Reid School of Music

At the Reid School of Music, our distinctive and innovative degree programmes will provide you with unparalleled opportunities to engage creatively with music and sound, and to explore musical cultures and technologies within the context of the sciences and humanities. Our staff are passionate about what they do and will support your learning with expertise and enthusiasm.

Our flexible degree structures mean that no matter which programme you choose, you’ll have the opportunity to select courses from across the University, enabling you to develop a personal study programme suited to your own aims and interests.

We hope that the information below will help you find out more about studying with us.

Here you’ll find more information about studying the following degrees with us:

• BMus (Hons) Music
• BSc (Hons) Acoustics and Music Technology  

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World-class teaching staff

Our staff are world-leaders in a wide range of musical areas including musicology, acoustics and music technology, composition, improvisation, and community music. As a student, you will also have the opportunity to work alongside professional musicians giving you practical experience and preparing you for life after University.

Live in a city brimming with culture

Edinburgh has a vibrant music scene; from the excitement of the International and Fringe festivals to all-year-round performances by world-class music and theatre groups. It is also home to world-leading researchers in acoustics, audio, and music technology.

Join a vibrant community

We are home to more than 25 musical societies and we host a packed schedule of concerts and seminars throughout the year, ranging from classical and jazz to contemporary and electronic.

Benefit from breadth and flexibility

Design your own pathway around our core music curriculum to suit your interests, studying outside subjects through to your final year if you wish. For BSc students, flexible pathways allow you to combine scientific, technological, and artistic subjects as your interests and expertise develop.

Facilities and resources

From high quality recording and editing suites to renowned concert halls, exceptional libraries, practice facilities and precious musical instrument collections, you’ll benefit from a fantastic range of resources at Edinburgh.  

Our teaching centre, Alison House, is located at the heart of the University. It houses our teaching rooms and practice rooms as well as a suite of electroacoustic music studios and a computer microlab. The Reid School of Music will be relocating to our Lauriston Campus as part of the investment in our campus facilities.

Close by are both the Reid Concert Hall with an Ahrend organ and state-of-the-art recording studio, and St Cecilia’s Hall, the oldest purpose-built concert hall in Scotland, home to the Edinburgh University Collection of Musical Instruments, one of the most significant historical musical instrument collections in the world.  

We also have ‘All Steinway School Status’ with a fleet of 27 new Steinway and Sons pianos and two Steinway concert grands.

Students on the BSc in Acoustics & Music Technology programme will have some of their teaching in King’s Buildings and will have access to a range of technical facilities including computing and acoustic labs, electronic studios, and anechoic and reverberation chambers.

And if all of that’s not enough, the Reid Music Library Collection, situated within the main library, is exceptionally well stocked with around 20,000 books, 65,000 scores and more than 8,500 sound recordings, including many rarities and valuable first editions.

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