Follow the sound of music at MSU

MUSIC develops incredibly diverse skills that equip you for a wide range of future career roles.

A career in the music industry is promising, given the increase in record industry revenue with the advent and popularity of digital streaming services.

Additionally, live music concerts are thriving. Whether you, re seeking a career as a producer, a touring musician, or on the business side, you can make a handsome living in the music industry. What kind of jobs are there in the music industry? What can you do with a music degree?

Pave your way to the performance path guided by professors who are professional performers themselves.

That’s three years’ worth of professional musical training informing your performance and developing your natural talent, as well as three years of professional feedback and musicianship building your competencies and confidence.

In your third year, you approach music composition, basic live sound engineering, and artiste management, so you start your music internship in the final year with holistic background knowledge and skills to make it in Music Performance as a modern musician.

You will need to develop competencies in composition as well as harmony, and to familiarize yourself with the music business and its legal aspects such as copyright and infringement.

These you will be immersed in, as you experience music of the 20th and 21st centuries and be exposed to Western music history.

You will also develop competencies in advanced orchestration and arranging, MIDI, and programming; and round up your studies in Music Composition and Arranging with a final-year project as you prepare for internship in your final year on the programme.

Experience sound creation, production, and recording at MSU’s on-campus state-of-the-art recording studio, where your learning experiences include basic electronics and audio chain – common courses to the Music Technology diploma and degree programmes at MSU.

Further to the diploma programme will be the fundamentals to song-writing, and your introduction to basic live sound engineering, sound design, and the digital audio workstation.

On the degree programme, you train in synthesis and sampling, advanced mixing, and film scoring, and encounter the analogue audio workstation.

Responding to the need for skilled human capital in this area of specialisation, the Management and Science University (MSU) through School of Hospitality & Creative Arts (SHCA) offered diploma and degree studies in Music, Music Technology, Music Performance and Music (Composition and Arranging)

Management and Science University (MSU) is a top international university. A known name in higher education, the University promotes excellence and advances quality education, with a culture of industry and entrepreneurship embedded ecosystems, research, innovation, technology within the high performance culture within the university.

With its holistic curriculum promoting entrepreneurship and innovation, the MSU experience in your university education not only connects you with the music industry and its opportunities but will help you take a step-in tune with professional musicianship in the 21st century.

Collaborative, industry- and enterprise-embedded MSU blends global exposure with extensive industrial training to enrich the personal competencies of its graduates. Its global mobility initiatives for student exchange, leadership development, and market immersion empower MSU graduates with the well-roundedness desired and sought after by employers.

As an applied and enterprise university, MSU offers programmes of study at postgraduate, undergraduate, and foundation levels, through connected pathways that admit students from all walks of life and backgrounds.

For further enquiries on MSU’s programmed offered for the coming intakes, please call 03-5521 6868, emailenquiry@msu.edu.myor visit www. msu.edu.my