Postgraduate Diploma in Music Performance

The diploma provides specialised training in performance. The diploma will equip the learners with the ability to perform at a high level as a soloist or chamber musician or accompanist. It will prepare the candidate for employment in arts and media-related professions or for possible further, independent research for the DMus by Performance and Thesis.

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)

The institution conducts RPL in terms of the policy and guidelines of the institution to recognise other forms of formal, informal and non-formal learning and experience. In cases where learners do not comply with the formal admission requirements, the institution applies its RPL policy.

Entry Requirements

The minimum entry requirement for this qualification is

• Advance Diploma in Music, NQF Level 7.

1. Communicate verbally and orally with professional audiences;
2. Apply disciplinary knowledge and research skills;
3. Analyse and critique communications of an academic and popular nature;
4. Apply practical and theoretical knowledge as a qualified performer;
5. Contribute to public performances.

The following associated assessment criteria apply across all Exit Level Outcomes

• Familiar with contemporary theoretical issues in musicological studies;
• Apply a range of advanced research methods to research problems in musicology;
• Conduct advanced literature searches and critique current literature in the form of a review;
• Perform publicly as a soloist or as a member of an ensemble;
• Write research and funding proposals.

Integrated Assessment

• Literature review;
• Use of appropriate methods of data collection and analysis;
• Integration of findings;
• Appreciation of the limits of the study;
• Use of the publication and style conventions of the discipline;
• The practical component is assessed through a series of public performances which will include solo and ensemble work.
• The performances are subject to external examination.