Bachelor of Music and Performing Arts

Thrive in a career in Music and Performing Arts

A career in music and performing arts offers an exciting future within the evolving creative arts industries. Enhance your skills, discover new opportunities, and fast track your creative career through practical and creative learning.

Study the context of music and the creative and performing arts and their unique value to society at large.

Practitioners in the creative and performing arts industry need to be collaborative. Practitioners combine a variety of technical skills in creative thinking, design, music, performance, production and writing. This program will enable you to develop your professional skills and networks as you transition into your career.

Course overview

The degree offers a wide range of courses in areas suited to your own interests across the School of Creative Industries and the University. Depending on your chosen major/s, examples of what you will study include –

• Directing
• Music Recording and Production Technique
• Scenography
• Songwriting and Production
• Sound and Lighting
• Stagecraft

Students have the option of completing a single or a double major in this program. Students completing a double major can choose either a double major from the Music and Performing Arts major options (Double Major Pathway B); or one of the Music and Performing Arts major and one School of Creative Industries (SOCI) Major (Double Major Pathway C).

Admission to our undergraduate degree programs usually requires successful completion of a senior secondary school qualification similar to the Higher School Certificate (HSC), the highest educational award in New South Wales schools.

Applicants who do not speak English as a first language must demonstrate that they meet the University's English proficiency requirement. Further information regarding English language proficiency requirements can be found at the English Language Proficiency for Admission Policy.

In the application portal, you can enter the program you wish to study and upload relevant documents needed as part of your application. It is recommended you submit your application a minimum of 12 weeks before your intended semester of trimester start date.

Successfully navigate and build your career in the music and the performing arts industry. With flexible study options, you can tailor your degree by selecting one or two majors in Music Performance, Songwriting and Production, or the Performing Arts.

The music and performing arts degree enables collaboration between performers, writers and producers. Through engaging in live music and stage performance, combined with studio production through creative project-based assessment. You showcase your work in a variety of venues and presentation styles, as well as collaborate on projects with peers across the performing arts, music, creative writing, composition and creative production.

This program prepares you for a career as a:

• Professional Musician
• Performing Artist
• Theatre Maker
• Composer
• Songwriter
• Music Producer
• Theatre Maker
• Studio Teacher.

It also opens avenues to work in the broader creative industries.