Home to a large number of ensembles and a flourishing concert programme
Excellent facilities including concert halls, studios and practice rooms
Combine academic study with numerous opportunities for performance
Music is central to the cultural life of the City of York
Our students go on to successful and diverse careers
Welcome to the Department of Music
The Department of Music at York is one of the liveliest in the country, with a busy schedule of performance activities. The range of study, performance and composition is extremely wide, both within our taught courses and at research level. Our staff includes distinguished scholars, composers and performers.
Welcome
Enter our Department and you can feel a buzz of creative energy from the 200 students and large staff of world-leading professional musicians engaged in studying, creating and performing music of all kinds.
York is the first choice for performance, composition and scholarship. Our distinctive course enables you to specialise and gives you the choice to define your own programme. We only teach in small groups, through our renowned ‘project system’, and teach exclusively from our research.
We look forward to welcoming you to our lively, friendly and internationally respected Department.
Professor Jonathan Wainwright
Head of Department, Music
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Events
Victorian Legacy and the Violist in 1901
4.00PM, I/D003
Vic Bernath (Department of Music, University of York)
Concerts
Lyons Live!
Selected concerts and events in the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall are now being streamed live over the web. Find out how to watch and see a list of upcoming streams on the Lyons Live page.