Graduate Diploma in Music Performance

Graduate Diploma

Our Graduate Diploma in Music Performance challenges you to reach the highest standards of professional performance. It's a one-year, skill-based degree focusing on traditional approaches to classical or jazz performance.

Key details

Degree Type

Graduate Diploma

Duration

1 year full-time

Course Code

3GD028, 013935A

Intake Months

Jul, Feb

International Fees

$42,500 per year / $42,500 total

About this course

Present programs of major repertoire

Our Graduate Diploma in Music Performance challenges you to reach the highest standards of professional performance. It's a one-year, skill-based degree focusing on traditional approaches to classical or jazz performance.

Study locations

North Terrace

North Terrace Campus

What you will learn

Advance technical mastery within your specialisation.
Benefit from weekly one-to-one lessons with performance staff.
Prepare one major and one minor recital.
Negotiate your own learning outcomes and modes of assessment for an individualised creative project.

Career pathways

You might travel the globe as an orchestral musician. You could grace the stage of every jazz venue in New Orleans and New York. Perhaps you'll curate concerts, teach in private studios or find international stardom as a soloist.

Advance your technical mastery in 1:1 lessons with experts
Pursue dual careers in music performance and education
Gain hands-on experience through teaching practise

Course structure

This program comprises performance tuition through preparation of a major recital, a minor recital and negotiated projects. The recitals provide the opportunity to present a program of works in the major study and may include solo works, chamber music, orchestral material, concerti or accompaniment.

The negotiated projects allow the student to select an activity that complements their major study with negotiated learning outcomes and modes of assessment.

University of Adelaide