OVERVIEW
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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.
Career paths
- Performing soloist
- Chamber musician?
- Orchestral/ensemble player
- Artist agent
- Arts administrator
- Audio engineer
- Chamber/orchestral musician
- Composer
- Concert manager
- Concert soloist
- Conductor
- Contemporary musician
- Digital music composer
- Ethnomusicologist
- Event producer
- Festival or venue manager
- Film score composer
- Interactive music designer
- Jazz musician
- Music journalist
- Music producer
- Musicologist
- Opera singer
- Orchestra manager
- Piano accompanist
- Private studio teacher
- School music teacher
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 have two options, Advanced Coursework OR Honours:
- Advanced Coursework: 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.
- Honours: Develop deep analytical skills and prepare yourself for further research opportunities, such as pursuing a PhD. You will undertake a supervised but independent research project as well as connected discipline-based and/or research-focused coursework. Admission to the honours pathway is subject to meeting the specified WAM and additional entry requirements. Check with your faculty for details.
Principal study areas
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 have two options, Advanced Coursework OR Honours:
- Advanced Coursework: 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.
- Honours: Develop deep analytical skills and prepare yourself for further research opportunities, such as pursuing a PhD. You will undertake a supervised but independent research project as well as connected discipline-based and/or research-focused coursework. Admission to the honours pathway is subject to meeting the specified WAM and additional entry requirements. Check with your faculty for details.
- 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
Why study with us?
Location and facilities
Sydney Conservatorium of Music has the best facilities to study music in the Asia-Pacific region. Close to the Sydney Opera House and surrounded by the Royal Botanic Gardens, the Conservatorium is located at the heart of Sydney’s cultural precinct.
Choice and Flexibility
You will enjoy a range of choices in your degree progression and flexible study options, with the choice to complement your degree with a specialisation of your choice from the university’s shared pool of majors and minors.
Learn from the best
Learn from award-winning scholars and acclaimed?musicians with deep connections to the global arts industry.
Industry opportunities
Throughout your studies you'll have the opportunity to create, collaborate, perform, record and tour among our talented and passionate community. We offer mentoring by industry leaders in your chosen field, helping you create strong?foundations for your career.
Scholarships
Apply for a wide variety of merit and equity scholarships worth $1.5 million annually.
