There's a whole host of options for postgraduate study and this section should help you find the course that is right for you. When applying, make sure you are well prepared, as some courses require you to submit additional supporting resources, such as a portfolio or a research proposal, alongside your application.
Further Study at Leeds Conservatoire
Find out more information about our postgraduate offering on the Postgraduate Study section of our website.
MA/PGDip Music
Our MA/PGDip Music programme offers you the opportunity to collaborate with leading composers, performers and producers as you develop your skills as a professional-level musician.
MA Musical Direction
Part of our brand new suite of Theatre MAs, the MA Musical Direction is designed to fully-prepare highly-skilled musicians to embark upon a career as a musical director. With tailored one-to-one classes, students will hone their musicianship and be exposed to a wide-range of working practices, working alongside key practitioners, companies and industry professionals from across the region.
MA Dramaturgy
Our MA in Dramaturgy focuses on the development of new work and individual artistry through collaborative practice. Whether as a practitioner shaping theatre though storytelling, dance or music, or as a dramaturg in a literary department dissecting text, students will be introduced to a multitude of ways of creating new theatre. Working with leading practitioners and institutions from across the North, students will learn the key components of storytelling, character and structure.
MA Musical Direction
MA Musical Direction is designed to fully-prepare highly-skilled musicians to embark upon a career as a musical director. With tailored one-to-one classes, students will hone their musicianship and be exposed to a wide-range of working practices, working alongside key practitioners, companies and industry professionals from across the region.
MA Musical Theatre Company
The Musical Theatre Company course combines rigorous conservatoire training with continued, collaborative, student-led development of new work, preparing students not only to gain employment in the musical theatre industry, but as artists creating their own work.
MA Musical Theatre Creatives
Our MA Musical Theatre Creatives is an individually-tailored MA for anyone interested in creating new musical theatre and a professional career as a creative in the industries, whether as a composer, writer, choreographer, lyricist or something that has yet to be defined.
Learn more about the opportunities for Postgraduate study at Leeds Conservatoire, hear from the tutors and see the facilities.
- Sat 9 Oct - MA Dramaturgy, MA Musical Direction, MA Musical Theatre Company, MA Musical Theatre Creatives
- Sat 30 Oct - MA Music, PGDip Music
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Postgraduate Study at Other Conservatoires and Specialist Institutions
Music
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
- Guildhall Artist Programme
- Performance Pathway
- Composition Pathway
- MA Music Therapy
- MA Opera Making and Writing
- PGCert Performance Teaching
Selection is by audition and applications are accepted using their online application form.
Royal Academy of Music
- MA Performance or Composition
- MMus Performance or Composition
- PGCert Performance or Composition
Applications are accepted through UCAS Conservatoires.
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
- MMus/PGDip Brass Band Conducting
- MMus/PGDip Choral Conducting
- MMus/PgCert/PgDip Composition
- MMus/PgCert/PgDip Experimental Performance
- MMus/PgCert/PgDip Instrumental Performance
- MMus/PgCert/PgDip Jazz
- MMus/PgCert/PgDip Music Technology
- MA Musicology
- MMus/PgDip Orchestral Performance (Strings)
- MMus/PgCert/PgDip Vocal Performance
Applications are accepted through UCAS Conservatoires.
Royal College of Music
- Graduate Diploma in Vocal Performance
- Master of Performance (MPerf)
- Master of Composition (MComp)
- MMus Performance
- MMus Composition
- MSc Performance Science
- Master of Education (MEd)
- Artist Diploma in Performance
- Artist Diploma in Opera
- Artist Diploma in Composition
Applications are accepted through UCAS Conservatoires.
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- MA/Professional Graduate Diploma in Musical Theatre: Musical Directing
- Artist Diploma
- MA Psychology in the Arts (Music)
- MMus/MA – Brass, Chamber Music, Composition, Conducting, Guitar and Harp, Historically Informed Performance Practice, Jazz, Keyboard
- MEd/PGCert in Learning and Teaching in the Arts
- Professional Graduate Diploma in Education (Music)
Applications are accepted through UCAS Conservatoires.
Royal Northern College of Music
- Master of Music (MMus)
- Master of Performance (MPerf)
- PgDip Advanced Studies
- European Chamber Music Master (ECMAster)
- PGCE in Music with Specialist Instrumental Teaching
Applications are accepted through UCAS Conservatoires.
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
- MMUS/PgDip Brass Band Conducting
- MMUS/PgDip Composer-Performer
- MMUS/PgDip Music Performance
- MMUS/PgDip Orchestral Performance
- PgDip Advanced Professional Practice
- MMUS/PgDip Composition
- MMUS/PgDip Choral Conducting
- MMUS/PgDip Orchestral Conducting
- MMUS/PgDip Historical Performance
- MA/PgDip Jazz
- MA Repetiteur Studies
- MMUS/PgDip Collaborative Piano
- MA Advanced Opera Performance
- MA Opera Directing
- MMUS/PgDip Multi Instrument Woodwind Performance
- MA Arts Management
Applications are accepted through UCAS Conservatoires.
Trinity Laban
Trinity Laban offers Artist, Professional and Graduate Diplomas, MA Music Education and Performance, and MMus with specialisms of Composition, Jazz, Keyboard, Strings, Vocal Studies, Wind, Brass and Percussion.
Applications are accepted through UCAS Conservatoires.
Institute for Contemporary Music Performance
- MA Songwriting
- MA Popular Music Performance
- MA Creative Music Production
Applications are made using their online Application form.
BIMM Institute
- MA Popular Music Practice
- MA Learning and Teaching in the Creative Industries
Applications are made using their online Application form
University for the Creative Arts
- MA/MSc International Music Management
Applications are made using their online Application Form
Drama and Performing Arts
The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts
- MA Professional Acting
- MA Directing
- MFA Linklater Teaching Practice
Applications made using their online form
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
- MFA Professional Acting
- MA Screen Acting
- MA Drama Writing
- MFA Professional Voice Studies
- MA Drama Directing
Applications are made via UCAS
East15
- MA Acting
- MA/MFA Theatre Directing
- MA Advanced Professional Theatre Practice
Applications made using their online form
Guildford School of Acting
- MA/MFA Acting
- MA/MFA Musical Theatre
- MA Theatre (Part-time Onlline)
Applications made online through the University of Surrey
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
- MA Acting
- MPhil/PHD Research Degrees
Selection is by audition and applications are accepted using their online application form
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
- MFA Professional Acting
- MA Classical Acting for the Professional Theatre
- MA Directing
Applications made online via their website
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
- MA Acting (Company)
- MA Professional Practice: Theatre and Drama Facilitation
Applications made via UCAS
Mountview
- MA Musical Direction
- MA Theatre Directing
- MA Theatre for Community and Education
- MA Site-specific Theatre Practice
- MA Creative Producing
- MA Performance – Acting or Musical Theatre
Applications made via their website
Rose Bruford College
- MA/MFA Actor and Performer Training
- MA/MFA Actor Musicianship
- MA/MFA Collaborative Theatre Making
- MA/MFA Contemporary Directing Practice
- Post Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Theatre and Performing Arts
- MA/MFA Theatre for Young Audiences
Applications made via their online form
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- MA Theatre Lab
- MA Text and Performance
Applications Made via their website
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
- MA/MFA/PgDip Acting
- MA/MFA/PgDip Professional Voice Practice
Visit their website to find out how to apply
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- MA Musical Theatre (Performance, Musical Directing or Choreography)
- Professional Graduate Diploma in Musical Directing
- MEd in Learning and Teaching in the Performing Arts
- PG Cert in Learning and Teaching in the Arts
- MA/MFA Classical and Contemporary Text (Acting or Directing)
Application via UCAS
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
- MA Acting for Stage, Screen & Radio
- MA Musical Theatre
- MA Stage and Event Management
- MA Arts Management
Application via UCAS
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- MA Classical Acting
- MA Contemporary Acting
- MA Acting for Screen
- MA/MFA Actor Training and Coaching
- MA/MFA Advanced Theatre Practice
- MA Applied Theatre
- PG Cert Applied Theatre with Young People
- MA/MFA Creative Producing
- MA Drama and Movement Therapy
- MA/MFA Movement: Directing and Teaching
- MA Music Theatre
- MA/MFA Voice Studies: Teaching and Coaching
- MA/MFA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media
Applications made using their online application form
Trinity Laban
Trinity Laban offers a wider range of Dance-led MA, MFA and MSc courses
Application Through UCAS Conservatoires
BIMM Institute
- MA Learning and Teaching in the Creative Industries
Applications using their online Application form
University for the Creative Arts
- PG Cert Creative Education
- MA/MSc Human Resource Management for the Creative Industries
- MA Screen Acting and Performance
- MA Writing for Screen
Apply using their online form
Postgraduate Study in West Yorkshire
University of Leeds
Music
- MA Applied Psychology of Music
- MA Electronic and Computer Music
- MA Music and Management
- MA/PGCert/PgDip Music and Wellbeing
- MA Critical and Applied Musicology
- MMus Critical and Experimental Composition
- MMus/PgDip Performance
- MA Media Industries
Drama and Performing Arts
- MA Applied Theatre and Intervention
- MA/PGDip/PGCert Audiences, Engagement, Participation
- MA Culture, Creativity and Entrepreneurship
- MA Writing for Performance and Digital Media
Applications are made either through UCAS or using the University’s Online application form.
Leeds Beckett University
Music
- MA Music Production
- MA Music for the Moving Image
- MSc Sound and Music for Interactive Games
- MA Music and Popular Culture
Drama and Performing Arts
- MA Choreography
- MA Performance
Leeds Beckett also offer the opportunity to do a Masters by Research (MRes) in a subject of your choosing, these are dependent on staff availability.
Applications are made either through UCAS or using the University’s Online application form.
University of Huddersfield
Music
- PgDip/MMus Music Performance
- MRes Music
- MSc Music Technology and Sound Production
- MMus Musicology
- MA Creative Music Production
- Secondary Music PGCE with QTS
- MRes Communication, Cultural and Media Studies
Drama and Performing Arts
- MRes Drama, Dance and Performance
Applications are made either through UCAS or using the University’s Online application form.
Backstage Academy
- MA Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Live Events
- MA Live Event Design
- MSc Creative Technologies for Live Events
Applications are made either through UCAS or using the Institutions’ Online application form.
