CUA30920

Certificate III in Music (Performance Specialisation)

This program enables students to apply a broad range of knowledge and skills in varied work contexts within the music industry. This program prepares students for work in the music industry in areas such as performance, critical listening, music management and music promotions. This course runs the group performance option only.

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Enrolment Type VE1

Waitlist only
Consider this course if.....
  • Already playing an instrument and/or sing, and want to improve as a musician, and perform as part of a band
  • Able to perform in front of an audience
  • Willing to learn music theory to improve your ability as a performer
  • Flexible and able to adapt in a team setting
  • Creative, imaginative and poses artistic skills
  • Interested in a career in the entertainment industry

PREREQUISITES

All students are required to have:

  • Ownership of a musical instrument and evidence that they access private music tutorials on a weekly basis (e.g. letter from their teacher); or
  • Students who do not play musical instruments, but sing, will also need to provide evidence that they attend professional singing lessons.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS/INFORMATION

Students will be allocated to classes to ensure a suitable mix of instrumentalists and vocalists are provided to each group.

This course runs the group performance option only. In Units 3 & 4, students prepare group performances for internal assessment, as well as the end-of-year exam. Students can nominate to complete an internal assessment, or the exam, as a solo-assessed student. 

This must be done in a group setting and negotiated with the trainer. A group setting is considered a performance completed by two or more students. In the solo-assessed environment, this would mean that the assessed student must perform with at least one other non-assessed student.

Program Content

Sample competencies covered in Units 1 & 2 include: 

  • Compose simple songs or musical pieces
  • Develop ensemble skills for playing or singing music
  • Work effectively in the music industry

Sample competencies covered in Units 3 & 4 include:

  • Prepare for performance
  • Develop improvisation skills and stagecraft skills
  • Develop technical skills in performance
  • Perform music as part of a group
Career opportunities
  • Musician
  • Music Technician
  • Singer
  • Songwriter
  • Stage Producer
  • Director
  • Stage Manger
  • Session Musician
  • Performer
  • Band Member
  • Promoter
Work placement

Work placement is not required.

Contribution to VCE/VCAL/Vocational Major

VCE/VCAL/VM: Students may be eligible to receive recognition of at least two units of credit at the Units 1 & 2 level and a VCE VET Units 3 & 4 sequence.

ATAR: Students wishing to receive an ATAR contribution for the Units 3 & 4 sequence must undertake scored assessment for the purposes of gaining a study score. This study score can contribute directly to the primary four or as a fifth or sixth study. VCAL and the VCE Vocational Major do not contribute towards an ATAR.

Information Session

Details regarding the student and parent information sessions for all the VET courses will be published here in August.

Swinburne Senior Secondary College
Unit 1 and 2
Unit 3 and 4

Where and when

Unit 1 & 2

Box Hill Institute
(Full)

Elgar Campus
465 Elgar Rd, Box Hill VIC 3128

Wednesdays

1:30pm - 5:00pm

Swinburne Senior Secondary College (SSSC)
(Full)

505 Burwood Rd, Hawthorn VIC 3122

Mondays

4:30pm - 8:30pm

Unit 3 & 4

Swinburne Senior Secondary College (SSSC)

505 Burwood Rd, Hawthorn VIC 3122

Thursday

4:30pm - 8:00pm

RTO

Box Hill Institute

RTO Number: 4687

www.boxhill.edu.au

COSAMP (College of Sound and Music Production)

RTO Number: 41549

www.cosamp.com.au

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