Career Possibilities

It is generally acknowledged that the majority of Music graduates are not able to support themselves solely through performance, whether as soloists or members of orchestras or smaller ensembles.  This degree will provide students with broad training in all of those activities that graduates have become involved in order to construct a viable career - studio teaching, coordinating community and school music programs, festival organisation, and managing music events for government and commercial enterprises.

Graduates will be equipped with the relevant marketing, financial and administrative skills for these careers.  For example, they will know how to run an effective studio teaching business, how to prepare an application for government funding, how to put together a budget for a event or project, how to develop a marketing and business plan for a festival; they will have the skills to liaise with the various stakeholders associated with an event or project, and will have general pedagogical skills for teaching in the studio and other related educational settings.

The information published on the Study at ANU 2011 website applies to the 2011 academic year only. All information provided on this website replaces the information contained in the Study at ANU 2010 website.