To us, music is everything: an academic subject, a creative practice and a vocation. We are a dedicated and outward-looking department.
Our innovative research has global reach. Our lecturers are internationally established composers, performers and scholars. We uniquely combine classical and popular music studies, composition, musicology, sonic arts, ethnomusicology, music computing and more.
Studying with us will maximize your creative and academic potential, preparing you for the professional world. We encourage ambition and independent thinking. You explore the musician you want to be, finding a deeper connection with music.
Music is all in the experience. Laptop jam meets violin concerto; Sundanese gamelan meets alternative rock; opera meets dub step. It’s all here at Goldsmiths, rigorously tied into your programme of study.
So if you’re up for pop music, you’ll know that in 2011 two of our students were nominated for the Mercury Prize.
If you’re the next outstanding concert pianist, you will want to play our brand new Steinway Model D grand.
If you’re not sure where you want to go, this is where it all starts. Read more.

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Music programmes:
- BMus (Hons) Music
- BMus (Hons) Popular Music
- BMus/BSc (Hons) Music Computing
- International Foundation Certificate in Music
- Certificate for Postgraduate Study in Music
- MA in Arts Administration & Cultural Policy: Music Pathway
- MA in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship: Music Pathway
- MA in Music
- MA in Music (Contemporary Music Studies)
- MA in Music (Ethnomusicology)
- MA in Music (Historical Musicology)
- MA in Music (Popular Music Research)
- MMus in Composition
- MMus in Creative Practice
- MMus in Performance & Related Studies
- MMus in Studio Composition
- MPhil & PhD in Music
- Part-time, evening and short Music courses
Latest from Music
Radio 3 Broadcast on Saturday 28 January
Dr Berta Joncus will be on BBC Radio 3's The Early Music show, talking about the eighteenth-century soprano Kitty Clive, the subject of Dr Joncus's forthcoming book. The Early Music Show
Honorary Doctorate for Brian Ferneyhough
Brian Ferneyhough, who is widely recognized as one of today's foremost living composers will be giving a lecture following his award of Honorary Doctorate by Goldsmiths at 6.15pm in the New Academic Building, Thursday 12 January.
Southbank Festival 'Prokofiev: Man of the People?", Opening Concert
Professor Alexander Ivashkin leads a discussion and performance of Prokofiev's works for the cello, performed by Ivashkin (cello), Coady Green (piano) and the TrinityGold Cello Ensemble, on Friday 13 January, 6pm. More info here
Rob Stringer Music Scholarship
We are delighted to announce this new award for BMus in Popular Music, 2012.
Upcoming Events
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