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Graduate Degree Programs

Virtual Info Session Dates

Attend a virtual info session to gather additional information on the program and to meet with the director.

Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 6:00 p.m.

Performance

Instrumental

This performance intensive degree is intended for students who hold a Bachelor of Music degree from a NASM accredited institution and have the technical, performance and academic potential to succeed in the field. The curriculum is designed to develop and refine the performance skills of our students by integrating music scholarship, pedagogy, and performance experience to prepare students for careers in performance and/or further academic scholarship.

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Voice

This performance intensive degree is intended for students who hold a Bachelor of Music Vocal Performance degree from a NASM accredited institution and have the vocal, dramatic and academic potential to succeed in the field. The curriculum is designed to develop and refine the performance skills of our students by integrating music scholarship, pedagogy, and performance experience to prepare students for careers in performance and/or further academic scholarship.

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Opera

This degree is intended for students who hold a Bachelor of Music degree from a NASM accredited institution and have the vocal and acting potential to succeed in the field. The curriculum is designed to integrate performance skills, music scholarship, pedagogy, and professionalism to prepare students for careers in opera performance and the broader music theater field or the next level of academic scholarship.

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Piano

The Master of Music degree program is a rigorous, selective course of study for exceptional musicians who have earned a Bachelor’s degree in Music and are committed to excelling in the field. This professional graduate program integrates performance skills, music scholarship, pedagogy, and professionalism to prepare our students for the music careers for the 21st century.

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Composition

The Master of Music degree program is designed to develop technical and musical skills through weekly, hour-long, private composition lessons. Projects will be discussed and carried to fruition with imminent performance in mind. In addition to one-on-one meetings, students are required to participate in the weekly Composers’ Forum. At the forum, students will listen, analyze, spontaneously create, and discuss aspects of music or the field not generally covered in private lessons. Project 21, our composer’s concert series.

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Conducting

The Master of Music in Conducting is for students who wish to further conducting studies begun in undergraduate music degrees from NASM accredited universities and to pursue careers in conducting in both professional and educational settings. Students are afforded multiple opportunities for regular conducting experiences under faculty supervision and with appropriate major ensembles. Masters conducting students declare an area of emphasis--winds, orchestral, choral--but are required to conduct in all areas, including opportunities to conduct in opera and music theater.

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Vocal Coaching

The Vocal Coaching Master of Music program will be open to qualified individuals from a wide range of cultures with a Bachelor of Music degree from a NASM accredited school, emphasis in piano performance or vocal performance with strong piano skills. This program will prepare graduates for successful careers in the field of vocal coaching – either in the world of professional opera and musical theater or in academia.

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Music Theater

This degree is intended for students who hold a Bachelor of Music in Musical Theater or Vocal Performance degree from a NASM accredited institution and have the vocal, dramatic and academic potential to succeed in the field. The curriculum is designed to develop and refine the performance skills of our students by integrating music scholarship, pedagogy, and performance experience to prepare students for careers in performance and/or further academic scholarship.

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