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Enhance your musical abilities and experience the powerful exchange of sharing music in a community or education setting.

Experience first-hand how you can use music to positively impact people’s lives and discover your strengths as a community musician and educator with our Music: Education & Community degree. You will become part of a vibrant musical network and make full use of The International Centre for Community Music, based at York St John University, to enrich your experience and opportunities during the course.

Discover more about the role that music plays and the power it can have when applied in educational and community contexts. As the oldest Higher Education institution in the city, York St John has been at the forefront of teaching and education for over 175 years. The University is rooted in the principles of fairness and social justice, which apply equally to the way that we work alongside local businesses and communities.

You will experience work-related learning in settings like schools, day care centres, nurseries or hospitals and you will have opportunities to use music with children, elderly people, the homeless and mental health service users. You will explore community music as a means of promoting health, wellbeing, and quality of life. Through a long-term placement with a local community music provider, you’ll be able to develop your educational and community music practice, documentation and evaluation.

We teach music through practice, whether in performing, composing, listening, or analysing. Our degrees challenge you to realise your potential for creativity and individual expression, to develop a deeper understanding of music and its place in society and to gain and refine skills which are highly-valued by employers. All students take a common first year in which everyone receives individual instrumental or vocal tuition, providing a firm basis for specialist study in subsequent years. Many of our graduates have chosen to work in music as performers, teachers, community musicians, administrators or therapists.

All of our music programmes share a common first year in which you will build a foundation of skills, understanding and practical experience. In the second year you are encouraged to explore, innovate and broaden the range of your work in music, whilst the third year provides a springboard into professional music, centred around your individual interests and needs.