composition and Sonic Art encourages active engagement with contemporary debates in composition and sonic art and students are able to focus on acoustic, acousmatic or electro-acoustic composition, improvisation, the use of live electronics, site specific work; installation; sonic art practices – or any combination of these.

The MA in Contemporary Arts and Music provides an opportunity for artists and composers to reflect upone their working practices, develop new skills, collaborate with other practitioners and present and discuss their work in an interdisciplinary context.

The Music department works in partnership with Fine art to deliver the Interdisciplinary Arts Practices MA programme. The MAs within this  programme position musical composition in a cross-disciplinary context with Fine Art and enable students to view their creative development in that context.

Music Performance at Brookes

You can participate in the orchestra, choir or big band; and each year a musical is produced by the Fortune Players. Weekly lunchtime concerts on campus allow student soloists or ensembles to play to a friendly audience, and provide an opportunity for composers to present their work.

Student groups can also perform at gigs, both in the University and around Oxford. If you undertake advanced-level study in performance, you will take part in one of the high-profile public recitals towards the end of the academic year.

Excellent Employment and Progression

We prepare our graduates for a life where music can be a means of employment and a lifelong source of pleasure and intellectual challenge.

Our graduates excel in employment and progression to further academic study (MA and PhD).