Composition & Contemporary Music
Develop your individual style and musical personality with a rich schedule of project-based work.
Our collaborative degree courses offer opportunities for performance and recording in a wide range of contexts. Our recent alumni include Freya Waley-Cohen, Isabelle Gellis and Lloyd Coleman.
Our undergraduate course is shaped to give you a strong foundation in compositional technique, whether your interests lie in writing for concert, media and film, staged productions or electronic music.
At postgraduate level, our demanding courses comprise a full schedule of project work, including workshops, performances and recordings of student compositions. Throughout the year, there’s opportunities to have your work performed both inside and outside the Academy.
You will be taught by dedicated teachers and active composers who are engaged in a broad range of compositional activities.
I chose the Academy for its unrivalled opportunities, including weekly one-to-one composition lessons with such respected composers as David Sawer [and] Edmund Finnis.
Meet the Academy's Professor of Composition, Helen Grime
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