Degree Programs

Brandon University School of Music offers a wide variety of degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. New programs include jazz studies and composition.

There are four departments in the School of Music:

• The Applied Department is responsible for the performance program, including jazz studies;
• the Music Research Department is responsible for the honour’s program, including composition;
• the Joint Department of Music Education (administered jointly by the School of Music and Faculty of Education) is responsible for the concurrent and specialist music education programs; and
• the Graduate Music Department is responsible for the master’s programs in performance & literature and in music education.

Each department has a chair – Dr. Leanne Zacharias  is Chair of the Applied Department; Dr. Colette Simonot-Maiello  is Chair of the Music Research Department, Dr. Sheelagh Chadwick and Dr. Sheila Scott   are Co-Chairs of the Joint Department of Music Education, and Professor Kerry DuWors is the Chair of the Graduate Music Department.