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Postgraduate courses and admission
Extend your knowledge and technical mastery as a musician
Our postgraduate coursework degrees are designed to prepare you for the music profession, with a strong emphasis on perfecting your professional performance skills.
Course options
The Sydney Conservatorium offers the following postgraduate coursework options:
- Graduate Diploma in Music (Performance)
- Graduate Diploma in Music (Opera Performance)
- Master of Music Studies (Performance)
- Master of Music Studies (Opera Performance)
- Master of Teaching (Secondary)
Your guide to the admissions process
| Audition rounds | Semester | Application closing dates | |
| August (video audition) |
Sem 1, 2 2022 |
12 August 2021 | |
| Sept-Oct (video audition) |
Sem 1, 2 2022 |
19 September 2021 | |
| Nov-Dec (video audition) | Sem 1, 2 2022 | 30 November 2021 |
No December round.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 health considerations, there will be no disadvantage to candidates without accompaniment. We value health and safety first.
Places are limited in each discipline. Please make sure you register your audition and/or interview before the closing date.
Download our postgraduate pre-admission and audition requirements (pdf, 189KB).
No formal audition is required. Your final recital result of an SCM performance award course will be used as the audition for admission, provided the recital takes place within six months of intended admission.
| Program | Course | Intake | Audition requirements |
|---|---|---|---|
| Classical guitar | Graduate Diploma in Music (Performance) Master of Music Studies (Performance) |
Sem 1, 2 | audition |
Classical piano |
Graduate Diploma in Music (Performance) Master of Music Studies (Performance) |
Sem 1, 2 | audition |
| Classical saxophone | Graduate Diploma in Music (Performance) Master of Music Studies (Performance) |
Sem 1, 2 | audition |
| Classical voice | Graduate Diploma in Music (Performance) Master of Music Studies (Performance) |
Sem 1, 2 | audition |
| Jazz performance | Graduate Diploma in Music (Performance) Master of Music Studies (Performance) |
Sem 1, 2 | audition |
| Non western instruments | Graduate Diploma in Music (Performance) Master of Music Studies (Performance) |
Sem 1, 2 | audition |
| Opera | Graduate Diploma in Music (Opera Performance) Master of Music Studies (Opera Performance) | Sem 1 | audition |
| Orchestral instruments | Graduate Diploma in Music (Performance) Master of Music Studies (Performance) |
Sem 1,2 | audition |
| Organ | Graduate Diploma in Music (Performance) Master of Music Studies (Performance) |
Sem 1,2 | audition |
