Program:Music
Program | Music | Faculty | School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design |
Credential | BA, BFA | Duration | 4 Years |
Starting Month | Fall, Winter and Summer | Available for | Full-Time and Part-Time |
Program Description:
York’s Music program is a nationally recognized leader in contemporary and traditional music.
Discover a world of music at York. Compose, perform, experiment, record and study in superb facilities across a wide range of musical genres, traditions and settings. Create your own curriculum from courses in instrumental and vocal music, jazz, classical, popular, contemporary, digital and world music, improvisation, ethnomusicology, theory, history, music pedagogy and music media. Program highlights include clinics and master classes led by internationally renowned artists, as well as more than 100 public concerts each season.
Streams of study in the Music Department combine courses in music history and theory, performance, contemporary media and technology, musicianship, composition and arranging, ethnomusicology, and music pedagogy. Performance training focuses on the small ensemble. Private vocal and instrumental lessons are offered with either 24 one-hour weekly lessons for 6 credits, or 24 half-hour weekly lessons for 3 credits.
Music applicants are admitted to the BFA Honours program. Students may apply to transfer to the BA Honours program after successful completion of the first year.
Admission Requirements:
Chinese High School
BA
· Senior Secondary School Graduation Certificate
o Successful completion of the final year of Senior 3/Grade 12 level of student
· A supplementary evaluation is required after you apply for admission. Submit the online component by the deadline for guaranteed consideration to the program.
BFA
· Senior Secondary School Graduation Certificate
o Successful completion of the final year of Senior 3/Grade 12 level of student
· A supplementary evaluation is required after you apply for admission. Submit the online component by the deadline for guaranteed consideration to the program.
Careers:
· Musician
· Composer/Arranger
· Music teacher
· Music director
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