Music: Music Performance MMus; Field: Conducting

Master of Music (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.

Program 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.

    • 1.0 FCE: 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

    • 0.5 FCE: MUS4210H Introduction to Music Analysis

    • 1.0 FCE: MUS4444Y0 Applied Music I

    • 1.0 FCE: MUS4445Y0 Applied Music II

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

      • 0.5 FCE: MUS4220H Orchestral Conducting I

      • 0.5 FCE: MUS4223H Choral Conducting I

      • 0.5 FCE: MUS4224H Choral Conducting II

      • 1.0 FCE: MUS4225Y Advanced Choral Conducting

      • 1.0 FCE: MUS4230Y Vocal-Choral Pedagogy for Conductors

      • 0.5 FCE: MUS4700H Major Ensemble I (choral).

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

      • 0.5 FCE: MUS4220H Orchestral Conducting I

      • 0.5 FCE: MUS4221H Orchestral Conducting II

      • 1.0 FCE: MUS4222Y Advanced Orchestral Conducting

      • 0.5 FCE: MUS4223H Choral Conducting I

      • 0.5 FCE: elective

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

      • 0.5 FCE: MUS2203H Development of the Wind Band

      • 0.5 FCE: MUS4226H Wind Ensemble Conducting I

      • 0.5 FCE: MUS4227H Wind Ensemble Conducting II

      • 0.5 FCE: MUS4228H Advanced Wind Conducting I

      • 0.5 FCE: MUS4229H Advanced Wind Conducting II

      • 0.5 FCE: elective

  • Two recitals, one in each year:

    • 1.0 FCE: MUS6666Y0 Recital I

    • 1.0 FCE: MUS8888Y0 Recital II.

Program Length

6 sessions full-time (typical registration sequence: F/W/S/F/W/S)

Time Limit

3 years full-time

0 Course that may continue over a program. The course is graded when completed.