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Where does a good music degree?

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  • 06-11-2010 5:00pm
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    wet-paint
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    Hi folks,
    Has anyoen here done a music degree in Ireland? I'm looking for a good performance one, and right now I'm leaning toward Waterford IT, but does anyone here have any experiences of music schools in Ireland? Where's good, bad, terrible, etc.

    Any advice appreciated,
    WP


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    CokaColumbo
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    I know very little about it but I have a friend who's doing some sort of music degree in Queen's in Belfast. He said he went there because it was the best place to do a music degree.


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    catho_monster
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    I wouldn't go to WIT as I've heard that there's a move towards group instrumental lessons rather than one-on-one with your teacher. If performance is where you want to go, I wouldn't advise you to go there.
    DIT has a good reputation for performance degrees, and also NUIM seems to be developing in that direction...


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    Sinfonia
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    UCD and Trinity are heavily concerned with Musicology and Analysis and don't really offer performance degrees, so there's two to scratch off the list


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    wet-paint
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    Cheers for the responses thus far. Currently I'm looking at colleges outside Dublin, as I just couldn't afford to live there, but it's good to know my options.


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    Jay P
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    The Cork School of Music (CIT) offer music, and you specialise in what you're best at (performing, conducting, composition), and apparently is well-renowned.


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    jonnyfingers
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    catho_monster wrote: »
    I wouldn't go to WIT as I've heard that there's a move towards group instrumental lessons rather than one-on-one with your teacher.

    I personally know lectures on the WIT course, and my brother is doing it at the moment and can confirm it is a very good music degree course. I can't confirm or deny the move to group instrumental lessons but my brother is training in classical voice and has one-on-one tuition.


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    godreborn
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    I went to do the WIT music course and i'd warn you to not go. Very poorly run, i sat a guitar exam and they lost my exam scripts so they failed me! Numerous incidents like this over the course of the year so i left. Heads of the course are pretty difficult people to talk to and have a very 'holier than thou' attitude. I'm studying in maynooth now, and its much better! :)


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    Dudess
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    If you can handle the elitism, Cork School of Music is superb (I was there on piano scholarship, it's pretty full-on) - some renowned teachers and graduates in the classical world.
    UCC's music course is really good too - I did first year music as part of my BA, it was amazing.


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