成功的作曲家要接受音乐过程各个方面的培训，不仅要研究音乐理论和作曲，还要研究音乐历史和乐器或声音的培训。结果，作曲家可以遵循多种可能的职业道路，通常将作曲与音乐创作的其他方面结合起来。这种组合对每个人都是独特的，但所有组合都建立在与生俱来的创造音乐的渴望上。
The Bachelor of Music (BMus) program in Composition offers training and experience to support the development of your personal style. It offers preparation for continued study and entry into the professional music world. Our faculty includes award-winning composers, representing a diversity of styles. Students may study a variety of topics in class and privately: traditional and electronic composition, orchestration and arranging, analyses of counterpoint, style and history. Successful composers undergo training in all aspects of the music process, studying not only music theory and composition, but also music history and training in an instrument or voice. As a result, composers can follow a wide variety of possible career paths, often combining composition with some other aspect of music making. The combination will be unique to each individual, but all build on that innate desire to create music.