Goldsmiths - University of London

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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