Westburn Te Kura O Hereora Specialist Music Programme

Creating opportunities for high-performing musicians to work alongside similarly minded students, guided by tuition from professional musicians.

Applications are now closed for the year.

Enrich Your Music Education at  Westburn Te Kura O Hereora

Westburn Te Kura o Hereora runs the SMP for students in Years 5 – 8. It offers a seamless and coordinated progression of learning from primary school through to secondary school and university. It offers students the stimulus of working with others of similar high musical calibre.

Four Christchurch institutions, situated in close proximity to Westburn, work in cooperation to provide this unique opportunity for musically talented students; Westburn Te Kura o Hereora, Burnside High School, and both the School of Music and College of Education at the University of Canterbury.


Auditions for places in the Specialist Music Programme will be held from 28 August – 01 September.

Applications close on 24 August


Students in action

Albert Cheng

Natsune Yuge

Jason Wang

Carina Du

Hatsumi Yuge

Sophia Yang

Jin Xuan Yeo