Overview
About this course
This combined five-year undergraduate degree offers you the flexibility to pursue your passion in music performance while exploring multiple interests, and the opportunity to distinguish yourself in your final year with advanced coursework or an honours research project.
Who is it for?
This course is for musicians across orchestra, opera, jazz ensemble, or musical theatre performance, with an interest in pursuing multiple interests and extending their skills in high-level study.
Structure
What you’ll study
You will combine your chosen principal study with orchestral studies and chamber music, or other relevant ensemble studies. Other core studies will be in music skills, analysis, history and culture.
The Advanced Studies component will allow you to specialise in a major of your choice from the University's shared pool.
The following areas offer majors and minors in the shared pool (Table S):
- Architecture and Interaction Design
- Arts and Social Sciences
- Business and Commerce
- Education and Social Work
- Engineering and Computer Science
- Health, Medicine and Dentistry
- Music
- Science, Agriculture, Environment and Veterinary Science.
In the final year of your degree, you will undertake advanced coursework where you will enhance your leadership, critical thinking and problem-solving skills and increase your employment prospects. You will undertake challenging coursework and a substantial real-world project individually or in collaboration with other students.
If you would like to study honours and meet the relevant admissions requirements, you will be able to apply for an appended honours degree after completing four years of undergraduate study.
Principal study areas
- Brass (orchestral)
- Drum set (non-orchestral)
- Guitar, organ, piano (non-orchestral)
- Historical performance
- Jazz
- Music theatre
- Non-western music
- Percussion
- Strings
- Woodwind
- Voice (classical)
Costs
Funding
Admissions
Secondary or tertiary qualification
A secondary education qualification such as the NSW Higher School Certificate (including national and international equivalents), OR approved higher education study, including approved preparation courses.
Alternatively, applicants may be granted admission on the basis of:
- having successfully undertaken tertiary studies in music at or above Diploma level to the equivalent of at least one year of study.
A minimum result of 6.5 overall and a minimum result of 6.0 in each band
A minimum result of 85 overall including a minimum result of 17 in Reading, Listening and Speaking and 19 in Writing
A minimum result of 61 overall and a minimum result of 54 in each band