Jazz Performance (Hons) University of Chichester

Overview

You will join the jazz community and attend weekly jazz workshops, with regular jazz nights on campus. The Jazz Performance (Hons) degree at University of Chichester encourages you to develop an appreciation of jazz as music of diversity, inclusivity and creativity, and as a collaborative community art form.

On this course you will:

• Have the opportunity to attend regular concerts.
• Hear from guest artist masterclasses, with recent guests including Jason Rebello, Sue McCreeth and Simon Purcell.
• Perform in ensemble work.
• Receive high quality one-to-one tuition in an internationally renowned teaching faculty.
• Explore contextual modules including Jazz Repertoire, Jazz Theory, Jazz History and Postmodern Jazz.

Careers

This BMus (Hons) Music (or BA) with Jazz Studies degree will prepare you for a range of careers after you graduate. You will have the opportunity to develop a variety of transferable skills and specific subject knowledge to prepare you for life after university.

Past music graduates have secured various roles in jazz performance, including:

• Gigs and functions

• Cruise musicians Performing their own music at jazz clubs, concerts and festivals

• Teachers at all levels of education 

• Music arrangers 

• Setting up their own record label and online resources 

• Group instrumentalists.