Bachelor in Arts - Music Production
Kaunas, Lithuania
BA
DURATION
7 semesters
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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TUITION FEES
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* For applicants from EU/EFTA countries. For applicants and citizens of visa free countries: Albania, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Sakartvelo, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Moldova, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States, Ukraine, Venezuela.
Key Summary
The bachelor programme in Music production is unique in the region. It aims at giving all necessary creative training to contemporary music producers, including everything they need in their successful professional careers. Everything you learn is designed to help start and manage a successful music career. You will create real-life projects accommodated and fitted to the ongoing possibilities at the university (performing at live events, media compositions, and music concerts) and built around students’ needs.
- you will use equipment matching the standards of the music industry;
- you will have an opportunity to work in three professional sound recording studios;
- the only Music Production study programme fully in English in Lithuania;
- you will meet the professionals of the music industry and realize real-life music projects during your studies;
- the study programme is distinguished by its internationality and is based on the British experience of organizing studies.
While studying the Music Production programme, you will have the opportunity to produce your music in 3 professional sound studios equipped to the industry standard. You will receive training on Logic Studio software, and use Avid Pro Tools, Ableton, and Final Cut Pro. Our lecturers have professionally worked in the media industry and gained experience abroad. Most of the staff is involved in various activities of creative industries (composers, sound designers, researchers, technicians, video artists, producers), so their latest practice can be quickly incorporated into the course.
Feedback of lecturer
World standard music production studies in Lithuania, many years of experience, and new opportunities.
Assoc. prof. dr. Tomas Pabedinskas, the head of the Contemporary Art Department, Faculty of Arts, Vytautas Magnus University
Professors
- Titas Petrikis – composer, internationally awarded author of music for cinema movies. A member of the European Film Academy, and Lithuanian Film Academy.
- Yiorgis Sakellariou – internationally active composer of experimental and electroacoustic music. A member of the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association (HELMCA), Associate Fellow of the Advance HE (Higher Education).
- Dalius Nomicas – director of professional music equipment and music instruments retailer “Midiaudio”.
Accreditations
Evaluated as very good and accredited for the longest possible period of seven years by the international expert panel of the Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education.
The covered study areas include:
- Compositional and technical skills
- Research skills
- Exploration of the creative uses of sound manipulation
- Developing knowledge of the critical and contextual language in relation to specific areas of music production, DJ practice, and live performance
- Developing an understanding of recording skills
- Methodology in mixing and mastering
- Examination of industry marketing strategies and their successful application in your business model
- Creating your music promotion and marketing strategies
- Creating a functioning website with an end user in mind
- to become a freelance composer or music producer, sound designer
- to work as an arranger and orchestrator.
- to become a recording engineer and work in TV, Radio, or Freelance
- to become a teacher in music production in the academic/ education system
- to work on other positions in the audiovisual media industry with an emphasis on sound and music
- to pursue studies in Master’s programs within VMU or other universities;