MA Music Performance Studies

This course is designed to help you build the stylistic awareness and advanced techniques to perform music at concert level.

Through workshops, masterclasses and one-to-one lessons with specialist tutors, you will hone your abilities as both a solo and ensemble performer, culminating in a public recital at the end of your course. You can either choose to take a piano performance pathway or instrumental performance pathway.

You will have the opportunity to engage in modules that develop your understanding of performance as a research informed discipline, whilst also having the opportunity to collaborate on creative projects with students from other programmes.

The department plays an important role in Sheffield's thriving cultural life, and students have frequent opportunities to perform for the University of Sheffield Concerts, a concert series that hosts varied performances from world-wide professional musicians throughout the year.

Sheffield is celebrated as one of the UK's leading music cities, with dozens of major venues. The city benefits from regular visits from the Halle and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestras, the nationally important Music in the Round chamber music organisation, and a rich programme of musicals, ballets and operas at the Crucible and Lyceum theatres. Sheffield is particularly known for its folk scene. Our students regularly take part in gigs at smaller venues across the city, as well as the Yellow Arch Studios.

You can choose to take a piano performance pathway or an instrumental performance pathway. Please select the relevant course when you apply:

We are an All-Steinway School.

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Modules

  • Academic Skills
  • Advanced Ensemble Performance Skills
  • Historically-Informed Piano Performance
  • Piano Recital
  • Historically-Informed Performance
  • Recital
  • Collaborative practice, public engagement and impact
  • Communicating about music and music research
  • Critical Listening and the Musical Work
  • Critical Listening and the Musical Work
  • Performing South Asian Rhythm
  • Topics in Musicology
  • Critical Musicology
  • The Social and Applied Psychology of Music
  • Music, Brain and Body
  • Qualitative Data Collection
  • Qualitative Research Techniques
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    £24,400 Per Year

    International student tuition fee

    1 Year

    Duration

    Sep 2025

    Start Month

    Aug 2025

    Application Deadline

    Upcoming Intakes

    • September 2025
    • September 2026

    Mode of Study

    • Full Time