Popular Music Performance is designed for musicians who want to place performance at the centre of their practice while preparing for a professional career. Across three years, you’ll develop through one-to-one tuition, ensemble coaching, and specialist mentoring, refining your technique, musical identity, and stage presence.
While performance is the core focus, you’ll also explore songwriting, studio recording, arranging, composition, artist development, and production. Interactive workshops, masterclasses, and practical projects support your growth as a confident performer while allowing you to shape your creative direction.
Why Study Popular Music Performance BMus(Hons) at the University of Huddersfield
You’ll collaborate closely with students across the Performing Arts, including engineers, songwriters, session performers, artists, and theatre practitioners. This mirrors professional creative environments and builds confidence as a flexible, industry-ready performer.
You’ll study in a School recognised internationally for excellence and benefit from exceptional facilities, including professional concert halls, rehearsal and practice rooms, studios, instrument collections, and world-class recording facilities. Generous open access outside teaching hours allows you to rehearse, collaborate and refine your craft, supported by expert technical staff.
Huddersfield’s creative community offers opportunities beyond the classroom, from international festivals and experimental music events to ensembles, choirs, big bands, open mic nights and student-led projects. You’ll be part of a close-knit School where every student is known, supported, and encouraged to succeed.
Music is ranked 8th in the UK (Daily Mail University Guide 2026) and Performing Arts 37th globally (QS World University Subject Rankings 2025).
Professional Bodies
At Huddersfield, you’ll study the Global Professional Award alongside your degree† so that you gain valuable qualities and experiences that could help you to get the career you want, no matter what your field of study is.
†full-time, undergraduate first degrees with a minimum duration of three years. This does not include postgraduate, foundation, top-up, accelerates or apprenticeship degrees.
Why Huddersfield
Huddersfield’s vibrant and friendly campus is a great place from which to study, while the town itself offers lots to see and do, with good transport links in and around the area.
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