Welcome to your BMus Popular Music Performance programme

About your BMus Popular Music Performance Degree

The ICMP BMus (Hons) Popular Music Performance degree is for students who aspire to reach the highest levels of musicianship and build a successful and sustainable career as a portfolio musician in today’s modern and diverse music industry. 

This dynamic, challenging, and industry-relevant course will help you develop the playing, performance, business, technical and theoretical skills needed to succeed as a career musician. The study of established genres, styles, and repertoire sits at the core of the BMus degree, and you’ll develop a wide and comprehensive understanding of genre conventions through the study of your principal instrument, enabling you to work across a range of performance and creative contexts. The course includes a variety of learning activities that cover performance, music theory, music production, arranging, technique, sight-reading, and more. 

While you’ll be challenged to achieve outstanding technical skills on your primary instrument, you'll also be encouraged to explore a secondary instrument which includes percussion/keyboards (vocalists) and backing vocals/keyboards (bassists, drummers and guitarists). 

You’ll receive tuition from our world-class teaching faculty throughout this three-year degree, learning from a team of highly esteemed musicians with active careers in the music industry and higher education sector.