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“The Box Hill Institute degree is so much more practical than conceptual and is actually geared towards a versatile career in the music industry.”
As a teenager, Leigh Irwin was a rebellious young girl who didn’t care for authority or discipline. She left school at age 15.
A new home in Sydney and stints in hairdressing, retail, public relations, fashion, working as a DJ and overseas travel followed before she eventually came back to Melbourne.
Leigh has now embraced the discipline she rejected in her teenage years and won the Box Hill Institute Pursuit of Excellence Award.
The award is given to a student who has shown sustained effort, commitment and passion while studying at the Institute.
The 33-year-old dedicated herself to completing the Advanced Diploma of Music and intends to undertake the Institute’s new Bachelor of Applied Music next year.
“I came to Box Hill Institute because it was my bridge between high school and university,” she said.
“I was too old to go back to high school but because I left school so early I still needed some technical skills and deeper understanding of the musical language before I could go to university.”
She said the Institute had provided such an excellent environment in which to study that she decided to stay to do her music degree rather than attend another university.
“The Box Hill Institute degree is so much more practical than conceptual and is actually geared towards a versatile career in the music industry,” she said.
Leigh has been a DJ for 10 years and is now singing with her four-part harmony a capella group called Satin Dolls.
She has been passionate about music ever since she was a small child.
“In future, I intend to go further into composition and arranging. I’d like to get into musical direction or film scoring which was a career path I could not have even considered if I hadn’t come to Box Hill Institute to study.”
01 August 2005
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