School of Music
Career Paths
(some of these positions require additional
education and/or experience)
For those who wish to pursue a career in the likes of law or business or innovative technology or many others, music degrees are known to offer a superior training due to the combination of healthy discipline and problem-solving creativity.
Skills Developed
- Musicality: the competence to perform music as it is already known, and the imagination to carry it into what it needs to be next
- Ability to interpret and compose/arrange music well, based in a thorough engagement with music theory and history
- Confidence and nuance in performance, rigorous and energy-giving daily discipline
- Ability to teach and relate well to students with diverse musical experience
- Adaptability and flexibility in carrying out a task
- Competence to understand, memorize and communicate music
- Capacity to communicate well about music to a diverse audiences, both orally and in writing
- Capacity to listen and participate well within the cultural diversity of today's world
- Ability to manage time, carry out research, and organize projects
- Organizational skills
- Appreciation of and interest in cultural diversity
