Advanced Diploma in Music Production and Sound Engineering
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Designed by industry for industry, our Advanced Diploma in Music Production and Sound Engineering will push your career in music production or sound engineering to the next level. Our curriculum is founded upon nearly 90 years of experience at Abbey Road Studios. A studio that has developed innovative recording techniques and trained assistant engineers who have since become well-respected music producers and audio engineers in their own right.
During our intensive, one-year programme you’ll learn from the extensive knowledge and expertise created at Abbey Road Studios. You’ll have access to industry-standard recording equipment and studios and be taught by experts including guest lectures with multi-award-winning professionals such as Andrew Scheps, Sylvia Massy, Bernard Butler, Olga FitzRoy, Daniel Boyle, Ricky Damian and many more. In the summer of 2021, we moved into our new home, the historic Angel Studios in Islington, near Kings Cross. When you train with us you become part of a global network in the music industry.
The diploma will develop you as a rounded professional, with technical skills, knowledge and expertise. You’ll be guided with a creative and informed approach to music production and audio engineering and a deep understanding of the music business and how it operates.
AS A GRADUATE OF ABBEY ROAD INSTITUTE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
- Utilise industry standard tools (including DAWs ProTools, Ableton, Logic as well as an extensive array of Plug-Ins and our outboard gear and Custom Neve 75) for creating, performing, recording, editing, mixing and mastering music
- Develop and implement compositional and arrangement ideas for music productions
- Work collaboratively as part of a creative team, maximising group-based projects and outcomes
- Time manage music production projects
- Solve problems through reflection and adaptation of knowledge
- Understand the fundamentals of the music business, including marketing strategies and applications
- Manage your professional career development.
Key Facts:
Duration: 12 months / 48 weeks tuition (2 week holiday in summer & 2 week holiday at Christmas)
Next Open Evening: TBC.
Course Dates:
Monday 2nd February 2026 – Friday 29th January 2027
Monday 25th May 2026 – Friday 21st May 2027
Monday 28th September 2026 – Friday 24th September 2027
Study Mode: Full-time
Qualifications: Advanced Diploma in Music Production and Sound Engineering | NCFE customised qualification| Avid Certified User: Pro Tools.
Course Leader: Carlos Lellis
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An inspiring and incredibly well designed course that gave me the best musical education I could have dreamt of. Life-altering.
David Dargahi, Alumni
The curriculum is fantastic, extremely comprehensive, contemporary and relevant to today’s industry.
Andrea Mastroiacovo, Alumni
It's impossible to graduate from Abbey Road Institute without growing as an engineer, musician, creative professional and most importantly... as a human being.
Ryan Zweng, Alumni
The course taught me what it means to be a producer and engineer in the industry, I learned things I couldn’t have learned anywhere else.
Marta Di Nozzi, Alumni
The Abbey Road Institute helped me to unlock my musical potential.
Cory Lawrence, Alumni
There is some real visionary foresight in Abbey Road Institute being established to preserve the cultural legacy of Abbey Road.