Music Postgraduate Courses
The School of Music – Conservatorium has an excellent record for the successful completion of degrees by our research students. We have vacancies in our postgraduate program and are actively seeking enthusiastic and capable new students to fill them. We offer a range of degrees in our four research priority areas:
If you have a query about postgraduate study in music, please direct your initial enquiries to Dr Kenji Fujimura
Postgraduate Degrees in Music
For details about specific courses of study, follow the links below to the Monash Postgraduate Handbook:
- Graduate Diploma in Music
- Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Research)
- Master of Music (This degree is available to international students)
- Master of Arts
- Master of Arts by coursework and research
- Master of Arts (Music Performance) by coursework and research
- Master of Arts (Music Composition)
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctor of Philosophy (Music Composition)
- Doctor of Philosophy (Music Performance) .
Audition and/or submission information for Performance and Composition
Performance auditions and composition submissions for entry into the School's postgraduate courses can occur throughout the year. For further information regarding auditions/submissions, please contact Dr Kenji Fujimura.
Recently Completed Higher Degrees
2010
- Andrew Duncan, MA in Musicology, ‘Noah Greenberg's presentation of Medieval Liturgical music-drama: A study in expendiency over scholarship’
- Qmars Piraglu, PhD in Ethnomusicology, ‘History and changing styles of the schools of Iranian santur playing from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century’
- Lauren Rubin, PhD in Ethnomusicology, ‘The shakuhachi and the didjeridu: two case studies of historical iconology, performance practice and their relation to avian respiration and song’
2009
- Annette Bowie, PhD in Musicology, ‘Syncretic Korean and Western Elements in Works of Selected Korean and Korean Expatriate Composers 1975-2004’
- Heather Stewart, MA in Pedagogy-Performance, ‘Incorporating Improvisation And Game Play into Beginner String Pedagogy: A Primary School String Programme Case Study’
- Gregory Wernert, MA in Music Composition, folio of compositions: ‘Music and emotions: An investigation into the musical representation of the identified emotional content of poetic text’
2008
- Lliam Freeman, MA in Music Performance (Jazz Guitar), Developing an Improviser's ' Tool-Kit': Exploring methodologies towards the development of improvisational skill and fluency in the performance of original work in jazz ensemble’. Main recital: Lliam Freeman compositions.
- Kenji Fujimura, PhD, ‘Researching Performance: Translations into Editions and Performances of the Forgotten Piano Works of William Hurlstone (1876-1906)’
- Andrew Mathers, PhD, ‘How Theories of Expressive Movement and Non-Verbal Communication can Enhance Expressive Conducting at all Levels of Entering Behaviour’
- Jeffrey McGann, MA in Music Performance (French Horn), ‘Achieving an historically informed performance of William Lovelock's Rhapsody for Horn and Pianoforte: the quest for an English sound’. Main recital: works by Clifford Abbott, Moya Henderson, Helen Gifford, Andrew Batterham, William Lovelock, David Keefe, Paul Stanhope.
- Anthony Pateras, PhD in Music Composition, folio of compositions: 'Exploratory combinations of composition, improvisation and electronics-based on relationships between form and timbre.'
Higher Degree completions prior to 2008 (PDF)