Artist Diploma in Music Performance

Artist Diploma in Music Performance

Description:

The Artist Diploma in Music Performance is an undergraduate programme that provides educational artistic enrichment and training in music with the academic faculty and staff of the Academy for the Performing Arts.  This programme aims to provide a creative and intellectually stimulating environment in which students can acquire music literacy and further develop their performance skills.  Individual instruction in Principal Applied study, Ensemble Performance, theoretical courses in Music Theory and Sight-Reading and Ear-Training are offered in this programme, as well as courses in Caribbean Music and Seminars in Psychology of Music Performance and related areas of artistic development and performance. 

Full-time students register for courses totalling fifteen (15) credits for each semester over a period of two (2) years. Part-time students register for a minimum of nine (9) to twelve (12) credits per semester which is expected to be completed within three (3) academic years from the first day of instruction.

Mode of Delivery and Duration: Full Time; Two (2) years and Part Time; Three (3) years

Programme Venue:

1. UTT Campus at NAPA

Entry Requirements:

• Passes in a minimum of five (5) subjects at CXC (CSEC) General Proficiency level in Grades I or II and from 1998, Grade III or equivalent GCE O’ Levels including Grades A, B or C in Mathematics and English Language;
   
• A competitive audition (2 selections chosen by the applicant);
   
• An interview with the faculty.

Mature Student Entry:

An applicant who does not satisfy all the stipulated minimum academic or technical qualifications for admission to the programme may be accepted as a Mature Student. He/she would need to possess the critical elements of the stipulated qualification and would be assessed as possessing a combination of qualifications and educational or experiential maturity to enable him/her to successfully participate in the Programme.

Application Deadline: