Music Homepage

* A brand new departmental website is currently under construction. *
Please return to this page in the next couple of weeks.

Music activities at Surrey are characterised by two qualities: integration and breadth . We have a bias towards the music of modernity, which means that almost all of our research addresses music since the mid-nineteenth century, and most of our modules have a similar focus. That aside, whether you are a budding composer, performer, sound designer or musicologist, your interests will be embraced and nurtured by the Department. The curriculum is so structured that almost any musical activity you might want to engage in can receive credit, and none is regarded as of less intrinsic value than any other.

The department boasts expertise in a range of musics (concert music; popular music; film music; opera; acoustic, electronic and computer-generated musics) and techniques (historical study; analysis; aesthetics; cultural study), and oversees a range of ensembles (symphony and pops orchestras; choirs; jazz and big bands; chamber ensembles and ad hoc groups), all of which enable your focus to be as narrow, or as wide, as you wish.

This breadth is reinforced by our approaches to research, and the questions we address. In short, music within the department is vibrant, forward-looking and distinctive. And, as our performance activities are very much the public face of the university, we play a valued role in the relationship between town and gown.