Study with UNE

Bachelor of Music

For people living in regional areas, often the decision to attend university means leaving home. However, that is no longer the case for music students living in or near Goulburn.
In a groundbreaking initiative, the city’s Hume Conservatorium (HumeCon) has negotiated a teaching partnership with the University of New England (UNE).
This will allow music students living in the Southern Tablelands and Southern Highlands to receive private music tuition locally while completing their music degree online through UNE.

Instrumental and Vocal Studies Program

UNE has developed exciting partnerships with NSW regional conservatoria where students enrolled in the Bachelor of Music can undertake instrumental tuition under the guidance of highly experienced teachers and tutors.

Australia’s premiere provider of online tertiary music studies, this program is unique to UNE; the only regional university in NSW to provide face-to-face music tuition within a fully online Bachelor of Music degree. These partnerships provide local students the opportunity to combine traditional instrumental or vocal tuition with a range of online units in performance, composition, music technology, and musicology, delivered by UNE staff through the online learning platform. Students can take advantage of UNE staff and activities, in addition to participating in a larger music community through the online learning environment.

How does the program work?

Students in the Bachelor of Music can apply to complete a series of instrumental or vocal training units through their local regional conservatorium. Utilising each regional conservatorium’s strengths in instrumental and vocal tuition, each unit incorporates weekly one-on-one instrumental lessons alongside a host of activities provided by the partnering institution. These activities include participation in large and small ensembles, master classes and workshops with world-class special guest musicians, accompanying and/or conducting work, and concerts and public performances. This program supports Work Integrated Learning where students can develop skills in performance management, ensemble development, and community music through their own initiatives with the support from both their host institution and UNE.

The units are offered in Trimesters 1 and 2 to align with the conservatoria’s semesters. They explore the repertoire and essential skills in technique, expression and performance appropriate to the student’s individual development. Students focus on the stylistic and interpretative characteristics of repertoire as well as performance planning, individual preparation, practice, and rehearsal management. Throughout the trimester, students will keep a logbook of performance, practice, planning and rehearsal activities, culminating in a live performance at the end of the unit.

We acknowledge the traditional Custodians of this Land, where the Aboriginal People have performed age-old ceremonies of storytelling, music, dance and celebration. As a traditional meeting place, many first nations peoples came to this region. Underneath our buildings and roads this Land always will be traditional Aboriginal Land. in the same way, all music making genres and practices come from our musical elders, so we acknowledge those on whose skills and wisdom we draw.