MySydney scholarship fuels metal guitar passion at Sydney Con

Alexander Andrevski, a MySydney scholar from Western Sydney, is pursuing his passion for metal guitar at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He used the scholarship to buy instruments and encourages others to explore new pathways to university education. Studying metal guitar at a prestigious tertiary music school wasn't what Alexander Andrevski was expecting, or planning, when he was in high school in Western Sydney. He was considering a degree in law but worried he wouldn't get the ATAR required. So he turned to his major passion - instrumental progressive metal guitar - and applied for a Bachelor of Music at Sydney Conservatorium of Music. "My goal is to become a professional musician and make my own music and play it live," Alexander said. "In the meantime, I'd like to do private teaching.