Music: Music Performance MMus; Field: Instrumental

Master of Music Program; Field: Instrumental

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 must complete 7.0 full-course equivalents (FCEs), of which 5.0 FCEs must include:

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

    • MUS4210H Introduction to Music Analysis

    • MUS4444Y Applied Music I

    • MUS4445Y Applied Music II

    • 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

    • Students in brass, percussion, strings, and woodwinds will complete 1.0 FCE as two years of ensemble performance. Placement to be determined by audition.

    • Students in piano solo performance must complete MUS5700H Piano Master Class I and MUS5701H Piano Master Class II.

    • In place of the ensemble performance, accordion, guitar, harp, harpsichord, organ, and piano students will select 1.0 FCE in elective courses from a specified list approved by the department.

  • Two recitals, one in each year. Recitals may include a chamber music component with the approval of the department:

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