Rankings of Institute of Contemporary Music Performance

PROS

• Access to some of the best educational music facilities in the country, including recording studios, live performance venues, and top of the range instruments and amplifiers, and much more. In combination with the experienced and knowledgeable professionals that ICMP hires as their teaching staff, students find themselves in the ideal environment for enhancing their musical abilities.
• An important aspect of being a musician today is learning how to market yourself and your projects, and students report that the ICMP provides exceptional music business education, teaching musicians the existing options for how to make a living with their art.
• Being located in London, students at the ICMP often perform at famous venues. This can be a valuable source of experience for musicians, and also a way to make contacts within the music industry that will be useful as they start to build their reputation and career as a professional, reliable musician.

CONS

• A significant cost factor for students to consider is that the ICMP does not provide student accommodation, and this means that most students will have to rent a private flat in London. Due to the high cost of living in this city, this may represent a challenge for some budgets. On a positive note, the institute offers a service on a particular day before the academic year begins, to help students find a place to live.
• Numerous students have expressed that the practice spaces are limited and you have to reserve them ahead of time, due to the high demand for these facilities from the rest of the students studying music.