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Are you a vocalist who would like to advance your vocal training and performance practice? In addition to developing your solo performing interests, would you like to progress your musicianship, ensemble and creative skills? Would you like to broaden your knowledge and your creative potential through a varied and professionally focused degree?

Applicants will be proficient vocalists but do not necessarily have to have a formal background in music (i.e. Leaving Certificate Music or vocal grade examinations such as those from the Associated Board, Royal Irish Academy etc.). Vocalists will practically engage a variety of genre interests and may have prior performance experience in popular music, song writing, musical theatre, choral etc.

Applicants will be required to demonstrate vocal proficiency at audition.

Why Study Voice?

This programme will allow you to develop a range of skills for professional vocal performance in a variety of contexts. You will also develop your scholarly knowledge and inquiry through engaging academic studies focused on singing and artistic practice in educational, social, community and health settings.

You will have the opportunity to broaden your knowledge of performance practices and scholarly traditions in order to gain new insights into the worlds of music and dance, enhancing your creative potential. You will study a number of vocationally focused modules aimed at allowing you to translate your singing, artistic and scholarly creativity into a fulfilling career.

As a student, you will be based at the world-class facilities of the Irish World Academy building, equipped to the highest standards with cutting edge performance and rehearsal spaces and technological infrastructure. The cooperative education period allows you to construct your own work-experience, giving you invaluable experience of the opportunities open to you when you graduate.

The programme prepares you for many different career paths including professional performance; performing arts facilitation; postgraduate studies; work in cultural institutions; media related posts; archival work; performance production; portfolio careers combining the preceding and others in entrepreneurial ways.

What you will Study

You will focus and advance your vocal performance practice through individual voice lessons combined with group performance, ensemble and musicianship classes. Vocalists engaged in this course at the Irish World Academy will explore a range of vocal styles and traditions. Students enter the programme from popular (CCM), music theatre/stage school, singer/songwriter, folk, sacred or choral backgrounds (among others). You will find that the core aspects of the programme will support your development across multiple styles, broadening your singing and developing functional awareness of your instrument.

Throughout the programme you will develop key academic skills through contextual modules in areas related to your practice. First year students critically engage with classical, popular, traditional and world music and dance in academic modules shared with students on other undergraduate programmes (BA Irish Music, BA Contemporary Dance, BA Irish Dance, BA World Music). From second year, you will undertake specialist modules in vocal pedagogy and voice studies. Core modules will be taken by all students in areas such as music education and community music; arts and health; ethnomusicology and research skills; performing arts technology and professional skills for performing artists. The Academy has an unparalleled team of faculty and tutors who guide and facilitate the growth of students as vocal performers and academics.