MA in Composition and Creative Music Practice in Limerick Ireland | University of Limerick

The MA Composition and Creative Music Practice is an innovative one-year, full-time graduate program tailored for composers, sound artists, improvisers, and performers across all musical backgrounds. It fosters personal artistic growth while encouraging interdisciplinary and multicultural creative exploration.
This intensive program, available as a one-year full-time or two-year part-time option, cultivates individual artistry while promoting collaborative work across genres, art forms, and cultures. Participants engage with both acoustic and electronic music through diverse compositional, improvisational, and performance approaches. The program embraces students from all musical traditions (including folk, classical, popular, and world music) and sound art disciplines, whether they use traditional notation or alternative methods.
The MA Composition and Creative Music Practice offers:
A perfect environment for innovative musicians working within specific traditions or exploring intersections between Irish folk, classical, experimental, popular, and global music. A forward-thinking, interdisciplinary framework that encourages artistic cross-pollination and creative experimentation. A curriculum that nurtures complementary skills in composition, performance, improvisation, and sound art. A commitment to developing both oral/aural creative processes and notation-based approaches for acoustic and electroacoustic works. An inclusive platform celebrating diverse local and international artistic traditions.