Performance/Composition/Jazz

Conservatoire training in composition, performance, and jazz represents the highest level of sustained musical development available at degree level, asking students to define and refine an artistic voice and to use it with the confidence and craft needed to lead and shape the art form. Composition is the discipline of creating original music, working across notation, structure, and sound to produce works that have both intellectual coherence and imaginative power. Performance develops the technical and interpretive skills needed to realise music at the highest level, whether in classical, contemporary, or jazz idioms.

Jazz encompasses both performance and improvisation within a tradition that has its own harmonic, rhythmic, and stylistic language, and its own extensive and evolving repertoire.

At Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, these four-year full-time undergraduate programmes are designed to give you the tools to define your artistic voice and use it to lead the arts beyond convention, as the conservatoire describes. You will develop your chosen specialism with intensity and depth, learning from and alongside musicians who are active in the professional world, in an institution embedded in one of the world's most vibrant musical cities. Trinity Laban's location in London and its connections to the professional music industry make it a particularly rich environment for developing a career-ready artistic identity.

Graduates from conservatoire composition, performance, and jazz programmes go on to careers as composers, performers, recording artists, session musicians, music producers, educators, and arts administrators. Many build portfolio careers combining several of these roles, while others develop deep specialist expertise in a particular area of practice. The industry is competitive but the skills and networks developed at a leading conservatoire provide a strong platform.

Many graduates also pursue postgraduate study in composition, performance, or music technology, extending their expertise and their artistic range.