Future Students

Music

The courses are underpinned by four principal areas of study: performance, music language, music education and music literature.

Performance tuition is provided on all orchestral instruments, piano, organ, harpsichord, fortepiano, guitar and voice. Alternatively you may wish to study selected music units as part of another degree course such as the Bachelor of Arts.

You can study Music in a specialist Music degree or as a major in the Bachelor of Arts. The School of Music auditions all students interested in applying to study music and this audition takes place immediately after the TEE exams each year. The audition is not an ordeal! We like to hear two contrasting pieces, and we give a few aural tests. Then we talk with students to see what their plans for future music study might be.

Career opportunities

These days the list of careers open to university music graduates is full of interesting possibilities. Consider just some of the positions held by UWA music graduates: orchestral musicians, arts administrators, community music officers, music producers, radio announcers, concert programmers, professional musicians in chamber ensembles around Australia, freelance composers, university lecturers, music librarians, music teachers and studio teachers. A UWA degree in music is like a passport to a good job in the music profession. It is recognised nationally and internationally and can provide the opening to scholarships, study grants and bursaries for further training or study overseas.