Music Industry Studies University of Liverpool

Overview

Through both face to face and online lectures and performances, you will investigate current music industry practices in-depth.

Key Features

• In attending our research seminars, you will meet and learn from expert guest speakers belonging to a multitude of music industry disciplines.
• You’ll receive comprehensive guidance in events management at both our state of the art Tung Auditorium and the Liverpool Philharmonic hall. You will achieve this by being closely involved in concerts performed by professional musicians from around the world as well as our internal programme of events featuring University of Liverpool students.
• You will learn about management practices within the music industry, enabling you to understand the dynamics of managing artists as products.
• The  Music Industry Studies programme from University of Liverpool is suitable for you if you have a keen interest in pursuing a career in the fields of music management, events management and the music industry.

Career prospects

The MA is very much industry-focused. Members of staff for the most part have wide-ranging music industry experience and are able to draw on this in the preparation of classes. Familiarity with local and national practitioners means that classes are current and highly-informed. 

The ability to draw on the vast experience of the RLPO is priceless. This is a music organisation with 200 employees, which not only runs an orchestra but manages a venue and delivers an extensive educational programme. The range of expertise the programme can draw upon is second-to-none.

All this noted, the MA is still an academic degree in a Russell Group university and staff academic standards are equally high. All members of staff hold PhD qualifications in relevant disciplines and all are experienced PhD supervisors. 

Every year, a small number of graduates indicate that they would like to carry on their studies at PhD level and we see ‘employability’ as preparation either for industry or for academia and support students, whatever their proposed career paths might be.

The course opens up career opportunities which include working in:

• Music management
• Events management
• Music composition and Music technology
• Teaching
• Media and Journalism.