Musical arts

About musical arts

If you love music and want to work in this exciting and competitive industry, studying at CPIT offers you many options.

Use your talents to launch a solo career, perform with other musicians or transfer your skills into music production, compostions, arranging, teaching, artist management, public relations or technical roles.

Studying musical arts

Since 1991 the School of Performing Arts has built a reputation as being a focus for excellence in contemporary music education. Our history in jazz, popular and rock music education has produced many graduates who are well established in the music industry in New Zealand and overseas.

The tutors on the Bachelor of Musical Arts are all professionally active performers, composers and arrangers who have a dazzling array of musical experience and achievements from within New Zealand and abroad.

This degree has been designed with flexibility in mind, allowing you the room to expand and develop musically, following your own pathway, but within a structure designed to help you succeed. You'll get the sense of being part of something – a group of like-minded individuals, passionate about music above all else.

At CPIT, it’s not just about learning the theory of music and developing your musical skills - it’s also about learning the universally adaptable skills required to forge a career for yourself out in the industry.

You will have an impressive range of instruments and technical equipment at your fingertips, plus flexible student access to our stunning facilities.

The Bachelor of Musical Arts offers something for anyone with a passion for music, be it jazz, popular music, rock or music production.