Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music - Music Performance

Polish your talent for music theory and practice while exploring the arts humanities and social sciences.You will receive a rigorous, high-quality tertiary music education, specialising in performance, composition or creative music technology. In Arts you can draw flexibly from a rich repertoire of 40 majors and minors. You may like to concentrate on the history, culture or language of the music youre playing, or add to your career flexibility with music through theatre, performance, film or journalism. Arts is built around deeply enriching experiences, and via your elective units, offers you four Signature elements through which to develop your unique graduate profile: Global immersion, Intercultural expertise, Professional experience or Innovation capability. This course leads to two separate degrees: Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music. You will gain all the benefits of each degree course (see Bachelor of ArtsBachelor of Music) and be fully equipped to pursue a career in either field separately or to combine the two in your chosen work. As a graduate with a degree in Arts and another in Music you could pursue a career in the arts sector, performance, music instruction or composing, or in interdisciplinary roles, such as production, arts management, policy or coaching.Whether your style nods to Debussy, Meg Mac or is more Kenny Werner, our Music performance study offers the rigour and richness required to put you on the path to professional success in your principal instrument or voice Available to students with strong musical aptitude in classical, jazz or jazz improvisation music performance, students will acquire an assured instrumental or vocal technique and demonstrate performance skills by participating in a variety of ensembles, in addition to solo work. Youll be able to enrich your experience on our international study tours to New York or to Italy, and study at the Monash Prato Centre, immersing yourself in international music and culture, and collaborating with visiting artists. The Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music is consistently ranked amongst the best music schools in Australia, and continues to produce dynamic and creative national and international soloists, and ensemble performers. You will receive focused, individualised attention from accomplished facilitators, as well as inspiring master classes. Staff members and visiting scholars who are leading performers will guide your studies, enabling you to discover and engage your own uniquely creative voice. Youll also study the history of performance style and practice, and undertake electives that further enrich your expertise and experience in jazz or classical music. Studying the history of jazz composition might pique your interest or perhaps chamber music is more your thing. Youll have exciting opportunities to extend your professional network when you collaborate with eminent professionals and visiting local and international artists.

All Monash undergraduate courses require you to have successfully completed a minimum of an Australian Year 12 qualification (or equivalent) and achieve the required academic entry score. Most Monash faculties generally use your most recent studies for admission however other guidelines may apply where your prior qualification may be considered.