Why make the Bachelor of Music (Honours) program at UQ your first QTAC preference?

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1 Why make the Bachelor of Music (Honours) program at UQ your first QTAC preference? QTAC code:

2 The University of Queensland is a world top 50 tertiary institution

3 UQ - Home of the Thinking Musician The School of Music believes in training Thinking Musicians for life in the 21st century UQ students access worldclass training in music performance, music education, music psychology, composition, musicology, aural skills and music theory UQ students gain experiences and advantages suitable for current and future employers

4 UQ Home of Music Performance

5 UQ Home of Music Performance UQ Music... has a outstanding list of instrumental and vocal lecturers, including those drawn from the Queensland Symphony Orchestra is the only university to hold regular concerts at QPAC. Large-hall performance experiences will be key to your future employability has the most extensive chamber music program in Queensland has ongoing internships with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Musica Viva, Queensland Music Festival, and 4MBS Classic FM to name but a few of its industry partners

6 UQ Home of Music Performance UQ Music... UQ students have this year performed with the Xi an Symphony Orchestra (China), Opera Australia, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Music Festival, Australian Youth Orchestra, Queensland Youth Symphony, Queensland Youth Orchestras, Australian Chamber Orchestra UQ has an enviable record in competitions including the ABC Young Performers Award and the Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition Play in Berlioz s amazing Symphonie Fantastique or sing in Faurè s beautiful Requiem in 2018

7 UQ Home of Music Education

8 UQ Home of Music Education This program is the only dual degree (Hons) offering in Australia to offer this depth of content in music education (over the whole five years) Learn from UQ s world-class education lecturers and researchers Margaret Barrett, Julie Ballantyne and Graeme Morton, as well as from current teachers. Benefit from the international scope of the program, with guest lectures and workshops by distinguished guests from across the globe Graduate with a job: Graduates from UQ s music education program (B.Mus (Hons)/B.Ed) students are highly sought after in schools across Queensland. Learn how to integrate technology into the classroom perform in the UQ Touch (ipad) Ensemble for credit

9 UQ Home of Music Education Learn how to conduct choirs at the highest level, and participate (for credit) in the UQ Chorale. new instruments, and how to teach them. how to collaboratively compose and perform new works UQ music education graduates hold jobs across the globe Learning through practice in schools and learning institutions from the beginning of your studies Benefit from UQ s links with industry in 2017, music education students are designing and delivering learning together with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra Schools Concerts. through the Queensland Music Festival, music education students had the opportunity to teach at the Indigenous Band Camp in North Queensland (as part of the links with the Queensland Music Festival).

10 UQ Home of Music Psychology

11 UQ Home of Music Psychology Graduate equipped with practical skills and knowledge that can support you in careers in music practice, educational, therapeutic and organisational contexts, and postgraduate study in allied music psychology fields This is an emerging area in Australia, but it has well-established roots in undergraduate and postgraduate music psychology programs such as those offered in the UK and Canada Study with newly appointed full-time member of staff, Dr Mary Broughton Mary is one of Australia s leading music psychologists as well as being an active percussionist: a true Thinking Musician!

12 UQ Home of Composition

13 UQ Home of Composition UQ has an award-winning student cohort led by Dr Robert Davidson Robert is the Artistic Director of Topology and has been commissioned to write works for every professional orchestra in Australia UQ composers regularly have pieces performed at UQ venues, including QPAC The UQ Art Museum gives composers the opportunity to compose works reacting to their exhibitions and give a concert in the space UQ student composers have recently worked with Southern Cross Soloists, Queensland Music Festival, Queensland Youth Orchestras, and the Queensland Symphony orchestra

14 UQ Home of Musicology

15 UQ Home of Musicology Study with world-class musicology practitioners and researchers including Dr Denis Collins and Dr Simon Perry A BMus (Hons) qualification can lead to further study (Masters or PhD). Musicology offers one such option. Postgraduates who have gone on to successful academic careers include: Associate Professor Brydie- Leigh Bartleet (Director, Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre) Dr Sarah Collins (Research Fellow, Durham University, UK)

16 UQ Home of Employability A BMus (Hons) degree gives you the necessary skills, knowledge and abilities across a range of possible employment options The School of Music prides itself in helping you to become a Thinking Musician Thinking Musicians are ready to meet the challenges of the 21st century work place