Programme Description

For over 40 years the Department has provided hundreds of graduates with a practical, creative and intellectual foundation for careers in music and music related fields. Our programme is designed to enable graduates to work intelligently and creatively towards their own areas of special interest.

There are 15 full-time and over 100 part-time and adjunct teaching staff in the Department. Many of them are leading artists and academics. Students accepted into the Department study with scholars and teachers in music theory and analysis, composition, Chinese and Western music history, music education, and performance. Students also have the opportunity to interact individually with outstanding scholars and performers from China and the West. The programme places a special emphasis on the role of technology and computers in various aspects of music, providing students with cutting-edge equipment and facilities. These include the vast array of electronic instruments and recording technology available in the Electro-Acoustic Music Centre, Laboratory for Immersive Arts and Technology and other facilities on campus. Performance is an important part of music education at the Hong Kong Baptist University. The Department of Music provides a rich experience in practical music making. Students participate intensively in solo, chamber and ensemble performance throughout the years of study.

The programme is based on the premise that music graduates should have a common foundation of academic knowledge combined with advanced creative and performance skills. This foundation uses electronic, computer, and recording technologies to support the creative, performance, and intellectual goals of the programme.

Career Opportunities

The intellectual and musical elements of the core and four concentrations are basic to most music-related career options. Graduates have a wide range of employment possibilities in teaching, performance, radio/television, music-related business, arts management and further study. People who enter a music-related profession in Hong Kong are unusually resourceful and entrepreneurial. Throughout a career, an individual's interests and goals may change, but the intellectual and physical disciplines of a good degree in music are applicable to success in many fields in the artistic life of the community.