Bachelor of Music - 251811

Bachelor of Music

251811

Creative and Performing Arts

Graduate as a creative, adaptable 21st century musician. Focus on your chosen specialisation while exploring diverse styles, ensemble work, music theory, and professional practices.

Full time

Course Fee

CSP/$9500 (1st year contribution)

Griffith University - Brisbane City (South Bank)

Start Date

Mar 2026

Duration

3 years Full time

Offer Rounds

23 Dec 2025

Overview Admissions Criteria Student Profile Career Possibilities

Course outline

Join one of Australia’s leading music schools and build your skills to become an adaptable and creative musician, ready to enter professional life. Your educational experience will allow you to focus on your principal musical specialisation, as well as explorediverse musical styles and professional engagement practices (artistry, education, production and leadership). You’ll also engage in collaborative and ensemble work appropriate to your field of study, music theory, critical listening, contemporary music-making practices, and develop awareness of musical contexts. At Queensland Conservatorium, discover your artistic identity as you develop as both a person and a performer in a welcoming and supportive environment. You’ll benefit from our global connections as you learn from, and work closely with, award-winning music educators. You’ll also have opportunities to gain credit for project studies and music industry engagement and internships, so you can transition smoothly into professional life. A wide range of elective courses are also available to deepen and broaden your musical experience, including collaboration with your creative peers at Griffith Film School or Queensland College of Art and Design. For more course information, visit Bachelor of Music at GU.

Griffith University

Note

Griffith University will commence making offers on 21 November 2025, however additional auditions and offers may be considered in subsequent rounds should places still be available.

Majors

Performance: prepares highly skilled, adaptable and creative musicians for the 21st century. Students will develop advanced skills in classical, contemporary or jazz performance.

Contemporary Creative Practices: explores a range of practices in contemporary music creation including composer, digital practitioner, songwriter, and/or sound artist

Production & Entrepreneurship: is for students who seek to envision, materialize and complete musical projects through collaborations between students from any discipline with a focus on the release of produced musical works connected with community and industry.

Community Education and Leadership: for students who are eager to engage their artistic skills and abilities to teach, facilitate, and lead participatory music-making in a variety of community and educational settings.

Fee notes

This is an indicative only amount for first year fees. For further information refer to griffith.edu.au/fees-charges

Other requirements

Important offer advice: Should you receive an offer into this program you will be required to enrol into classes* within a short timeframe. This information will be included in your Starting@Griffith email and expressed in the number of days from the day of issue of your email and is in line with the offer response date in your QTAC offer email. Please note that the number of days can vary depending on when the offer was made. This requirement applies irrespective of whether you accepted conditionally or unconditionally. If you do not enrol* into at least one class for your program by 5pm on the response day your offer will lapse. Lapsed offers are not automatically reinstated and reinstatement is subject to available places. *Enrolling into classes means that you are advising when you are attending class/es. Enrolment must be submitted.

Prerequisites

Applicants must meet the minimum age requirements for admission, see the QTAC website for details.; Audition/Folio (Folio is required for Composition; Creative Music Technology; Production and Songwriting only)

Fixed closing date

Applicants must apply to QTAC, pay their audition fee and submit their phase one video recorded audition or Folio and Artistic Statement to Griffith University by 29 August 2025 to be guaranteed an audition in the first audition round. Applicants who wish to apply after this date may be considered in subsequent audition and offer rounds should places still be available. Late applicants should refer to the Auditions website for information.

Additional entry requirements

Admission to this program requires applicants to upload a portfolio of materials relevant to your artistic identity (eg. performances, compositions etc.) along with an Artistic Statement as the first phase of a two-phase process. Applicants progressing to Phase two will be required to attend an audition and interview. Visit the Auditions website for up to date messaging and information on audition requirements, audition fees and submitting your audition portfolio to the Queensland Conservatorium by 29 August 2025.

Phase two auditions will take place at the Queensland Conservatorium, Brisbane City (South Bank) from 29 September – 3 October 2025. Griffith University will commence making offers on 15 November 2024, however additional auditions and offers may be considered in subsequent rounds should places still be available. Applicants must ensure they order their preferences accordingly; refer to the QTAC website. Applicants must nominate their current specialisation (eg. Instrument, genre, creative output etc.) on their QTAC application and pay the $50 non-refundable audition fee to Griffith University. You may audition on more than one specialisation as part of a single audition.

Applicants may audition as a Performer and/or Creative Practitioner in up to 2 of the following specialisations: Guitar (classical), Harp, Percussion, Piano/Keyboard (classical), Saxophone (classical), Bassoon (classical), Cello (classical), Clarinet (classical), Cornets (classical), Double bass (classical), Euphonium (classical), Flute (classical), French horn (classical), Horns (classical), Oboe (classical), Trombone (classical), Trumpet (classical), Tuba (classical), Viola (classical), Violin (classical), Voice (classical), Contemporary Bass (jazz/pop), Contemporary Drums (jazz/pop), Contemporary Guitar (jazz/pop), Contemporary Piano (jazz/pop), Contemporary Voice (jazz/pop), Clarinet (jazz), Flute (jazz), Saxophone (jazz), Trombone (jazz), Trumpet (jazz), Violin (jazz), Instruments of Indigenous, Asian or other global cultures, Composer, Songwriter, Creative Music Technology and Production.

Griffith Guaranteed Admission Schemes do not apply to this program.

Assumed knowledge

English, English as an Additional Language, Literature or English & Literature Extension (Units 3 and 4, C).

Minimum Selection thresholds (ATAR/Selection Rank) for semester/trimester/term 1, 2025

ATAR/Selection Rank profile for those offered places wholly or partly on the basis of ATAR/Selection Rank for semester/trimester/term 1, 2025

For more information about the ATAR/Selection Rank profile, please visit ATAR/Selection Rank profile explained.

Excluding: The lowest ATAR/Selection Rank to which an offer was made, excluding adjustment factors.
Including: The lowest ATAR/Selection Rank to which an offer was made including any adjustment factors that may have been applied.

Student Profile by Applicant background for semester/trimester/term 1, 2025

For more information about the Student profile, please visit Student profile explained.

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9.3%

Recent secondary education admitted solely on the basis of ATAR/Rank Admitted where both ATAR/Rank and additional criteria were considered Admitted on the basis of other criteria only and ATAR/Rank was not a factor

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128

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85.3%

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All students

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150

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100%

Notes

Career opportunities

Your career opportunities will vary depending on your chosen areas of specialisation. This could include instrumentalist or vocalist; writing or arranging for film, plays, television, concert performance or musical theatre; popular music soloist or band member; producer; music educator; working in recording studios and the music business; musical composition; sound design; careers in games, publishing and performance industries.

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