Music

Music at USQ offers a contemporary, cutting edge approach to music creation, performance and scholarship. Our innovative new degree explores music as a living, vital creative practice that embraces contemporary artistic and technological developments. The new Music Program provides solid training in music performance, theory and contextual studies.

Students may choose from these distinct specialised areas:

  • classical and improvisational performance
  • acoustic and electronic composition
  • musicology

The program includes opportunities for tuition in the following performance areas: 

  • piano
  • singing
  • pipe organ
  • upper strings
  • flute
  • clarinet
  • saxophone
  • brass
  • percussion.

Program information

Career opportunities

Music graduates from USQ will be well equipped to pursue a range of career pathways within the industry. These include:

  • solo performer
  • ensemble performer
  • brass and symphonic band
  • repetiteur or accompanist
  • orchestral musician
  • composer, electronic music composer or film composer
  • music scholar
  • musicologist
  • classroom music teacher
  • studio teacher
  • hybrid performing artist or sound sculptor