Master of Music Program; Field: Conducting

Minimum Admission Requirements

• Applicants are admitted under the General Regulations of the School of Graduate Studies. Applicants must also satisfy the Faculty of Music's additional admission requirements stated below.

• Applicants to the MMus program must hold a Bachelor of Music degree in the area of specialization from the University of Toronto with an average standing of mid-B or better over the final two years or an equivalent program and standing from another recognized university.

• Selected applicants must pass an audition.

• Two letters of reference commenting on the applicant's music performance ability, academic ability, and professional promise.

Completion Requirements

• Coursework. Students in choral conducting must complete a total of 8.0 full-course equivalents (FCEs). Students in orchestral conducting and wind ensemble conducting must complete 7.0 FCEs.

  • MUS4200Y Critical Approaches to Music History, normally taken in Year 1.

  • 0.5 FCE selected from:

    • MUS4600H Performance Practices Before 1800 or MUS4606H Special Topics in Performance Practice

    • MUS4610H Analysis and Performance: Music of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

    • MUS4615H Analysis and Performance Practices of Twentieth-Century Music

  • MUS4210H Introduction to Music Analysis

  • MUS4444Y Applied Music I

  • MUS4445Y Applied Music II

  • Students in choral conducting must also complete 4.0 FCEs as follows:

    • MUS4220H Orchestral Conducting I

    • MUS4223H Choral Conducting I

    • MUS4224H Choral Conducting II

    • MUS4225Y Advanced Choral Conducting

    • MUS4230Y Vocal-Choral Pedagogy for Conductors

    • MUS4700H Major Ensemble I (choral).

  • Students in orchestral conducting must also complete 3.0 FCEs as follows:

    • MUS4220H Orchestral Conducting I

    • MUS4221H Orchestral Conducting II

    • MUS4222Y Advanced Orchestral Conducting

    • MUS4223H Choral Conducting I

    • 0.5 FCE: elective

  • Students in wind ensemble conducting must also complete 3.0 FCEs as follows:

    • MUS2203H Development of the Wind Band

    • MUS4226H Wind Ensemble Conducting I

    • MUS4227H Wind Ensemble Conducting II

    • MUS4228H Advanced Wind Conducting I

    • MUS4229H Advanced Wind Conducting II

    • 0.5 FCE: elective

• Two recitals, one in each year:

  • MUS6666Y Recital I

  • MUS8888Y Recital II.

Mode of Delivery: In person
Program Length: 6 sessions full-time (typical registration sequence: FWS-FWS)
Time Limit: 3 years full-time