Performance
Qualifications
Overview
For proficient performers, UC offers individual lessons and group classes in a wide range of musical instruments and voice, alongside opportunities to join large and small ensembles and the UC Chamber Choir, Consortia.
Classes are also offered in Conducting for all Bachelor of Music students at 300-level.
How to apply
Entry into the Performance major is limited and based on an application. Applications for Performance courses should be made to Te Kura Puoro | School of Music as soon as possible (no later than 20 September). Early auditions begin the weekend of 22 August.
See the Bachelor of Music for more information.
UC offers a major in Performance as part of the Bachelor of Music.
Your first year will teach you the essential basic skills such as sight-reading music and understanding rhythm and tempo, as well as working with an accompaniment and in small or large groups. You will also develop in-depth technical and performance knowledge for your specific instrument or voice.
Advanced Performance major courses will develop further musical literacy and performance techniques, including orchestral arrangement and conducting, and teaching music as a business.
Students studying other degrees at UC that want to develop technical performance skills in an instrument or voice can choose to take MUSA 143 Performance (Non-Major) 1.
Performance major
To complete a major in Performance within the Bachelor of Music, you will need to take the following courses throughout the degree:
100-level
200-level
300-level
At any year level, students must also choose two of the following:
Majoring in Performance will provide you with essential experience as a soloist and ensemble performer, participating regularly in public performances in Ōtautahi Christchurch city and beyond. Many UC graduates have gained professional positions in orchestras, choirs, musical theatre, and broadcasting. Other career paths include music education, music therapy, and arts administration and leadership.
People with strong musical talents are highly sought after by event organisers and arts businesses.
Find out more about what you can do with a degree in Music.
Contact us
Te Kura Puoro | School of Music
Phone +64 3 369 4411
Email music@canterbury.ac.nz
Location
Music building – see campus maps – and Arts Centre, 3 Hereford Street Christchurch
Postal address
Te Rāngai Toi Tangata | College of Arts
Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand
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