The MMus Composition programme is for open-minded and adaptable composers keen to acquire new skills and consolidate their existing knowledge across all areas of new music creation. You may have been making music in your bedroom with experimental sound software or have three string quartets under your belt. You could be a trained performer looking to develop a new musical voice by creating new sounds, systems and music for your instrument, or you could be hoping to skill up so that you’re attractive to the film and game music industries.  

Whatever your compositional background and whatever your compositional ambitions, if you’ve been composing and creating music at University level or producing work and sharing it with your community, this programme will help you learn a great deal more about your craft and to deeply explore your potential as creative musician. 

Our MMus in Composition is a strongly interdisciplinary programme of study during which you will have the opportunity to create: 

• acoustic and instrumental music 
• screen/film/animation music 
• interactive game audio  
• sound installations and sonic art 

Graduates of the programme will be armed with professional, practical, analytical and intellectual skills to take into music-related industries or on towards further academic study, such as a PhD.

The rich, cross-disciplinary programme of study we offer provides graduates with advanced skills in composing across formats and in a range of contexts from film and game music through to music for theatre and music for the concert hall, album, mobile phone or studio. 

As a graduate of this programme you will feel empowered to take on commissions in professional compositional areas and to pursue your own creative path as an independent composer. 

Graduates from our composition degrees are now working in theatre, radio, TV and video games, as sound recordists, live performers, gigging singer-songwriters and many are active on the global music scene as composers in residences with orchestras, ensembles, educational projects and other art spaces. 

Many graduates are running successful music-related businesses around the world, and several have PhDs and are pursuing academic careers.

You will gain a wide variety of transferable skills, such as the ability to research & analyse music, structure & manage your time, work and communicate effectively as part of an arts production team. These skills will increase your employability across the arts and further afield.

If you'd like to study on a postgraduate programme at Edinburgh College of Art, you must apply through EUCLID, our online application system. You can find out how to do this on the University of Edinburgh website, where you'll also be able to:

• See detailed entrance requirements for each programme on the Degree Finder 
• Get information on what to expect after you apply 
• Find out about study modes, start dates and fees 
• Find out if, and how, you need to submit a portfolio, showreel or research proposal 
• Find out where to go for further advice and guidance.