What degree or curse should I be considering to become a singer and which institutes are suitable?
Hey,
What type of singing are you interested in? Here’s a bunch of courses that may be good:
UNSW: I’m doing a bachelor of music at UNSW which is a 4-year degree. In the course, you do units on music theory, history and performance. You are able to major in performance from the 2nd year if you get high enough marks.
To get into the course you need to do an online musicianship test which was 30 minutes long and had 40 multiple choice questions on areas such as clefs, notes, scales, triads, chords, score reading and general knowledge. Once I passed the test, I then had to do an online audition which was due at the end of November. This included two contrasting pieces, a reference, music resume, short essay and an unaccompanied short song.
There’s a bit more info
https://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/future-students/undergraduate/degrees/bachelor-of-music/, and
https://www.handbook.unsw.edu.au/undergraduate/programs/2019/3436. Feel free to ask me any questions about this course
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University of Sydney (the Con): The conservatorium runs a bachelor of music, which goes for 3 years. I think it is very competitive to get into though, and would possibly have more of a classical focus. Theres a bit more info here:
https://sydney.edu.au/courses/courses/uc/bachelor-of-music.html If you have any questions about the Con angewina is currently studying there.
University of Wollongong: Bachelor of Creative Arts (Music) which goes for 3 years. One of my friends has just started this course and so far they are going through production, performance and a creative art core subject (that everything doing a Bachelor of Creative Arts is doing). There’s a bit more info here
https://coursefinder.uow.edu.au/information/index.html?course=bachelor-creative-arts-music.
Western Sydney Uni: Bachelor of Music (3 years), I don’t know a huge amount about this course but you could check
https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/future/study/courses/undergraduate/bachelor-of-music.html or
http://handbook.westernsydney.edu.au/hbook/course.aspx?course=1659.4.
AIM (Australian Institute of Music): This is near Central, and they run a bachelor of contemporary music, and bachelor of performance which both go for 3 years. There a bit more info
https://www.aim.edu.au/programs/undergraduate/bachelor-of-music-contemporary and
https://www.aim.edu.au/programs/undergraduate/bachelor-of-performance.
Hope this helps!!