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Welcome

Context​

The Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Music (AdvPGDip) is designed to allow students with an existing Masters qualification to progress further within their discipline. You will have the opportunity to extend and deepen your skills, knowledge and understanding in-and-through performance within a rich conservatoire environment.

Your responsibilities as a student​

The AdvPGDip is built on the assumption that you the student are largely responsible for the design and shape of your learning. Why have you chosen further study at Masters level? Which areas of your practice do you wish to expand and deepen this year: what repertoires, genres, techniques? What sources of information can you draw on to support your practice? What professional pathways and opportunities do you intend to explore? How can you document and reflect upon your progress through the year?

We also expect you to contribute actively and generously to the ecology of the Conservatoire: to both support and be supported by your peers. Your responsibility radiates out from your own individual practice to your colleagues within your department, school, the institution as a whole, and the wider world. As a postgraduate student, you will be challenged to preserve and consolidate your autonomy alongside collaborative relationships with multiple networks:

  • The intra-disciplinary: engagement with others working in the same discipline
  • The inter-disciplinary: engagement with others working in other disciplines
  • The historical: interrogation of past theories and practices which inform current work
  • The transactional: engagement with a wider population which acts as spectator, learner, co-participant or constructive challenger
  • The professional: engagement with professional partners and environments, including the capacity to be agents of change
  • The cultural: engagement with diverse communities of practice
  • The ecological: engagement with the environment, and others in it
  • The digital: engagement with the technological, and virtual, environments

Further information on your responsibilities as a student may be found in the Conservatoire’s Regulations, Codes of Procedure and General Rules, which should be read in conjunction with this Handbook.