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A Bmus at Mount Allison stresses the professional training of musicians. In this program approximately three-quarters of your courses are in music. Instruction in performance is a central part of the program, with all students taking four years of advanced private lessons. The program is flexible, allowing you to focus on areas of music that best suit your interests and career plans. There are also a variety of extracurricular activities for Music students, including Music for the Cure, the Garnet and Gold Society for musical theatre, ensembles, Pep Band, and a vibrant indie music scene.

Our graduates are in classrooms and on stages across the country and around the world.

Career opportunities are available in:

  • music education (young children/elementary/secondary/university/private)
  • conducting
  • performance
  • composition
  • research
  • music theory
  • musicology
  • music therapy
  • music cognition

See what our Bmus graduates are doing now:

Sally Dibblee: A life in the opera  

Opera singer Sally Dibblee ('88) says all of her earliest memories are musical. She can remember sitting on a wharf as a small child, swinging her feet in the water and singing.

"I have a terrible memory, but I seem to remember lots of musical connections," she says.

When she was in junior high and high school she would be the lead in musicals and sing, along with pianist Anne- Katherine Dionne ('88), at events in her hometown of Woodstock,NB.Her voice brought her to Mount Allison's Music program where she found her love of opera.

"My singing professor, Dr. James Stark, was the one who got the ball rolling for me. He started me on my career
path of today. I give him so much credit for helping shape and find the words that eventually led me to opera stages." Read the full story in The Record

Dr. Nicholas Elderkin - From piano lessons to piano director

Dr. Nicholas Elderkin (‘02) was given piano lessons by his parents for Christmas when he was twelve. Twenty years later, he is an assistant music professor and director of piano studies at Midland College in Midland, TX. He says he always knew he wanted music to be the centre of his life, but it was Mount Allison that helped him discover his path.

“Initially, I thought I would use my music training to open up a music store back home in PEI. After seeing and feeling the incredible enthusiasm my Mount Allison music professors had for their own pedagogical work, I knew that teaching should be my life's work,” he says.

Elderkin says his music education at Mount Allison, and mentoring from Dr. Janet Hammock, was exactly what he needed to prepare him for graduate school. And the social experiences he gained at the University also taught him valuable life skills that he has taken with him to Texas.

“Without Mount Allison I would have never had the courage to continue my educational dreams outside of Canada,” he says. Read the full story